you know tom friedman sucks. i don't understand how you just reproduce the dem talking points and call it a column. this could have been written by a machine: rush limbaugh is the head of the republican party. the republican party wants obama to fail. if you can't think, you should at least write your own words. frank rich was utterly like this during the election. either they've just hit senility or they can't figure out how to represent the party in power without total self-subordination.it's a kind of ecstasy of acquiescence that relieves them of the burden of authorship entirely.