Rich Man "Tom Friedman of the NYT's.. Announces..."Make Way for the Radical Center!"

[KoKo]

(Before "some of us DU'ers" get too excited about a Third Party Challenge ...Google what Tom Friedman's "Make Way for Radicals" is promoting as their possible candidates. Anyway...throwing it out here on DU, because I have friends and non-friends who just LOVE anything that FALLS outta' Friedman's Mouth! He's their GURU that they follow in their daily prayers where they search for their "truth.")

Here it IS!

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"Make Way for the Radical Center!"
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: July 23, 2011

If this kind of idiocy by elected officials sends you into a hair-pulling rage and leaves you wishing that we had more options today than our two-party system is putting forward — for instance, a party that would have offered a grand bargain on the deficit two years ago, not on the eve of a Treasury default — not only are you not alone, but help may be on the way.

Thanks to a quiet political start-up that is now ready to show its hand, a viable, centrist, third presidential ticket, elected by an Internet convention, is going to emerge in 2012. I know it sounds gimmicky — an Internet convention — but an impressive group of frustrated Democrats, Republicans and independents, called Americans Elect, is really serious, and they have thought out this process well. In a few days, Americans Elect will formally submit the 1.6 million signatures it has gathered to get on the presidential ballot in California as part of its unfolding national effort to get on the ballots of all 50 states for 2012.

The goal of Americans Elect is to take a presidential nominating process now monopolized by the Republican and Democratic parties, which are beholden to their special interests, and blow it wide open — guaranteeing that a credible third choice, nominated independently, will not only be on the ballot in every state but be able to take part in every presidential debate and challenge both parties from the middle with the best ideas on how deal with the debt, education and jobs.

“Our goal is to open up what has been an anticompetitive process to people in the middle who are unsatisfied with the choices of the two parties,” said Kahlil Byrd, the C.E.O. of Americans Elect, speaking from its swank offices, financed with some serious hedge-fund money, a stone’s throw from the White House.

MORE of his "THIRD WAY/NO LABELS" (Former known as "DLC"..Triangulation) at.......

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24friedman.html?_r=3

[Dawson Leery]

1. The DLC is not dead. They have rebranded themselves.

Third Way = the friendly face of fascism.

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[malletgirl02]

3. We already have a center party

The Democratic party.

[BigDemVoter]

4. Uggh. Ewww. I HATE

Thomas Friedman. Fucking war monger.

On edit: I DO hate Friedman, but I "sometimes" agree with him!