Posted on 11/04/2004 7:44:03 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
New career opportunity for windbag Friedman: Thanksgiving Day Parade float.
Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
I wonder what he meant by it......
LOL
He must be reminded of the fact that it was the country which voted for the issues he now is bitching about.
Thomas Friedman's own mother rues his scatter-brained take on America and Israel!
It is important to hear Thomas Friedman rant in order to realize he is not the unbiased, tolerant journalist he portrays himself to be.
LOL. I am pushing the term "crush depth", which is when the old media reaches the tipping point when no one really cares what they write or think. My guess, early next year. I watch tv now to laugh at cnn, msnbc, and dan rather. They are so very clueless. Hey, what about a FNC - 2 or 3?
***Is it a country that does not intrude into people's sexual preferences and the marriage unions they want to make? Is it a country that allows a woman to have control over her body? Is it a country where the line between church and state bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers should be inviolate?***
Reading this I feel a sense of vertigo as if I had walked into a room with a person it it who spent his whole life living upside down - hanging from the ceiling.
What we think is good, they think is bad - what they think is good, we think is bad.
Ah yes, this is the sweetest of them all for me. The epitome of the intellectual elite. The king of moral relativism. The man who's mental machinations remind me of watching a game of ping-pong (did that give me away). The man who knows the game has to be changed in the middle east (through democracy) but does not have the courage to do what it takes to make it happen. The man who thinks everything would be OK if we just kowtowed to the world and accepted the world court and Kyoto, realizes everything he stands for has just been repudiated by the American people.
Like apples Tom? How do you like them apples?! I see many more foreign road trips in your future.
Could someone forward THE SAMARITANS HOTLINE number to the NYT real fast??!!!!
Wait, on second thought . . . . . don't bother!
***They will not recover as a party until they again have candidates who can speak to those moral and spiritual yearnings - but turn them to progressive purposes in domestic policy and foreign affairs." ****
The faithful will smell your wolfish breath under your sheep's cloak!
I can't believe how brazen these folks are. He basically said, "To manipulate them to your purposes, tell them what they want to hear but change the meaning."
The difference is that Conservative worship Yaweh, the great I AM while liberals worship government.
Reference to the President's stand on embryonic stem cell research, I'm sure. Wonder if Friedman feels the same way about Josef Mengele's 'research' on Jewish children? After all, wasn't that done in the name of science?
I only have to words for you Mr. (liberals)Wanna be Sec. Of State.
FU-Q!!!!!
The only thing you prove with your air headed statments is you have no idea about how the MAJORITY of this country believes. Keep writing your crap in your liberal rag, it keeps us motivated to turn out in droves to reject you, and your kind!
I hate him and I can say that because I was introduces to his writings only in the lead up to the Iraq invasion and really admired what he wrote then. But he has much in common with his failed candidate Mr. Kerry for when the going gets tough the libs get scootin their whiney asses to cover from which they can more safely criticize the DOERS.
Does he complain that Kerry sat his white butt in black churches for weeks before Nov.2nd. I think libs really have no problem with hypochrisy. its a matter of self-recognition and they are comfortable with that. I meam, how else can one live with the selfcenteredness that defines the Left while spewing demagogic egalitarianism.
Plus the "I support the troops in this Failed war" is the ultimate insult to both the military and my intellegence. OReilly is just as disgusting in this respect. These people call for war and expect a movie. My dad used to stupidly rib me when I was a kid, "You're allowed to get in the pool but you can't get wet". Have these "writers ever studied history? Their ignorance to the nature of war and its costs nauseates me. They continually say that we have battleships in the area. There hasn't been a battleship in the fleet for at least 10 years. I remember a reporier in Mogadishu observing just before the marines landed. An F=14 with a recce pod came over at slow speed. wings full forward. dropping Mag IR decoy flares. The reporter seeing this said, "Yes its an American bomber and hes circling to show everyone that he means no harm and look, look, they are dropping fireworks to celebrate their arrival". I kid you not. Awgghhhh... I cant write anymore, they make me sick.
It's a good thing this clueless jerk has nothing to say about our foreign policy.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, forsooth.
I wonder if, according to Friedman, it would be okay for a person to oppose abortion, or same sex marriage, or stem cell research, if they were atheists and did not base those views on religious convictions.
If you're an atheist or a secular humanist, it seems perfectly acceptable for you to have and espouse all kinds of opinions regarding social issues. But, heaven forbid, if you base your opinions on social issues on your religious beliefs.
This column reveals that people of the ilk of Friedman don't have the first clue as to what motivates people of deep faith who put obedience to God first in their lives. He probably doesn't know or associate with anyone like that. It's an amazing thing.
The post mortem on this election is showing very clearly that the "deep" divide in the nation is between those who believe in God and those who do not.
Like Rush said two years ago...."It's time to salt the soil and plow it under"!!!!!!
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