Help Wanted: Leadership

[rsmith6621]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/Friedman-help-wanted-leadership.html?_r=1

TO Barack Obama, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Cantor, I just have two words of advice: Herbert Hoover.

I know you’re all familiar with that name. Hoover lives in infamy in U.S. history for having been on duty when the Great Depression happened. You’re all courting a similar fate. Your collective behavior is setting all of you up to be known as our generation’s Herbert Hoovers — the leaders who were on duty when we entered our second great economic meltdown.

But unlike Hoover, who was just practicing the conventional economic wisdom of his day when we fell into the Depression, you have no excuses. We know what to do — a Grand Bargain: short-term stimulus to ease us through this deleveraging process, debt restructuring in the housing market and long-term budget-cutting to put our fiscal house in order. None of this is easy and the economy will not be fixed overnight; it will take years. But there is every chance it will get healed if our two parties construct the Grand Bargain we need.

[librechik]

1. friedman can bite my fat white ass--Obama has a jobs bill out there

unlike any of the Repubs. Open your eyes, Friedman. THAT is leadership, at least that's as close as we can come thanks to dipshits like you.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. IOW, Mr Friedman, Obama needs to adopt the already failed Republican

methods of tax cuts, entitlement cuts, and austerity measures, or he will be blamed for the next depression.

Fuck off, Friedman.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Written by Tom Friedman....

Really?

He's an expert on leadership now? :wow:


This Friedman?

Media Matters: Classic Friedman
Liberals have waited and waited in vain for New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to issue a sincere apology for his vocal support of the Iraq war in its lead-up and aftermath. No voice of left was more responsible for creating the atmosphere which provided cover for spineless Democrats to endorse a misguided and illegal war, despite the fact that they held the majority in the Senate. Instead he grapples and rationalizes his support and tries to find rays of hope in the disaster that is the reality of current U.S. Foreign relations.
http://www.cudemocrats.com/archives/158


Tom Friedman: Wrong. Again.

Tom Friedman has been wrong before about the major issues of our time. He supported "globalization" and apparently still does, even though this is finally being revealed to be not at all about "free trade" (e.g., U.S. sugar), as some observers have known for quite some time. Rather it is about the free export of capital to places where it can make a lot more profit for its owners than it could in the U.S. Tom Friedman originally supported the War on Iraq, even though he wasn't sure about WMD.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/079