[mabelkitty]

I often begin writing columns by interviewing myself IT'S ALL ABOUT MEE!!!! See ya in 2006.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Well, at least he's not bitter.

[Paul Atreides]

I often begin writing columns by interviewing myself.

I bet that's not all he does himself.

[Darkwolf377]

The MSM seem unaware that when their boy Billy won by 43% and 49% they never, ever talked this way about "division".

[Max Combined]

Boring!

[M-cubed]

Wow!..where to start!

[Batrachian]

"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? Is it a country where religion doesn't trump science? And, most important, is it a country whose president mobilizes its deep moral energies to unite us - instead of dividing us from one another and from the world?"

No, no, no and no.

You got that? Now get your whiny liberal ass on that plane to Paris before I get mad.

[hlmencken3]

Actually, just ONE of two nations is "under G-d". The other is careful to keep G-d out.

[wizardoz]

... we disagree on what America is.

He's beginning to catch on.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

We can write books about how fringe these Marxists are.

But in the end, it still boils down to one word:

Clueless.

Blue America didn't learn a lesson after 2000. Blue America didn't learn a lesson after 2002. Blue America will not change one thing after 2004. Oh, wait! They will change! Yes, they will seek advice from even more radical extremists from the left so they can be "better prepared" to fight Red America in 2008. Clueless!

[mtngrl@vrwc]

What an idiot Thomas Friedman is! Good read.

[11th_VA]

But what troubled me yesterday was my feeling that this election was tipped because of an outpouring of support for George Bush by people who don't just favor different policies than I do - they favor a whole different kind of America.

This from the party that constantly sceams "EVERY VOTE MUST BE COUNTED" (as long as it's a RAT vote?)

[so_real]

We don't just disagree on what America should be doing; we disagree on what America is.

Finally! It sinks in!

[digger48]

Am I in a parallel universe?

[speedy]

How much fun would it be to have been hanging out inside the NY Times newsroom the past few days? They're each taking their turns with primal screams.

[PLK]

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? Is it a country where religion doesn't trump science? And, most important, is it a country whose president mobilizes its deep moral energies to unite us - instead of dividing us from one another and from the world?

The most striking thing about this commentary from a liberal, those folks who claim an understanding of the "complex," is the simplistic, immature, concrete nature of the thinking on display here.

I don't subscribe to or read the NYT, but am astounded at the level of simplistic logic displayed in this piece.

[gatesbrown]

New career opportunity for windbag Friedman: Thanksgiving Day Parade float.

[SteveMcKing]

Someone said this. Can't remember who...

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......

[The_Media_never_lie]

It is important to hear Thomas Friedman rant in order to realize he is not the unbiased, tolerant journalist he portrays himself to be.

[PetroniusMaximus]

***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.