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From: LindyBill11/23/2005 9:53:27 PM
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"Be The Bridge, Danny"
RCP blog
By Tom Bevan

On Monday Tom Friedman took home the £30,000 first prize in the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year for The World Is Flat. Lucky for him the judges voted before they got a chance to read his NY Times column today (Times Select) which attempts to set a new standard for liberal pablum:

Truly, I hope Mr. Bush rises to the challenge. We do not have three years to waste. To do that, though, Mr. Bush would need to become a very different third-term president, with a much more centrist agenda and style. If he does, he still has time to be a bridge to the future. If he doesn't, the resources he will have squandered and the size of the problems he will have ignored will put him in the running for one of our worst presidents ever.

Generally I'm a fan of Friedman's work but this reads like a bad parody of Ty Webb talking to Danny Noonan in Caddyshack. "Just be the bridge to the future, Danny. Be the bridge....
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