Friedman: The Chant Not Heard

The New York Times ^ | 11/30/03 | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

[At _War_With_Liberals]

This jerk thinks he is a visionary Dim for not walking off the cliff with communists in England. He feigns moderation every 10th article, and even impresses some RINOs.


"I have great sympathy for where the left is coming from. And if I didn't, my wife would remind me."

Effeminate little bitch. Telling the world what to think daily... yet submissive to his wife to the point of letting her believe and advocate falsehoods and lies. The gratuitous "She's the boss" BS.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Well said. Bravo.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"I liked this column."

Stockholm syndrome.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Liberals are ranting and raving crazies, and they will succeed in the battle for the WH as well as a ranting and raving crazy would succeed in a regular battle-- which is to say, not very well. It's part of Rove's strategy to keep the left from thinking rationally.

[RichInOC]

I thought that the one chant that was missing at London's anti-Bush demonstrations was "We're s**te and we know we are...we're s**te and we know we are..."

[tommix2]

Hey, you guys, he has to write something whether he has anything to say or not. And he works for the NYT, so he has to toe the party line. And he has a wife to support. What do you expect?

[jackbill]

I don't share Tommy's understanding of the left.

I believe that I saw Friedman on C-SPAN admitting, when asked about his "politics", that he best fit the Democratic Socialists of the European mold.

[SuziQ]

Which is why the sign I most hungered to see in London was, "Thanks, Mr. Bush. We'll take it from here."

Oh yeah. They've done such a good job in the world so far. /sarcasm

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Show no mercy to leftists, EVER.

[driftless]

Here's a typical Friedman column since the war started. He knows that our course of action is just, but he can't get past the fact that it's Republicans doing it. So he has to rain on the parade at every opportunity even though he supports it. My own opinion is that the Dems couldn't organize a good vomit contest after eating maggots (sorry for that image). Which is what their party is full of.

[InterceptPoint]

What Friedman doesn't understand is that liberals hate Democracy and love totalitarianism. That is the single defining element of all the anti-war protests of the last 50 years. The protestors love socialist dictatorships and hate capitalism and freedom.

[little jeremiah]

And I guess he'd be considered one of the more moderate liberals, since he didn't like some of their signs?

This comment really made me gag:

Moreover, the Bush team is such a partisan, ideological, nonhealing administration...

Excuuuse me - non-HEALING???

Is that supposed to be a function of government? I thought doctors, nurses and acupuncturists were into healing!

[little jeremiah]

My own opinion is that the Dems couldn't organize a good vomit contest after eating maggots (sorry for that image). Which is what their party is full of.

ROTFLOL!!!! Love it!!

[rhombus]

Some of the left is starting to see their impossible position. I disagree with Friedman about those that favorted the war not understanding the subltety of the terrorism problem. I would counter that those on the left don't understand the simplicity of the problem -- a world-wide fascist movement has been using a religion that already preaches intolerance to accomplish their political goals. Don't they remember genocide? Don't they remember torture, terrorism? One doesn't wait until the Huns are at the door, one hunts them. I respectfully would thank Thomas Friedman of the NY Times for his honesty about the left and the importance of Iraq. I would also respectfully remind Mr. Friedman that until the left understands some of the simplicity of opposing terrrorism, they are not ready to "... take it from here."

[Lisa Lupner]

On Iraq, there has to be more to the left than anti-Bushism. The senior Democrat who understands that best is the one not running for president — Senator Joe Biden. He understands that the liberal opposition to the Bush team should be from the right — to demand that we send more troops to Iraq, and more committed democracy builders, to do the job better and smarter than the Bush team has.

Joe Biden?

THE Joe Biden who referred to the US as bullies, for utilizing our no-nonsense approach in Afghanistan?

He sure must be a quick study.

[Lisa Lupner]

Good post.

[Hostage]

Moreover, the Bush team is such a partisan, ideological, nonhealing administration that many liberals just want to punch its lights out — which is what the Howard Dean phenomenon is all about.

BRING IT ON!

[ontos-on]

I get it, Mr. Friedman. You have to stay in good with your liberal buddies, so you make up a bogus reason to attack Bush et al. Bush waited an unnecessary 6 to 8 months for Blair and Powell's attempt to try the diplomatic multilateral approach. Did you forget that?

Also, Bush let the State Department run the immediate post war with the kabosh of the external Iraqis and the imposition of a buch of lefties such as that Boudin woman and Jay Garner, who is just this past week revealing his true colors. Do you forget these things? No, you just want contrition from Bush and Rumsfeld. You are worhtless. Your personal failings--maybe it is your wife's influence, after all-- determine this whole idiotic snit about how Bush is right, but he wasn't really. All to preserve your standing with the NYT and others.

[ontos-on]

" Behind every (straight) liberal man is an overbearing, selfrightous, aggressive liberal woman.

And if I didn't, my wife would remind me.

Precisely.

As Nietzsche said, if you fail to get the relation to woman issue right, all else will be rotten.

[ontos-on]

Liberals just don't turn tail and run when the fighting starts. They wail and moan, prevaricate, temporize and delay your going out to meet the enemy as mush as humanly possible; and then wail and moan at every step once the fighting does start.