Thomas Friedman's really stupid idea (not an FU, but ...

[ProSense]

FU Tom!

Friedman envisions Obama-Cheney '08

11.18.07 -- 4:20PM
By Steve Benen

Just when it seemed Thomas Friedman realized the destructive nature of Dick Cheney's foreign-policy vision, the New York Times columnist suggests today that the VP's approach is not only healthy, but should play a role beyond 2008 if a Democrat succeeds Bush. Specifically, Friedman seems excited by the prospect of an "Obama-Cheney ticket." (Friedman goes so far as to say "they complete each other."

I think a President Obama offering to go to Tehran would have a huge impact on that country and create lots of internal debate, especially if we made clear that America would be satisfied with a verifiable change of Iranian behavior.

But Mr. Obama's stress on engaging Iran, while a useful antidote to the Bush boycott policy, is not sufficient.... Mr. Obama's gift for outreach would be so much more effective with a Dick Cheney standing over his right shoulder, quietly pounding a baseball bat into his palm.

Glenn Greenwald tears this apart quite effectively.

On edit: Just what Obama needs to win: a war criminal on his ticket!

[marmar]

1. I think Thomas Friedman is snorting more than Koolaid these days....

:crazy:

[ProSense]

8. Yeah,

Bush dust!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. I don't think that's kool-aid.

some hallucinogens can be pretty long lasting.

[Downtown Hound]

2. Tom has officially lost it.

I mean, we all knew this years ago, but now it's impossible to deny. Someone needs to restrain that man and lock him up for his own protection.

[Cha]

3. Who knew thomas

friedman was such an attention whore? I thought he was just regular ol' mediawhore.

[annabanana]

4. How can someone smart enough to eat and breathe

and walk around like a person be so incredibly stupid?

[stray cat]

5. Maybe its more we need someone who is strong and right

versus weak and right (stereotype of dems) or strong and wrong (Bush/Cheney)or weak and wrong (Republican stereotype of dems).

[Benhurst]

6. The Mustache in Search of a Brain has outdone himself today.

Recommended :kick: #3

[LeftishBrit]

7. Obama-Cheney????

OK. I'd been wondering if there COULD be a more bizarre proposal than the one I've occasionally seen here, for a Kucinich-Paul ticket. I think this just might be it!

[D23MIURG23]

9. I've always thought he was stupid, but this is downright bizzare.

As though "a Dick Cheney" would ever work with an administration unwilling to vindicate his paranoid delusional world view, or his domineering unilateralist approach to foreign policy. Not to mention that the qualities Cheney brings to our foreign policy are THE LAST THING we need more of.

Someone should set up an intervention for this guy. He is clearly incurring some braindamage from whatever it is that he has been smoking.

[MrScorpio]

10. In the Hallowed Hall of Idiotic Ideas...

We have its icon here

[Stephanie]

12. Friedman was a big war supporter

He was all for it, He promoted the Iraq War for the entire buildup, invasion and beyond. Friedman's an idiot.

[madinmaryland]

13. I'm sure glad I stopped reading him years ago.

What a maroon!

:crazy:

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Thanks for posting ... my subscription to The Onion expired. nt