Thomas Friedman endorses Kerry....

[obnoxiousdrunk]

Columnists for this newspaper are not allowed to endorse presidential candidates. But I think this election is so important, I am going to break the rules. I hope I don't get fired. But here goes: I am endorsing George Bush for president. No, no - not George W. Bush. I am endorsing his father - George Herbert Walker Bush.

The more I look back on the elder Bush - Bush 41 - the more I find things to admire and the more I see attributes we need in our next president.

Let's start with domestic policy. The elder George Bush was the real uniter, not divider, the real believer in a kinder, gentler political dialogue. Yes, he had a Democratic Congress to deal with, so he had to be more conciliatory, but it came naturally to him. In 1990, the elder Bush sided with Congressional Democrats to raise taxes, because he knew it was the right thing for the economy, despite his famous "Read my lips" pledge not to raise new taxes. While that 1990 tax increase contributed to his re-election defeat, it laid the foundation for the Clinton tax increases, which, together with Mr. Bush's, helped to hold down interest rates and spur our tremendous growth in the 1990's and the buildup of a huge surplus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/opinion/31friedman.html?8hpib

[el_gato]

1. Friedman is a joke, a sad pathetic and unfunny joke

[Brotherjohn]

2. WOW! I knew he had turned the corner somewhat, but this is a slap in the..

...face of George W. Bush!

He clearly DOES say "Vote for John Kerry", although he cleverly avoids saying it in those exact words.

[Nexus7]

3. I know better than to listen to...

this long winded pompous whore. Sorry, I don't mean to annoy you (the DU poster), but Tom Friedman (of "The Lexus and the Olive Tree," which was termed "a long deep kiss to "globalization" by a reviewer) is the kind who you don't want on your side. It is the kind that will damn with faint praise, qualify every endorsement with a thousand little caveats, and are responsible for the wishy-washy attribute that is ascribed to "liberals." I see that he started off with fellating Herbert Herbert. "Kinder, gentler political dialogue," he says. Pshaw. There was a phrase floating around earlier. Yeah, that's it. Fuck you, Tom Friedman.

[featherman]

4. Will this make up for his 3 years of frantic shilling for the neo-con

"dominionism" strategy?
Not in my book.

[cassiepriam]

5. Too late he gets smart.

He was wrong and he knows it.