Dennis Prager says on his radio show Friday: "The Prager Doctrine is that you can not act out your unhappiness. Even with strangers. It’s just not fair. You are in a cruddy mood but there is no reason for you to inflict it. Bad moods are like bad breath. We brush our teeth and gargle so we can be presentable to others. The natural state of the mouth is not pleasant. We don’t allow it to express itself. It’s not fair to others.
"This notion that I am not being authentic… No. I don’t want you to hide your true feelings. I don’t want you to act out on them.
"With those in your life, of course you share verbally your bad feelings, your hurt, your unhappiness. I want you to be transparent. Transparency is one of the ideals in life. The better you are known, the better. The fewer black boxes in your life, the better. It’s scary to be married to someone you don’t know. It’s scary to have a friend or coworker like that. You want to feel you know the person.
"I don’t mean your kids. I’m talking about your equals. Your friends. Of course let them know if you are feeling bad."
"You know you’ve reached this ideal when you tell a friend how bad you feel and he responds, ‘Wow, I wouldn’t have known.’"
"Every time you keep a secret from a loved one, you are placing a barrier between you. Maybe there is even a good reason for it."
"That’s why having an affair creates a barrier even if the other one doesn’t know. It forces a gulf."
Dennis says it doesn’t matter that Sarah Palin hasn’t met any foreign leaders. You learn nothing from meeting foreign leaders. President Bush met Vladimir Putin and thought he could trust him. He was wrong.
Dennis says Sarah Palin has no foreign policy credentials and that McCain should abandon his phony answer about her credentials coming from leading Alaska’s National Guard and being next to Russia.
