Good ole Tom NYT Friedman, good ole predictable Tom NYT Friedman.

Old NYT (that's pronounces Na-yet) Friedman seems to be suffering from a certain pathology similar to what Northern Democrats felt about Old Abe Lincoln.

Old Abe you see, could do nothing right, was low and common and baboon looking. Ole W, curiously enough is also compared to chimps and is ridiculed for reading the likes of George MacDonald and other inspirational writers besides GASP reading the Psalms and the Old Book.

Writers who talk that way forget that C.S.Lewis, Dickens, Shakespeare, Churchill (Winston the Nobel prize winner for literature not Ward the phoney Indian apparent forger of Indian art), Milton etc. considered the Psalms many portions of the the Auld Book to be at the very limits of literature equally the greatest Greek, Roman or oriental literature.

So there is nothing dumb about reading, baseball biographies, multi-volumn non-fiction, biographies of historical figures, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald or the Bible.

Quite the contrary people who are unaccustomed to the Bible and its great legacy are the ignorant ones but that is what public school produces today. It is why I, as a public school teacher, actively encourage parents and students to homeschool themselves while attending public schools so as to improve their minds and broaden their education. I don't tell them what to read, mind you, I just encourage them to become lifelong and independent learners.

As I have written before old Ike was considered to be second rate compared to glib Stevenson or handsome JFK but who today could not realize that if you line up post WWII presidencies, old IKE looks better and better because of his wise rule, his fair rule his intergrity and his moderate reformist attitude towards Civil Rights reform as well as his embrace of key New Deal reforms. Just compare old Ike to LBJ or Carter or of the somnolulent foreign policy of Mr. Clinton and only Truman can really compare to Ike of all post war presidents. And of course Ole W many prove in time to be as successful as any. What will the pundits say about that. QUE NO QUIERO VERLA (I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT. DILE A LA LUNA QUE VENGA QUE NO QUIERO VERLA (TELL THE MOON THAT I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT!!)

Old Abe was considered second rate too just as Old W is considered 2nd rate and is "misunderestimated".

Why this should be? I don't really know but the real reason must be envy.

Many pundits, with Ivy league degrees and long pedigress feel, secretly, that THEY are better than Ole W., have a more exciting life of hedonism (Bush would be less boring if he boozed or womanized), so they display their envy with their vitriol, disdain or in this case their pretending that Ole W is not even a major actor in these events. Incredible. But the absence of Bush's name is striking as the high school text book I read that never mentioned IN A HISTORY OF WWII Churchill or FDR but did mention Truman -after all he dropped the bomb- and Stalin. After all Uncle Joe was a great guy! HE had NOTHING to do with the Cold War, that was ALL Uncle Sam's fault.

History will be the final judge of events but it remains amazing that president Bush and his patient allies Blair and Howard are not even mentioned in NYT Friedman's article.

That is the last hope of Friedman and his ilk at NYT
Na-yet! We can't stand it! We can't admit WE WERE TOTALLY WRONG. Na-yet Na-yet! Na-Yet.

If they repeat it 10 times fast maybe Red America will change in color. Na yet, NYT.

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