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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:13 AM Original message |
Thomas Friedman: The U.S. is in Decline |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. "This is all our fault. We accept full responsibility." - Republicons on Truth Serum |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well, if Thomas Friedman said it then it must be true. Barf ...... |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. But he's right at least on the point that the U.S. is in decline..... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe he's preparing us for "shock" therapy. |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yeah, thanks to your dipshit free market policies |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. 34 year low? Interesting, Republicans have been president |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:00 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. The GOP believes that government doesn't work, and every time they are elected, they prove it |
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elizfeelinggreat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
7. Who is this "we" he speaks of? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
8. We can't afford Iraq, we never could. George Bush has driven us to the economic brink. |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. Can we have a Moratorium on Captain Obvious columns. |
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summer borealis (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Exactly |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. He sure is. |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
10. And the fact that the bushes, neocons and republicans have been in charge |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
11. funny how tom 'give war a chance' freidman was all about nation building in iraq in 2003. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:33 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. but hey... they are selling more cocacola in India |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:41 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. i've noticed that some pundits don't mind outsourcing other peoples jobs |
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captainmorgan (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. And the Pope is Catholic |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
13. While I am not a well-known columnist, |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
15. I wish Tom would have to actually work for a living. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
16. Well Gaaaaaw-lee, Mr. Friedman |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:53 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I think we've been thru, at a minimum, 6 Friedman Units (3 years) on the |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:20 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Yes, he's made a living from predicting |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
21. I'll have a better feel for what shape the country is in... |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
22. Something's off here |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
24. So much for the world being flat. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
26. Not that the man on the wedding cake actually relates or cares about thee and thine. . . |
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BlueManDude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
27. The crrokd currently in power will make sure that "Terra" is issue #1 come November. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
28. Hilarious. So the next is election is going to be about the state of the US economy-- |
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