To be fair, the details were slightly different then. But I recall another presidential hopeful who said some of the same fundamental things yet was scoffed at.
To his credit Thompson is a polished actor and does a witty job:
Via Bob Murphy
January 3, 2009
Why didn’t he say this a year ago?
Going against the grain
Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, is never at a loss of words. While it is a year old, this interview gives you a pretty decent look at how the 85 year-old, multi-lingual Chinese-descendant thinks.
Of note, his comments regarding Indonesia and YouTube are rather comical and germane.
If you watched the videos on China’s reforms, he was interviewed for the Commanding Heights series, in part because modern-day China emulated a number of the economic liberalizations after Singapore.