Tom Friedman Should Hang Out (Up?) in His Closet for A Few Days

[mathpol]

“Radical in the White House” is the title of an over-the-top column by Thomas Friedman in today’s New York Times. Early-on he states:

“Indeed, dare I say, I hope Obama really has been palling around all these years with that old Chicago radical Bill Ayers. I hope Obama really is a closet radical.

Not radical left or right, just a radical, because this is a radical moment.”

Friedman is confusing “radical”, the adjective, with “radical”, the noun. Here is the comment I posted.

You hope that Obama has been palling around with Bill Ayers? All radicals are not alike. Your “gee-whiz” attitude has become “cheese-whiz”. In any case, what you want President Obama to try to accomplish is fully within the law, not outside the law, as Ayers once operated. Overturning the status-quo is a far cry from overthrowing the government. The term “Radical President” is better applied to the new ex-President, George W. Bush.

Your hope that Obama is a “closet radical” demeans him. He has been very forthright about what he wants to accomplish. I think you should go to your own closet and hang out (up?) for a few days until you simmer down.

[endarkenment]

1. Actually as Friedman is in the midst of renouncing his neoliberal

orthodoxy along with his neocon idiocy I think we should both humor him and encourage him.

[bemildred]

2. More intellectual pablum from Tom. nt

[underpants]

3. Great just perfect

This is the reason DU is so great. You added a true pearl.

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[mathpol]

4. Your Compliment

Thank you.