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.
