Here’s hoping that Obama is a radical

“I hope Obama really is a closet radical,” wrote columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman. “Not radical left or right, just a radical, because this is a radical moment. It is a moment for radical departures from business as usual in so many areas. We can’t thrive as a country any longer by coasting on our reputation, by postponing solutions to every big problem that might involve some pain and by telling ourselves that dramatic new initiatives – like a gasoline tax, national health care or banking reform – are too hard or ‘off the table.’ So my most fervent hope about President Obama is that he will be as radical as this moment – that he will put everything on the table.”

5 Comments

  1. Regular
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 7:03 am | Permalink

    Observation from “Dirty old men” by actor Burgess Meridith:

    You can wish in one hand, and cr@P in the other. and see which one gets filled first

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-p51fvYLc

  2. Regular
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 7:05 am | Permalink

    Oops, make that Grump Old Men, not Dirty Old Men,

    Although one is just an additional descriptive…

  3. Phantom
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    Desperate times call for desperate measures. Time to re-invent America.

  4. JMWalker
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 10:16 am | Permalink

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    Regular
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 7:03 am | Permalink

    Observation from “Dirty old men” by actor Burgess Meridith:

    You can wish in one hand, and cr@P in the other. and see which one gets filled first
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    . . . which has been the republican mantra for the last eight years.

  5. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 10:18 am | Permalink

    HA! Walker!

    And we all know who did the cr@apping!