Link have to confess that I've been very impatient with NYT columnist Thomas Friedman for many years. He often seems to have it out for Americans who don't marry as well as he did. Those of us who actually have to do something productive with our lives in order to enjoy food, clothing and shelter are regularly scolded by the wealthy columnist for our attachment to good-paying jobs he'd rather see Indians or Chinese prisoners doing for pennies on the dollar.
I can't argue with his column on Obama too much, though. Perhaps he's isolated enough to believe that Obama's global appeal is actually a good selling point to an increasingly xenophobic American electorate. I happen to agree that the good will generated by an Obama presidency would entirely overcome what has happened to our standing in the world since we took Friedman's advice on invading Iraq with Bush at the helm.
I remember clearly Friedman wagging his finger at students in 2002, saying, "Just because Bush says it's true doesn't mean it isn't." That was his justification for advocating war with Iraq, the notion that not every single thing Bush says is a lie calculated to benefit Cheney's (and Friedman's) stock portfolio.
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