Renewing his monthly membership in the slow-learners club, Tom Friedman of the NYT was asked by CNN's Howard Kurtz if the media was duped by the Obama hype:
“Way too soon to tell that kind of thing, I think,” Friedman said. “I think if — look, what have I been calling for, you know the president to have — I think there is, we just so desperately needed a grand bargain that involves restructuring of debt, raising of taxes, cutting of spending and investing in the sources of our strengths as a country from everything from infrastructure to government-funded research to education. It’s so clear that’s what we need. My personal frustration with Obama has been that while he certainly tried that grand bargain for a little bit, it just kind of went away. Well, it didn’t on the work. He said [House Speaker John] Boehner backed out. I don’t know who backed out.”There you have it, liberal thinking in a nutshell. Apparently three years of American decline is not enough for Friedman. Liberal media elites get exempted from real world outcomes-it comes with the insular progressive worldview and the imperative that nothing shall intrude on the fineness of one's moral weave.
Fortunately there's evidence even those wonderfully inattentive independent voters who gave Obama the keys to the once free world are finally waking up. Obama is polling dismally across the board. His administration is amateurish and in disarray. Desperate to claim any victory, the White House outed Seal Team Six after the bin Laden hit despite the necessity to keep our highest level covert operations, well, covert. Majority Leader John Boehner made Obama reschedule his "jobs" speech to Congress because it conflicted with a scheduled republican debate (don't lose that backbone, Mr. Speaker).
Speaking of job creation, it's at an all-time low with no new jobs in August for the first time since, wait for it...1945. That was the end of WWII, for those suffering from a progressive education.
By the way, for the first time in our history we lost our triple AAA credit rating.
Meanwhile, we're killing former Gitmo inmates on the battlefield; Gunwalker killed far more people than Watergate ever did (Watergate, none) and yet the presidency survives; and Obama "leads from behind" in Libya, where the combined might of the EU and the United States took six months to push Gadhafi and his fourth rate military from their holes in Tripoli.
But back to what's really important, Friedman did mention his personal relationship with Obama:
“Yeah, anytime you spend four hours with the president, either with a spoon in your hand or a golf club in your hand or nothing in your hand or nothing in your hand — you learn something,” Friedman said. “If he invites you to lunch — anytime you get a chance to talk to the president in any context I find incredibly beneficial.”If by some freak of nature Obama gets re-elected, that sucking sound you'll hear is the wealth of tax paying Americans going to poor, fat people, while the average working man is likely to have a tin cup in his hands.
