Good comments there, too:
"...Surprise surprise. The president golfing with a guy who believe that China's one party autocracy is superior to American democracy..."
"As the president suggested, he will shape his administration and it's policies by,with and through those whom he chooses to surround him. When you look at the list of those people it's truly frightening!"
"No one is afraid of intellectuals. We would like to see one. Please tell us where they are hiding."
Of course, the republitards immediately come out on the thread, bashing little Tommie and his pal Barry as liberal scum. Happily, some people on the thread are a little more reality-based:
"friedman was actually one of the biggest cheerleaders for "free trade" and the globalization policies of the reagan era on down... i find it a tad bizarre that he is being painted here as liberal, let alone a "communist"! his economic ideology has always been heavily to right, while his popularity stems from his ability to overwrite disastrous and destructive economic policy in humanitarian language. "the lexus and the olive tree", friedman's take on globalization, is one of the key books of the harvard business school, a bastion of far-right free-market fundamentalism whose alum include g.w. bush (among other assorted luminaries)."
Not that it does much good: the trolls immediately resume their talking points.
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