NYT - Tom Friedman - Who will tell the people ?
We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents' generation -- work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means -- have given way to subprime values: "You can have the American dream -- a house -- with no money down and no payments for two years." ............................ Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is "toughening up" Barack Obama so he'll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don't need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House bedroom. I'm voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV -- at 8 p.m. -- from the White House East Room. Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
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Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is "toughening up" Barack Obama so he'll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don't need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House bedroom. I'm voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV -- at 8 p.m. -- from the White House East Room.
Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
I like the idea that America's values are asian ones, which must come as a surprise to the NYT's predominantly white european-american readership, but that's a different discussion. Nevertheless it's a remarkable column, a truthful column. keep to the Fen Causeway
I'm voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV -- at 8 p.m. -- from the White House East Room.
The "toughening up" argument is idiotic, and it's only allowed to fly because of the fact that Obama can't, politically, come out and say something to the effect of, "Yeah, she's an ugly, right-wing bitch," for fear that her supporters will wet their pants over the imaginary sexism they see coming from he and his advisors. Clinton's goal is to destroy him for November in order to have another chance in 2012 (and, granted, she'd almost undoubtedly get her ass kicked again, but at least there'd be a shot). Arguments to the contrary are, I'm afraid, the stuff of fantasy. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
it clearly fixed him.
The pie maybe? Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
Sounds something like Sarkozy.
