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Home Front: Politix
Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador
well, that's like, soooo embarrassing and stuff, y'know?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2009 14:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since it appears, for all intents and purposes, that her Uncle Ted got away with murder at Chappaquidick (sp); she probably assumed support for the killing of unborn children would not be an impediment to her ambassadorship. Talk about chutzpah and hubris. >:(
Posted by: WolfDog || 04/11/2009 16:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe this is the fifth nominee the Vatican has nixed. B-16 is sending a very clear message to the American Church via 0. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out in future elections and masses.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/11/2009 16:47 Comments || Top||

#3  So far O is sending a message right back to B-16: he'll keep proposing pro-abortion 'Catholics' to be ambassador. At some point either the Holy See is going to decide that it doesn't need an American ambassador in Rome, or that it does. I think Bambi cares as much about an ambassador to Rome as he does about getting the region codes right on a DVD gift box. Let's see who blinks first.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/11/2009 16:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Well I suppose since she can't seem to find a job (no real qualifications besides being a bubblehead) she can sign up for welfare and try to get in on one of their useless-qualifications training programs.....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/11/2009 16:51 Comments || Top||

#5  ... try to get in on one of their useless-qualifications training programs....

Isn't being ambassador to the Vatican one of those jobs?
Posted by: Steve White || 04/11/2009 17:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Let's see who blinks first.

I would not be surprised to see neither blink. Which might end up making a lot of American Catholics put on their thinking caps.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/11/2009 17:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Good call by the Pope. Wonder what he thinks of those hypocrites at Notre Dame?
Posted by: Zorba Craising6734 || 04/11/2009 17:20 Comments || Top||

#8  So sad. The only person we conservative Americans can count on to stand up to this administration is somebody in Rome. A German, correct?

Anywho, Ima guess the Vatican has a better institutional memory than liberals, so I say they can hold out until there's some sort of political cost to Barry for not appointing someone. Then he'll make a sensible appointment and the libs will credit him for trying and forgive him the appoinment long before the next election.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/11/2009 18:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Photobucket
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/11/2009 18:51 Comments || Top||

#10  there's some sort of political cost to Barry

Do0n't kid yourself, This isn't about Barry. It's about Pelosi and Biden and Dodd and Collins and Kerry and Mikulski and Voinovich and Harkin...
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/11/2009 19:06 Comments || Top||

#11  correct
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2009 19:08 Comments || Top||

#12  but it's a hard shot, especially with the vapid offspring of the first American Catholic President. Think about that....
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2009 19:09 Comments || Top||

#13  B-16 isn't afraid of hard shots. He'splaying for the highest stakes.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/11/2009 19:16 Comments || Top||

#14  He's telling everyone that the tenents of Catholicism are not negotiable.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/11/2009 20:15 Comments || Top||

#15  Yup. He's acting the way a Pope should.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/11/2009 20:26 Comments || Top||

#16  Finally.
Posted by: SR-71 || 04/11/2009 20:31 Comments || Top||

#17  but it's a hard shot, especially with the vapid offspring of the first American Catholic President. Think about that....

Frank, if she disagrees that strongly with what is generally believed to be a strong core tenent, she's a Protestant, no matter what she calls herself.

Just another moral relativist, along with Martin Luther, Henry VIII, John Wesleyan, Cotton Mather, L. Ron Hubbard, Richard Dawkins...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/11/2009 21:13 Comments || Top||

#18  Of course, some protestant moral relativist types may have more moral standing than others. But still, it isn't Catholicism.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/11/2009 21:14 Comments || Top||

#19  It seems to be the only major world religion without a right to set its own doctrine.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/11/2009 21:15 Comments || Top||

#20  she's a Protestant not a Catholic, no matter what she calls herself.

fixed it.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/11/2009 21:15 Comments || Top||

#21  NS, neither are her uncle (divorced and remarried), Pelosi, and all the other nominally Catholic, pro-abortion politicians.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/11/2009 22:43 Comments || Top||



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