"Holy mackerel, the energy coming out of this country is unrivaled.  We are so cooked.  Start teaching your kids Mandarin."  was Thomas Friedman's reaction to the Beijing Olympics.  As he points out, Beijing has selected only seven years ago for the Olympics and look what that nation has done in such a short time.  And what has the U.S. done?  "Just compare arriving at La Guardia's dumpy terminal in NYC and driving through the crumbling infrastucture into Manhattan with arriving in Shanghai's sleek airport and talking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train.... Then ask yourself:  Who is living in the third world country?"

This election, Friedman concludes, must be about "who is strong enough, focused enough, creative enough and unifying enough to get Americans to rebuild America."

Brendan, September 3, 2008

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