Hey did anyone listen to today's episode of "Fresh Air". Terry Gross interviewed Thomas Friedman http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13 author of "Hot, Flat, and crowed" This was a terrific interview. The man is so passionate. To sum it all up, he was talking about renewable energy sources and how the US government has rejected them and how the jobs are going over seas. Though radical at times, when he stated that Republicans are sponsors of terror in the oil market. The more he talked, the more passionate and anti John MacCain I became.

he is really inspiring, I am going to get his book
He said mcCain (drumroll ...) flipfloped or refused to vote on renewal energy laws (even as one of them would have brought lots of jobs to AZ ..)
He also said that Obama says the right thing but does not seem very passionate on the topic - which I would have to agree on.
Oh well something to push for once he is in the white house

You have to be cautious of Thomas Friedman. He's right about renewable energy and that's a good thing. However, he's still very much a globalist, promoting Milton Friedman's destructive conservative economic philosophy (de-regulation, free trade garbage).

You might wanna also read about the "Friedman Unit":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman

A study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting first pointed out this phenomenon in May 2006, citing 14 examples of Friedman declaring the next "few months" or "six months" as a decisive or critical period, dating from in November 2003, describing it as "a long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer."
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The blogger Atrios coined the neologism "Friedman Unit" to refer to this unit of time in relation to Iraq, noting its use as a supposedly critical window of opportunity.
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In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2003, Friedman said:

What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?" You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow? Well, Suck. On. This.

It appears he's adjusted his position on the war, at least. But couple that with his economic views, I'm still not a fan.
xoxoxo

thanks for putting things in perspectives