Politics Isn't Everything

If you've watched Fox News at all, you've seen Bob Beckel, a pugnacious, old-line Democratic operative who occasionally gets himself bleeped out of conversations on The Five. Cal Thomas writes a very nice column today about his friend, Bob Beckel, and his new book, I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV and Addiction. They are an unlikely pair, this conservative Republican and Democratic operative, but Thomas sees past the political to the heart of a man, which Beckel himself reveals in his book:

"I have known Bob for 20 years. I have traveled with him, shared meals with him and listened to him share deeply personal things, which only happens when one is a trusted friend. The real Bob is the one who rescues drunks and gets them into treatment programs; who talks about and loves his children, who cares deeply for the poor and underprivileged and who is able to see flaws in his own party, as well as in the other party."
Thomas is practicing a trait that should be normative for all of us - charity in outlook; we all fall short of the glory of God. And not surprisingly, God is involved in the story of why Beckel is not dead, as Thomas highlights:

"In his remarkable book, Bob reveals some of his failings, challenges and temptations, not to glorify them, but to give the reader a sense of the magnitude of the grace of God, Who rescued him in his darkest hour."

I once was lost, but now I'm found. Would that all of us have intimate personal familiarity with the truth of this verse. I am happy that Bob Beckel and his friend Cal Thomas do.

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