Posted on 11/26/2016 9:57:56 AM PST by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Discretion with almost no resulting collateral damage = Diplomacy + Damage Control.
Was the past tendency to filter out this sort of information right or wrong? Was it discretion or deception? Is there a limit to the peoples right to know or is this right absolute?
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Their premise is that it is universal... when every example shown is benefiting Democrats... The answer is OF COURSE it is deception... I wouldn’t care if it wasn’t used to advance the socialist agenda.
II Samuel 12:12
Seems God is not a big fan of "discretion" when it comes to political figures.
He seems to hold them to a higher standard because of the power they are given.
Discresion can be useful.
It is not when it is used as a tool of deception and power politics. When only the faults of the opposition are exposed, it becomes an evil.
PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW. PRAISE HIM ALL PEOPLES HERE BELOW, PRAISE HIM ABOVE THE HEAVENLY HOSTS, PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST, AMEN.
None of us has a spotless record and most of us have done things that we would not want revealed to any but God.
AMEN. AMEN.
I think we were a more decent society when we were more discreet.
Excellent point.
I have absolutely no need to see Trump’s tax returns. I don’t particularly need to see Hitlery’s, either. I already know she’s a criminal and there is ample evidence elsewhere.
But I DO want to see financial records on the Clinton Crime Foundation which is supposedly a charity. I want to know where ill-gotten gains come from. I want to know who is paying to play. I want to know how much Hitlery is charging for selling out the American public. I want to see the correlations between donations and favorable actions by the SoS to the donor.
Exactly.
This is what prevents a lot of truly decent, yet imperfect, people from running for office.
Praise God, from Whom electrons flow!
Praise Him, the source of all we know!
Whose order’s in the stellar host!
For in machines, He is the Ghost!
A Catholic priest is not the same thing as a newspaper reporter. His job is to keep confession private; a report’s job is to report the news.
Private lives may be kept private if they have no bearing on public life. But JFK’s private live certain DID effect his politics. He was an idiot and a scum, yet the news media had nothing to say but “Camelot, Camelot, Camelot.”
He was unfit to be President; but who knew it?
I asked an inmate, that I was working with at Kansas State Pen who I knew to be paroling out What he had learned from doing 5 years in max custody? He said “Boss I learned 1 thing, Don’t leave no witnesses.!!!”
There’s an old saying “Discretion is the better part of Valor”
I think however it only applies among those that hold a Moral compass.
Herman Cain, Robert Bork, MIT Romney all had minor transgressions held up as character flaws that torpedoed careers. Things that should never been allowed to be brought into the news, as they were inconsiquential and so far in the past that the individuals learned and became better men. However the icidents were show boated by the biased media and they were made to be irideemable and shameful.
Good point about the morality.
“Discretion is the better part of valor,” is one of those aphorisms that means ... something.
It could mean that, if your valor is going to be worth anything, you need to keep your plans secret up front.
It could mean that, after your valor is successful, it should speak for itself, allowing you to stand back from self-promotion.
Or it could mean other things.
In my mind it means;
“What do you own”
“What do you know to be true”
Discretion and forgiveness run a fine line between walking away or beating the crap out of someone.
Those points call for a definition of both "discretion" and "valor" that I'm not picking up directly from the context.
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