Thomas Friedman. Wow.

[D-Backs Hack]

If the Bushies have lost Friedman ("The next six months will tell the tale in Iraq," every six months), then they've lost . . .

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/opinion/03friedman.html?pagewanted=print

George Bush, **** Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.

They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry — a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service — and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.

Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, “They must think I’m stupid.” Because they surely do.

Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century — to bring out the best in us. His “genius” is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our country’s health, prove him wrong this time.

A great column, Tom, but never, ever, forget: You, the rest of the punditocracy and the ****-for-brains Washington press corps let the last six years happen.

 

[zeke12]

I used to love Tom Friedman.

And I still think he's a talented writer and a solid thinker.

But you're right, a lot of this is on him. His biggest fans consider themselves independents and moderates, and he bought the story and sold it better than the administration did.

He'll have to live with that, I guess.

 

[Ace]

Typical liberal media Bush bashing.

 

[Point of Order]

strong.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Pretty hard column to refute.

Especially coming from a guy who tried to give Team Bush every benefit of the doubt.

He taps into a lot of the things I've been thinking over the past few years.

 

[heyabbott]

Typical liberal media Bush bashing.

ATYPICAL.
Well written, logical, factually supported, passion restrained by intellect.Definite Page2 material

 

[Double Down]

I'm sort of ashamed to admit that Friedman made me believe in the Iraq war because of Longitudes and Attitudes. I'm not sure you can overstate how many people he managed to get on board for this boondoggle. It's a good column, and he's absolutely right, it's just two years too late.

I think the most damning part, for me, is about how Rove is not a man who has ever made any attempt to unite the country around ideas for renewal in the 21st century. Instead, he sold just enough cigarettes to win. That may be this administrations biggest failure, when it's all over. They've turned all of us into cynics. Instead of finding our common ground, all we do is squabble over our differences.

 

[JR]

Even when I disagreed with him, I've always been a huge fan of Thomas Friedman---going back to his book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" to his "World is Flat" and his NYT columns.

This column is bang on.

I wonder how Fredo's Fellow Travellers around here will refute it.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

A great column, Tom, but never, ever, forget: You, the rest of the punditocracy and the ****-for-brains Washington press corps let the last six years happen.

Like the chimpmeister, he's far too arrogant and stubborn to ever concede that he was misguided about anything.

 

[heyabbott]

A great column, Tom, but never, ever, forget: You, the rest of the punditocracy and the ****-for-brains Washington press corps let the last six years happen.

Like the chimpmeister, he's far too arrogant and stubborn to ever concede that he was misguided about anything.

He has admitted his error in judgement in the past. Which is why he is a grown up, unlike the post adolecent cheerleader in chief

 

[jgmacg]

The mustache of truth at last recants.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

No, it's a pretty easy column to refute. But you morons can't see that.

 

[JR]

Fire away, Lyman.

Refute to your little heart's content.

 

[heyabbott]

No, it's a pretty easy column to refute. But you morons can't see that.

Mission Accomplished. Iraq Oil Profits have paid for the War. Osama's head on a plate. WMD's successfully removed from Iraq. The Road to Bagdad is now only the name of CBS's Final Four Show in 2008.

 

[JR]

No, it's a pretty easy column to refute. But you morons can't see that.

Mission Accomplished. Iraq Oil Profits have paid for the War. Osama's head on a plate. WMD's successfully removed from Iraq. The Road to Bagdad is now only the name of CBS's Final Four Show in 2008.

****, I forgot about all that Abbott. Maybe Lyman's right after all.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Day late. Dollar -- and 3000 lives - short.
Good column, though.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Folks, you have got to start reading between the lines. This column was a message from the conventional wisdom and the Establishment for which it stands. Whatever happens on Nov. 7, the caregivers are coming to take W's toys away and put him down for a two-year nap.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Jim Baker?
Call on line 2.

 

[heyabbott]

Jim Baker?
Call on line 2.

Tammy Fae Bakker on line 1

 

[Ace]

No, it's a pretty easy column to refute. But you morons can't see that.

Rest easy, Lyman. I already refuted it for you. I put it down as typical liberal media Bush bashing.

I mean, anyone can see it. Bush and friends were bashed. Right?

You can put down the crayon now.