Paul Krugman: "Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history."

By Robert Wenzel

Paul Krugman is out with an essay at Rolling Stone on President Obama. It is only one note short of being a full hagiography.

If one were to show the essay to any well-read person, without any indication that the piece was published by Rolling Stone and written by Krugman, the person shown such piece would most certainly guess the paper was a rushed work by an over enthusiastic high school freshman, with above average potential to become an eventual high school geography teacher.

There is no indication that the author of the paper has any