Tom Freidman.... DITCHES the NEO-CON INSANITY held by his NY Times stablemates... and joins the "Sanity in American Media" crowd again?

WOW - THE Bush-Cheney ECONOMY IS CRASHING SO QUICKLY, that EVEN UBER- Neo-CON _whore_ THOMAS FRIEDMAN - privileged neo-con Times' hawker of Neo-Con FANTASY ("EXPORT AMERICAN JOBS!" "IMPORT MORE OIL!" "THE WEALTHY DESERVE EVERY DIME OF PROFITS THEY GET!" "TAX CUTS FOR RICH IN TIME OF WAR!" "LET the WAGE-SLAVE PEONS PAY FOR THE WAR, the DEFICITS, AND INTEREST ON those Bush Deficits!"; "American Taxpayers SHOULD BE FORCED TO BAIL OUT Corporate ROBBER BARONS!" "THE WAR IN IRAQ is a JUST, justifiable, AND HOLY!") -

- well, neo-con Tom FINALLY returns to his roots - as a PRAGMATIC LIBERAL. We have saved a photo-copy of a similar Friedman column - written in the early 1990s at the peak of the BUSH-1 RECESSION - comparing Conservative's calls then for "LESS TAXES!" and "LESS GOVERNMENT!", during the Bush-1 Recession, with LIBERIA, then ruled by MASS-MURDEROUS WAR-LORDS RUN AMOK.

The Ft.Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel published Friedman's syndicated column common-sense appeal to America's common-sense that day, printed Friedman's column under a picture of.... a Liberian warlord's foot-soldier walking down a burned out, desolate dirt street, carrying two decapitated heads by their hair or a string.

Well, it has only taken just under 20 years, and just over TWO TRILLION DOLLARS of American INVESTOR MONEY VANISHED INTO THIN AIR this past week, alone, for overpaid Times-boy Friedman to REGAIN HIS SENSES - but in this case better late than never....

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Palin’s Kind of Patriotism
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published: October 7, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html

Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: “You said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic.”

What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.

I only wish she had been asked: “Governor Palin, if paying taxes is not considered patriotic in your neighborhood, who is going to pay for the body armor that will protect your son in Iraq? Who is going to pay for the bailout you endorsed? If it isn’t from tax revenues, there are only two ways to pay for those big projects — printing more money or borrowing more money. Do you think borrowing money from China is more patriotic than raising it in taxes from Americans?” That is not putting America first. That is selling America first.....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html