assignment #1by Z.Wright

The article "Radical in the White House" by Thomas Friedman, was quite encourging words for the new president of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama after from Martin Luther King to the present people said "there will never be a black president, guess what we proved them wrong, 233 years after America was being found, and 144 years after the civil war was fought and we was free, we finally did it. Obama fans wearing Obama shirts in the streets, people celebrating, lets get off the subject for a moment and talk about radical in the white house Not radical left or right, just a radical, because this is a radical moment. It is a moment for radical departures from business as usual in so many areas.

Though out the years people criticize Barack Obama for being a lobbyist and accepting money from them, but its not about that it's not about Obama being a radical but im pretty sure he is a closet radical hopefully, its about change coming to this country because we are going through energy crisis, healthcare is in schambles, and jobs are going left and right because of the man that been in the white house for 8 years, like Micheal J. Sandel The system is built for stalemate. “In ordinary times, the energy and dynamism of American life reside in the economy and society, and people view government with suspicion or indifference. This means that when the economy is good people is all right thinking nothing is going to happen, but when we start to crumble we panic thinking that the world is over.

This article was from the New York Times, this article was written because people needs to know about what is Obama is all about and how this nation can be turned around, it was directed towards the people that think that Obama is just mouth and he just saying its time for a change just to get in the white house but just give the man a chance, the arthor is trying to say that Barack Obama is a better president than George W. Bush and can actually make a difference in this world and its been many years that people has been waiting for but he is saying healthcare, and jobs need to be handle something that could not accomplished in the Bush era.

Assignment #1 A Lucketta

The article wrote in the New York Times, "Radical in the White House," by Thomas L. Friedman, was wrote to let America know how far the United States has grown, by learning how to sit up, crawl, and stand tall walking and running fast at a full speed, with excellent accomplishments. It is amazing to hear the great history the United States has accomplished and now we have our First African-American President to continue the steamship at full speed ahead. Friedman is letting the President know that it will be hard to get back going and once the United States gets up to accomplish the small and big task it will become great accomplishment in the history book.

Friedman says, "Don't postpone solutions to every big problem that might involve some pain and by telling ourselves that dramatic new initiatives." Just go ahead and help the U.S. from drowning more. Friedman also writes toward Obama letting him know he will swing great heights and be able to run the bases, but don't skip a base causing some plans to fail, and continue to be in the leadership.

Obama is continuing to make new laws and programs and such while, doing so he is still making sure what it means to be a citizen, and clean up the eight year mess that will not be straighten out over night, it will take alot for the U.S. to fix it, and to create new jobs to continue to run faster in the finish.

Asignment #1 K. Sanders

The article “Radical in the White House,” was written by Thomas L. Friedman who has been chief diplomatic, White House, and international economics correspondent for The New York Times and is currently the foreign affairs columnist there. In his foreign affairs column, in The New York Times, is where this article was published, the day of President Obama’s inauguration.

This article was written because electing the first African-American into the office of the President of the United States is a significant event in the history of the U.S. Friedman writes this article to the American people and has basically written out what the majority of people want or expect from Obama as President. He also writes toward Obama as well, telling him “That is why this voter is hoping Obama will swing for the fences. But he also has to remember to run the bases.”

Friedman’s argument is that Obama needs to be radical, to not waste this opportunity given to him and that he needs to make tough decisions and changes to America. Friedman uses a quote from Michael J. Sandel that compares Obama to the likes of John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson which says that “They rewrote the social contract, and redefined what it means to be a citizen. Obama’s moment, and his presidency, could be that consequential.” Also it’s not just that Friedman wants Obama to be as good as he was represented to be, he wants him to be better than that, to be an overachiever.

