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Thomas Friedman Judges Obama’s First Moves as President

03 min 49 sec

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Award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman reflects on Obama's first few months in the Oval Office.

"He's got three priorities," say Friedman, "banks, banks and banks."
Thomas Friedman: This Isn't Your Grandma's Recession

02 min 42 sec

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Award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman comments on the enormous depth of the financial crisis.

"You put that much leverage, on that much globalization and wrap it in that much complexity and start it in America, and I tell you...Grandma never saw this before," says Friedman.
Thomas Friedman: Secretary Kissinger Had It Easy

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Award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman says former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had it easy compared to the current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who faces many complex challenges in her mission to build peace between nations.
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hyacine

Posted: 03.12.09, 02:36 PM

I found this talk pretty disappointing. I'm not a regular reader of Thomas Friedman's columns but I found his emphasis on fixing a system that at its best left millions of Americans disenfranchised while the rich just got richer disheartening. What I want to see in future (from the Obama administration - though my hopes are quickly fading) is new ideas and the beginnings of a new system. We will not get the green and social justice changes the nation and world need through business as usual. Friedman speaks of the banking and financial system as a benign force - the scaffolding we all rightly hang upon - when I see the system and many of the individuals who direct it as rapacious and amoral in their pursuit of profit. They have destroyed or are in the process of destroying everything. Friedman correctly identifies the problems caused by a system based on consumption rather than production but has faith that the same heartless capitalists (only profit is important) would do better were they to turn their energies to greening the world. The reality is that it is the relentless pursuit of profit that has created our environmental problems - I have zero confidence that people with that frame of mind can fix them. I guess Friedman just has more faith in the various players' good will than I do.

Manna

Posted: 03.12.09, 09:10 AM

Take-away quote from Thomas Friedman: "You put that much leverage, on that much globalization and wrap it in that much complexity and start it in America, and I tell you...Grandma never saw this before."

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