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While I believe the rural churches of America represent the very best of the true character and virtue of our nation, my experience in the bars has been one of finding a kind of honesty found nowhere else. Looking at the present crop of contenders for the Presidency confirms my long held opinion politicians and preachers need to spend time in the bars. And I don’t mean the upscale clubs as in “Cocktails for Two,” but the ones frequented by the Great Unwashed where three-piece suits and evening gowns are not proper attire. As Sam Clemens mentioned of the upper classes’ deplorable lack of knowledge of poker making him “ashamed of his species,” so it is with the deplorable lack of knowledge on the part of politicians and preachers about the bars frequented by the common folks. Say what anyone will, I have found the folks in bars to be among the most honest of people, oftentimes more so than those I have known in the churches. Unfortunately,...
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