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