Can Bob Herbert be talked into running for president?

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Cuz he hits it out of the ballpark:

>>If I were a close adviser of President Obama’s, I would say to him, “Mr. President, you have two urgent and overwhelming tasks in front of you: to put Americans trapped in this terrible employment crisis back to work and to put the brakes on your potentially disastrous plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan.”

Reforming the chaotic and unfair health care system in the U.S. is an important issue. But in terms of pressing national priorities, the most important are the need to find solutions to a catastrophic employment environment that is devastating American families and to end the folly of an 8-year-old war that is both extremely debilitating and ultimately unwinnable.

We have spent the better part of a year locked in a tedious and unenlightening debate over health care while the jobless rate has steadily surged. It’s now at 10.2 percent. Families struggling with job losses, home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies are falling out of the middle class like fruit through the bottom of a rotten basket. The jobless rate for men 16 years old and over is 11.4 percent. For blacks, it’s a back-breaking 15.7 percent.

We need to readjust our focus. We’re worried about Kabul when Detroit has gone down for the count.<<

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/opinion/10herbert.html

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1. No.

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. LoL!

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[Botany]

3. Needed to be said ..... great piece

n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Does he *ever* miss? Don't think I've seen it. nt

[monmouth]

5. If Herbert and Eugene Robinson were regular "panelists" on

Sunday morning shows I'd be tempted to watch them again. Get rid of Will, Noonan and the rest and invite these two guys. That would be great, informative tv...sigh.

[phantom power]

6. Good points, although I don't actually see...

why Obama can't make progress on all three. He's a smart, talented guy. He can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[n2doc]

7. Seems like the "plan" is to funnel the young unemployed into an endless surge

Need those bodies out there protectin our freedoms!