ASSIGNMENT#1 (KMcClure-Vicars)

Thomas L. Friedman’s article for the New York Times makes a good point. For a good while America has been going downhill and there has not been much to help in cementing the cracks that have been getting bigger and bigger. First and for most let me point out that bush did try to help with a short term solution which was the stimulus package. The stimulus package was a 150 billion dollar package to help boost the economy’s turmoil. The package sent money to business to regroup and to send out one to three-thousand dollars to lower and middle income families. The bill was signed on May of 2008. With good intentions the money didn’t last long and people mainly paid their bills instead of spending the money and Capitol Hill failed to give out any more ideas on what would happen to our troublesome economy.
Therefore, Friedman is stating to Americans that action must be taken place immediately because if the moment is put aside our nation might as well burn. Friedman also points out that Obama needs to decide which problems he can handle first. I was not at the inauguration so I did not have the moment like Friedman did. I did however was able to watch the speech at home and see as Friedman explains Oboma’s gift of oratory. I hope that with this gift he can bring congress together and instead of putting the main problems aside for a later discussion, Obama will make them realize just how huge our Nation needs to be resolved so business can have jobs and people can work and families will not have suffer with tight budgets. This article I read was urgency to Obama and an overview for Americans that our economy has suffered enough. I can only hope that Obama will have good judgement when laws are to be made and no corruption is played into his mind.

Assignment #1 pgriffin

This article was written by Thomas L. Friedman, who won three Pultizer prizes and once worked as Chief White House Correspondent. The article appeared in the New York Times, and was written because America had just sworn in the first black man as president, President Barack Hussein Obama. Friedman had written the article in hopes that it would inspire Americans to keep the pendulum of radical change swinging in the direction invisioned. The article was written to all Americans, specially those who have a radical nature for radical change. Friedman believes that America need to be ready for radical change if America is to survive the crisis it finds itself in. Friedman believes that electing a black man as president was a radical step the American people took and that it will take more of that kind of change to pull the country out of the mess it is in.

The arugment Friedman was trying to make is that we can't expect a quick fix for the mess we are in and that President Obama needs to put everything on the table. No longer can we as Americans put our heads in the sand so we won't have to deal with the painful decision that must be made. It was Friedman or President Obama who said "The hour is late, the project couldn't be harder, the stakes couldn't be higher and the payoff couldn't be greater." President Obama needs to allow God to lead America out of the mess it is in, because forgetting God and taking God out of what God has established will only cause it to fall and how great the fall will be.It was God who gave America its power and It is God Almighty who sets up nations and if that nation put God aside, it is God who will bring that nation to its knee! Repent America and be saved.

K. Stiling Assignment 1

"Radical in the White House" is an article written in the New York Times by Thomas L. Friedman. He is looking for President Obama to make some big changes. Friedman includes a statement from Michael J. Sandel, a Harvard University political theorist, who compares Obama's presidency to that of John F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. According to Sandel, these three former presidents "did more than enact laws and programs, they rewrote the social contract, and redefined what it means to be a citizen." Sandel believes that Obama could be just as effective- as long as he remembers to "run the bases" after 'swinging for the fences', which is something George Bush did not do, according to Friedman. 

Friedman states that he hopes that President Obama will be a radical president, because that is what times are calling for right now.  Deep holes were left by George Bush's post-9/11 decisions, and is why America is in need of radical change.  It seems as though Friedman's hopes will be answered as he closes with this quote from Obama- "Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interest and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely changed."

Kiersten Stiling

John Thomas assign #1

The article is written by Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times, a highly liberalized news outlet. The article was written one day after the Obama inauguration, i.e., a very jovial time for a many Americans. The audience it was directed towards is generally most Americans but especially Americans who are affected by his new presence.

The basic argument Friedman is trying to make is that he is hoping that Obama is more than advertised. He states that he hopes that he is a radical in the since of his idealism and forthcoming actions. When the country, like it is now, is facing such dire needs, Friedman thinks that we need Obama to not just take ease and conservative measures at fixing our problems, but really swing for the fences and basically overachieve.

I personally believe that Obama is one of the better things that has ever happened to the U.S. His election has helped unify the people, bringing in a large part of the population to become more patriotic, a section of the population that generally has never cared much about politics and govt. However, I don't think that political rookies quite understand all that is really going on or that is on the table. Obama's laundry list of messes to clean up from the last administration is way more than one page and to think that he is going to be able to clean them all up in 4-8 years is a bit ridiculous. Bush has set the USA back 40-50 years and people need to recognize that. Even Superman and Batman needed help.