Gene Gaudette on the Reality of John Fund and other NeoCons

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, June 23, 2006 4pm PDT

This Week's Show
Our Guest: Gene Gaudette

The Spiritual Politician will hear from Gene Gaudette, editor of American Politics Journal, on the subject of John Fund this week, June 23rd at 7pm EDT. Host Melinda Pillsbury-Foster said of the interview, “Gene Gaudette's insights allow people to understand just how central Fund is to the workings of the NeoCon world. It is a story people need to understand to make sense of how this administration really works.”

American Politics Journal regularly features articles about the administration and prides itself in helping the public understand the reality of political dynamics. On the Spiritual Politician this insight will used to help the public also see the spiritual message that is transmitted beneath the rhetorical positioning.

John Fund, formerly on the Editorial Staff of the Wall Street Journal, is now publicly associated with the Opinion Journal, sponsored by the WSJ, writing JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL . Fund was sent to California to help install Schwarzenegger as Governor there, using the same dirty tricks that have come to characterize the NeoCons as and enforced taught by Karl Rove, a long time political associate of Fund's.

Last year Fund came under fire again for grabbing time on computers belonging to bloggers at the CPAC convention last year. Fund's behavior raises questions about him and also about those who, employing him, tolerate his behavior. Answers will be forthcoming along with new developments in old stories.

The subjects of the interview will range from Fund's long time placement as a political operative to his highly questionable personal life. American Politics Journal made sure that the outrageous Fund behavior of 2000 – 2002, when Fund battered his live-in girl friend, Morgan Pillsbury, was kept in public view.

What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician

Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:

The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So

America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.

That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.

When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.

Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.

This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.

Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.

Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.

We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.

So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.

Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.

Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.