MARCH 11, 2008 --

New York Times columnist wrote, March 7, that Democrats should "focus on economic anxiety"  -- and not Iraq -- to get elected in November.  Mr. Krugman makes it clear that he believes Senator Clinton would be better served by "economic anxiety" than her party rival Senator Obama.  LPR has no reason to believe, of course, that Mr. Krugman seized on the "anxiety" factor having read LPR's recent remarks on the matter.

And Still More on Anxiety

LPR recalls once reading in The New York Times that Karl Rove thought President George W. Bush was a populist.   Mr. Rove, once a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President Bush, has joined the the inside-the-media punditry club, with a regular column in Newsweek and, LPR sees, an op-ed piece in the March 6 Wall Street Journal.   

(LPR has a hunch that, like politicians, media insiders are not much afflicted by economic anxiety.")   Mr. Rove's column discussed the revived candidacy of Senator Clinton and the impact of candidacies on the chances of the other side.   Mr. Rove did remark that Senator Obama's candidacy is "inspiring, but nearly substance-free."  LPR wonders if Senator Clinton's campaign is, largely, entitlement-based.

During the 2000 president campaign, LPR wrote several times to Mr. Rove and received two responses. LPR continues to be affected by anxiety, but remains willing to write to Mr. Rove and let him know about causes of economic anxiety that continue us down the path of "Them (the pols) and Us (the people)" politics.