Showing posts with label Freidman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freidman. Show all posts

Sunday, July 28, 2013

If you want to be an optimist about America today, stand on your head

Says Thomas Friedman in NYT

If you see how much fun Obama and his immediate predecessors have had in that job (not much we are to understand) -- and when you look where the most innovations in governance are happening --

Okay, hold those two things.

-- how long will it be before our kids, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, answer: "I want to be a mayor." 

Detroit blows the theory, but other than Detroit, look down ticket. That is the conceit of the article. Very well then, do let's. 


You're right. Things do look better upside down. We also notice Washington too is doing quite well, when we look. He's like me, his commenters there are smarter than he, and more interesting too.