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Title: Unbearably annoying despite some good ideas & insights
Review: I'm sorry, but Thomas Friedman is *extremely* annoying. This book made me curse my habitual inability to not finish reading a book once I've started it.There are definitely quality insights and some good ideas - notably the one that reviewer Robert Steele pointed out earlier, about how Bush should have made energy independence his "moon shot" - *would've* been brilliant.A previous reviewer notes Friedman's apparently plentiful factual errors, but part of me just doesn't even care if he's right or not because his tone the whole time is so obnoxiously glib. He comes off like the sort of creepy fast-talking know-it-all that you know you can't trust even when you don't know why. I hate to just hurl insults, but my honest impression is that he's basically a mind flatterer for readers (particularly American ones), a corporate apologist, and a CEO groupie.
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