"President Obama has significant achievements to his record. He has done a solid job stemming the economic crisis he inherited and a good job managing national security and initiating important reforms — from health care to auto mileage standards.
But with Europe in peril, China and America wobbling, the Arab world in turmoil, energy prices spiraling and the climate changing, we are facing some real storms ahead. We need to weatherproof our American house — and fast — in order to ensure that America remains a rock of stability for the world. To do that, we’ll have to make some big, hard decisions soon — and to do that successfully will require presidential leadership in the next four years of the highest caliber."
Bottom line: Obama is not of "the highest caliber," and Friedman is calling upon Michael Bloomberg to "reconsider running for president as an independent candidate, if only to participate in the presidential debates and give our two-party system the shock it needs."
Could it be that Friedman is smarting from the rumors that Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria -- and not Friedman -- is being considered by Obama as his next Secretary of State (see: http://freebeacon.com/the-future-of-fareed/)?
Sorry, Tom. Better luck next time.
Sorry again,Tom.
ReplyDeleteWe need presidential leadership that will make hard decisions in the next four weeks,not four years.