I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I read Tom Friedman's piece in the NY Times.
Instead of his usual insipid shilling for corporations and his far flung and often ridiculously rosy theories on the world economy, he honestly summarizes and confronts the problems we face, while throwing a nice bouquet to President Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
I’m worried. We’ve just elected a talented young president with many good instincts about how to propel our country forward, extend health care to more people, make our tax code fairer and launch a green industrial revolution. But do you know what I fear? I fear that his whole first term could be eaten by Citigroup, A.I.G., Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and the whole housing/subprime credit bubble we inflated these past 20 years.
Sounds like Mr. "Suck on this" is getting a little nervous and might be getting his dinghy ready to make the 90 mile trip from the dark side to our more reasoned shores.
If that is the case, we welcome you, Mr. Friedman. We can always use people that can think, and it seems like you've been doing some.