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Tom Friedman:
”If you talk to foreigners, and I’ve lived abroad, they love to make fun of America, they love to make fun of our naivité, our belief that every problem has a solution. But deep down I think many of them actually envy our optimism. American optimism is what makes the world go around. And what Bush and Cheney really did by moving to exporting fear rather than hope, is that they actually stole something from people out there.
There’s something excessive about their antipathy to Bush and Cheney, and it comes from the feeling that they actually stole this ideal America that people carry around in their heads, this optimistic place. And I think that the most important thing that an Obama presidency could redeem is to restore that America that actually is an optimistic place that people can believe in again. It is so important, we are the straw that stirs the drink out there. And when we go dark, the whole world goes dark.”