Truth Be Told

[FourScore]

I especially like the last part about Gore (bold emphasis mine).

Truth Be Told
Posted August 7, 2007 | 11:50 AM (EST)
Marianne Williamson

The current presidential race is a dull, boring game being hailed by the media as an exciting contest. There's no real life there. Very little deep dialogue. It's like a lot of canned music being played too loud.

Though some say a prolonged campaign gives us a chance to get to know the candidates better, in fact there's an ever-more unhealthy feeling that we're being fed the political equivalent of too much prepackaged food day after day. More of a bad thing is not a good thing. Whenever there's even a hint of authentic political conversation -- usually provided, incredibly enough, by Ron Paul! -- all the candidates look like, "Oh no, we're not going there! That's not in the script!" And so they don't. Genuine truth-tellers look silly on that debate stage. In either party, they sort of spoil the show.

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But are we really so weak, or so clueless? A space shuttle fell down over Crawford, Texas; America was going down, right in that spot. A bridge fell over the Mississippi: our most basic foundations are falling down around us. I don't think the British missed it when in the midst of the Diana-Charles turmoil, Windsor Castle caught on fire. Get it? Life tells the truth, even when we won't.

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Many people say it's a good thing that Al Gore hasn't entered the race for the presidency because "he can do more good where he is." They might think that, but Gore himself knows better. There's no spot on earth that carries the material power for good -- or bad -- that is contained within the power of the U.S. presidency. And Gore knows that. He let us know recently that he had come out of his denial regarding politics -- that he has realized he isn't very good at it. If only he could see that that's the good news -- not the bad. Saying you're no good at politics today, is almost like saying that you're no good at lying.

Why would we want someone who's "good" at politics, when politics itself has become so bad? What we want is a new kind of wine that would have to come in a new kind of bottle. And we don't have time to wait until 2012. Will the person who has been transformed by the fires of initiation and has the strength and moral authority to tell the truth, the whole truth, the inconvenient truth, and nothing but the truth, please stand up now? There is always the chance that you might not win, but if you don't even run, then America will almost certainly lose.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/truth-be-told_b_59440.html

[Maddy McCall]

1. I'm not even taking the primary seriously...

until Al Gore tells us that he definitely will or will not run.

If Gore doesn't enter, I'm going to be very, very disappointed.

[Devlzown]

2. You know what they say...

if someone wants the job, he probably should be denied it.

[Myrina]

3. Is this THE Spiritual Self Help Marianne Williamson ?

:shrug: Surprised to see her writing of matters political, if so ...

[BridgeTheGap]

4. Yes, it is.

Very well written.

[Myrina]

5. I especially like this reader comment:

"Fantastic post.

But, I really wonder if Gore is telling the American citizen that politics in America are no longer. It's over. People can sit around and think about "Next time" until moon is flung off our orbit, or they can do like Gore, and just get on with their life. Quit crying over spilt milk and just focus on something that might work for you.
The machines are fixed, they've been fixed. The media is fixed, and now it's Murdoch's lie factory.
The politicians are bribed and spied on, along with anyone else who makes a wake.
The Private sector OWNS American Intelligence, 'cause, y'know, everyone has a price, and spies wear them on their hat like Minnie Perl.

I wish Gore would run.
But I think this government is just a false front. Nothing in it works. Might as well spin the hands on a broken clock expecting the sun to obey."

BadChristian posted 01:42 pm on 08/07/2007



:applause:

[Me.]

6. Oh Yes

K & R