1.   Former President George Bush learned this painful truth four years ago.

2.   It represents the sublimation of suffering into beauty, the formation of a beautiful illusion to conceal the painful truth.

3.   And it whitewashed the painful truth that America had harshly resisted his call to do the right thing.

4.   Bad PR or painful truths?

5.   A painful truth.

6.   Ah yes, the only people in your life permitted by law to tell you the painful truth supposedly for your own good.

7.   Again, the painful truth is yes.

8.   But this is not judging, it is acknowledging a very painful truth.

9.   For the sake of our own integrity, however, we might just have to learn to confront some painful new truths.