Hillary Clinton Supporter Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

In my earlier post today, I lamented the fact that Hillary Clinton, the best qualified candidate to lead the country out of its current financial crisis, was forced out of the Democratic race by the DNC and its media allies. It was especially gratifying to learn later today that Princeton professor and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Hillary Clinton supporter, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Krugman was a strong Clinton supporter throughout the Democratic primary. He argued consistently that Sen. Clinton’s health care plan was far superior to Obama’s and most likely to provide universal health care insurance coverage for Americans.

Unlike the aforementioned DNC and its media allies, Krugman spoke out against the rampant sexism of the Democratic primary. In the aftermath of Clinton’s concession speech, he posted at his blog, the Conscience of a Liberal (NY Times):

“The 2008 campaign has been a very disillusioning experience for a lot of people. You can make a very good case that Barack Obama was the right person for the Democrats to nominate, and Hillary Clinton the wrong choice. But the way we got there was terrible. The raw sexism, in all too many cases coming from alleged progressives — see above — was part of it. So, too, was the inability of many alleged progressives to see that the news media created the narrative of Hillary Clinton as race-baiter in much the same way that, 8 years ago, they created the narrative of Al Gore as congenital liar — by assembling a montage of quotes taken out of context and willfully misinterpreted.

“This whole story shouldn’t affect peoples’ votes in the general election: there are huge substantive issues at stake, and a wide difference between the candidates on those issues. So this is no time for a protest vote. But 2008 was definitely the year in which the progressive movement lost a lot of its innocence.”