{"id":777,"date":"2009-08-29T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/08\/bill-moyers-bill-maher-pema-chodron-health-care-reform.html"},"modified":"2009-08-29T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:54:03","slug":"bill-moyers-bill-maher-pema-chodron-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/08\/bill-moyers-bill-maher-pema-chodron-health-care-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Moyers, Bill Maher, And Pema Chodron: Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/billmaher\/\">Real Time<\/a> with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmaher.com\/\"> Bill Maher<\/a>, where journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/index-flash.html\">Bill Moyers<\/a> sends a great message to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/29\/AR2009082901085.html\">President Obama<\/a> on standing up for change, and brilliantly diagnoses what&#8217;s wrong with our political system, and especially, the non-progressives in the Democratic Party. Again, I think it is very important to realize that the United States an utter anomaly in the world of Capitalist Democracies, the only major country that has so far failed to see <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignsilo.firedoglake.com\/2009\/08\/28\/sebelius-asks-what-would-teddy-do\/\">health care reform<\/a> as an issue in the universal public interest. I don&#8217;t get it? Why isn&#8217;t America a place where we take care of each other?<br \/><!--more--><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/OTY1NS0zMDgyMA\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/OTY1NS0zMDgyMA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And should readers feel, as inexplicably sometimes seems the case, that <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/\">Buddhism<\/a> should not concern itself with politics (an assertion for which there is precisely zero traditional evidence), here&#8217;s the complete interview Moyers did with Buddhist teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhala.org\/\">Pema Chodron<\/a> on his show a few years ago. In both interviews, it&#8217;s pretty clear that Moyers is&#8230;well&#8230;the man. Have a great weekend.<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/veohplayer.swf?permalinkId=v471374rScnEhqA&amp;id=&amp;player=videodetailsembedded\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"341\" width=\"410\"><br \/><font size=\"1\">Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/videos\/v471374rScnEhqA\">Bill Moyers &#8211; On Faith and Reason &#8211; Interview with Pema Chodron.wmv<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/browse\/videos.html?category=category_lifestyle\">Faith Videos<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;View More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/\">Free Videos Online at Veoh.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a video from Real Time with Bill Maher, where journalist Bill Moyers sends a great message to President Obama on standing up for change, and brilliantly diagnoses what&#8217;s wrong with our political system, and especially, the non-progressives in the Democratic Party. 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