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New York Times wants Obama to become Islam’s “very special leader”

Add liberal New York Times columnist (pardon our redundancy) Thomas Friedman to the list of those who think President Obama is Muslim. At least that’s our takeaway from his latest column.

Add liberal New York Times columnist (pardon our redundancy) Thomas Friedman to the list of those who think President Obama is Muslim. At least that’s our takeaway from his latest column.

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The New York Times Thomas Friedman in the middle of having a deep thought

Friedman’s flash of insight came while watching a movie about Nelson Mandela:

Speaking of South Africa’s whites, Mandela adds, “We have to surprise them with restraint and generosity.”

I love that line: “We have to surprise them.” I was watching the movie on an airplane and scribbled that line down on my napkin because it summarizes what is missing today in so many places: leaders who surprise us by rising above their histories, their constituencies, their pollsters, their circumstances–and just do the right things for their countries.

According to Friedman’s theory, Islam needs “a very special leader” who can lead “a political surge by Arabs and Muslims to heal intracommunal divides.” So far, so good. But this is where Friedman’s theory goes off the tracks. Seriously off the tracks.

It would be great if President Obama surprised everyone and gave another speech in Cairo–or Baghdad–saying that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BrDsH0ECHASay what? Is Friedman suggesting that he thinks Obama can become Islam’s “very special leader”? Doesn’t that say, by definition, that Obama is Muslim? And isn’t that the kind of thing Friedman would normally accuse conservatives of saying?

Let’s just consider ourselves lucky that the airline didn’t show this cartoon before the movie or Friedman may have proposed that Mickey Mouse become Islam’s special leader.

H/T: Wall Street Journal

Please sit before reading this: NY Times says Obama should accept Nobel on behalf of American military

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times thinks Obama should accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the American military. Hey, wait. Is this April 1?

Ssssssh! Don't tell any of Thomas Friedman's liberal friends that he supports the American military
Ssssssh! Don't tell any of Thomas Friedman's liberal friends that he supports the American military

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times thinks Obama should accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the American military.

Hey, wait. Is this April 1? Nope. Just checked the calendar and it’s October 14. The only other option is that Friedman has had an extremely rare moment of clarity.

What follows are words you never thought you’d see from Friedman and/or the Times:

Let me begin by thanking the Nobel committee for awarding me this prize, the highest award to which any statesman can aspire. As I said on the day it was announced, ‘I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize.’ Therefore, upon reflection, I cannot accept this award on my behalf at all.

But I will accept it on behalf of the most important peacekeepers in the world for the last century — the men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

I will accept this award on behalf of the American soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi fascism. I will accept this award on behalf of the American soldiers and sailors who fought on the high seas and forlorn islands in the Pacific to free East Asia from Japanese tyranny in the Second World War.

… Until the words of Isaiah are made true and lasting — and nations never again lift up swords against nations and never learn war anymore — we will need peacekeepers. Lord knows, ours are not perfect, and I have already moved to remedy inexcusable excesses we’ve perpetrated in the war on terrorism.

But have no doubt, those are the exception. If you want to see the true essence of America, visit any U.S. military outpost in Iraq or Afghanistan. You will meet young men and women of every race and religion who work together as one, far from their families, motivated chiefly by their mission to keep the peace and expand the borders of freedom.

So for all these reasons — and so you understand that I will never hesitate to call on American soldiers where necessary to take the field against the enemies of peace, tolerance and liberty — I accept this peace prize on behalf of the men and women of the U.S. military: the world’s most important peacekeepers.

Thomas Friggin’ Friedman supports the U. S. military? Proof positive that there is a God.

Source: New York Times

Federal gas tax to increase $2.40/gallon?

"Hand it over. It's only another $2.40/gallon."
"Hand it over. It's only another $2.40/gallon."

If New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has his way, gas taxes will go up. Way up. He wants to slap an additional $2.40 per gallon in taxes on top of the 18.4¢ you already pay.

“Today’s financial crisis is Obama’s 9/11,” Friedman wrote. “The public is ready to be mobilized. Obama is coming in with enormous popularity. This is his window of opportunity to impose a gas tax. And he could make it painless: offset the gas tax by lowering payroll taxes, or phase it in over two years at 10 cents a month.”

Do the math. 10 cents a month for two years. That’s an additional $2.40 per gallon.

Of course, that probably won’t bother Friedman. He married into a very wealthy family, reportedly lives in an 11,000 sq ft mansion on a lovely 7-1/2 acre estate in Bethesda, Maryland that’s valued at nearly $10,000,000.

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