I was lucky enough to have had Mrs. Lenore Musoff as my Creative Writing/Drama teacher during my senior year at Taylor Allderdice High School. I have so many wonderful memories while being taught by this talented, caring, professional woman. Her sincere dedication toward and for her students still sands out BIG a I recall sitting in her classroom. But what stands out most is how how she would explain...”... Its not just what you say, or how you say it, but why you say it that makes people remember the moment... Honesty is easy to discount, she continued, but once proven as real it can be as powerful as the mightiest of weapons...”
In this land of political rhetoric, pundit musing, propaganda proliferating, it is hard to discern the real from the ridiculous, the fiction from the fact and the sane from the senseless. 24 hour news has permitted lies to be proven true, innuendo based as truth, and speaking louder as speaking truer. In our political climate where division is promoted as the answer and difference not tolerated, voting has become more about hating the other guy then embracing any guy. And words no longer seem to resonate with reason leaving more it much easier to discount the honesty.
Today on the Andrea Mitchell show on MSNBC, Governor Bob McDonnell (R) had a lot to say and did not want to say too much however about his support of the law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound if considering aborting the fetus she is carrying. Governor McDonnell was happy to have his words resonate throughout his Commonwealth’s legislature when speaking to the predominately Republican/Tea Party politicians, but once his crusade of invasion of women’s reproductive rights grew public and loud this boisterous, brave Governor now does not want to REALLY talk about it.
Well, Andrea, the bill you're talking about is an ultrasound bill that 23 states already have a bill that requires a woman to be offered the ability to see an ultrasound before making a life-changing decision. So when that bill goes into effect, it'll be, I think, in the mainstream of the states in that regard.
Note that Governor McDonnell talks about bills that require a woman to be offered an ultrasound, but Virginia's bill requires her to have one regardless of whether she wants to or her doctor recommends it. (msnbc)
Honesty, Mr. McDonnell starts from fact and does not remain honest when the facts start a free fall.
Yesterday, Mrs. Mitt Romney, Ann graced the sound stage of FOX entertainment and wanted to set the record straight that her life and the life of her husband are much more like that of the average American then the media admits. Ann is hurt that even though they just happen to have what seems a whole lot of money, it means very little. And just like the struggling father looking for employment, the single mother having to decide to buy groceries or pay the rent, the senior citizen barely living on social security, the family without two Cadillacs or five homes hoping their medical insurance rates don’t rise, Ann Romney does not consider herself to be wealthy. Money is secondary Ann Romney insists it is family and friends that make you rich.
Mitt Romney's wife says she doesn't consider herself to be wealthy.
In an interview Monday on Fox News, the wife of the Republican presidential front-runner, Ann Romney, was asked about criticism that her husband can seem out of touch with average Americans. His worth has been estimated as high as $250 million. (FOX News)
Honesty Mrs Ann Romney is not a saccharine response that might as well be written on a Hallmark greeting card. Either you have no idea of reality or your reality is so gilded you are blind to anything honest.
We have been inundated by the crass, ignorant, chauvinistic, rude, crude comments said by Rush Limbaugh, who felt he was the one brave soldier to speak out loudly what many of the cowardly Republican/Tea Party leadership only quietly muttered. From his tower of power as the unofficial, but very official king maker for Republican/Tea Party political “wanna be’s”, Mr Limbaugh thought he was safe to attack women’s rights and kind of a cool cat to require video tapes of women having sex. Shamefully, it took American women, the people who love and respect them to begin to shake the Dome of Power in which Mr. Limbaugh lives. Only when the outcry grew larger then Rush and his bushel of bigots ever imagined did the Republican/Tea Party pundits step forward with criticism of the harsh words. But the Republican/Tea Party presidential candidates when asked for their opinion, never offering it before asked, they laughed, sidestepped and ignored the root of the problem and avoided the ire of the problem maker.
ABC’s George Will told me Sunday on “This Week” that GOP leaders have steered clear of harshly denouncing Limbaugh’s comments because “Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh”.
“[House Speaker John] Boehner comes out and says Rush’s language was inappropriate. Using a salad fork for your entree that’s inappropriate. Not this stuff”, Will said. “And it was depressing because what it indicates is that Republican leaders are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They want to bomb Iran, but they are afraid of Rush Limbaugh”. (Daily Beast)
It is very few and far between for any Conservative pundit to speak honestly about the flaws and cowardice of their own. Mr. Will was honest in comments regarding the lack of backbone or conscience of the Republican/Tea Party candidates.
Its not just what you say, or how you say it, but why you say it that makes people remember the moment... Honesty is easy to discount, she continued, but once proven as real it can be as powerful as the mightiest of weapons...” Why is honest just so hard to maintain in American politics?
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