Molly Ivins: Run Bill Moyers for President, Seriously

[Dudley_DUright]

Dear desperate Democrats:

Here’s what we do. We run Bill Moyers for president. I am serious as a stroke about this. It’s simple, cheap and effective, and it will move the entire spectrum of political discussion in this country. Moyers is the only public figure who can take the entire discussion and shove it toward moral clarity just by being there.

The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy.

Bill Moyers has been grappling with how to fit moral issues to political issues ever since he left Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and went to work for Lyndon Johnson in the teeth of the Vietnam War. Moyers worked for years in television, seriously addressing the most difficult issues of our day. He has studied all different kinds of religions and different approaches to spirituality. He’s no Holy Joe, but he is a serious man. He opens minds—he doesn’t scare people. He includes people in, not out. And he sees through the dark search for a temporary political advantage to the clear ground of the Founders. He listens and he respects others.

Do I think Bill Moyers can win the presidency? No, that seems like a very long shot to me. The nomination? No, that seems like a very long shot to me.

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060724_molly_ivins_bill_moyers/

[faithnotgreed]

1. perfect~ he has my full support no matter what he does

[burythehatchet]

2. I would take out a second mortgage for Bill n/t

[Minnesota Libra]

3. Bill Moyers would be great , even the neocons couldn't object and.........

.....best of all he has deep faith and brains. :wow:

[JAYJDF]

4. I say, why not. If Arnie can win in CA, what's the dif.