The Pope & Barack Obama: Same Mistakes, Different Men
For all the uproar over the Vatican’s decision to revoke the excommunication of Richard Williamson a Holocaust denier, the Pope for his part has been silent…
Same Mistakes, Different Men
I’m not suggesting the Pope is equivalent to the Evil Emperor from Star Wars, although there is a uncanny resemblance… In fact the Pope is probably most similar to Barack Obama. Both have crap vetting systems and both made political decisions to go on with risky nominations or revocations in the name of the greater good.
The Vatican states it wasn’t aware of Williamson’s views, but the Vatican isn’t stupid. It’s deceptively a political body. In Obama’s case, tax problems with Daschle were known well before the nomination, but for the greater good of universal health care the decision was made to stick with Daschle.
Obama summed it up short and sweet by saying ‘I screwed up.” The Pope though kept mum, letting the story fester in the media, making it only worse.
On Hubdub predictors forecast The Pope remains silent and not by small margins either. At posting time Hubdub gave the Pope remaining silent a whopping 83% chance. My prediction is that The Pope will be forced to issue yet another strongly worded apology, it’s his own fault though. If he’d come out with a strong apology when the whole mess began the issue could’ve been nipped in the butt.
The withdrawal of Williamson’s revocation to the Church is dismally unlikely, currently being given only a 25% chance. If I was forecasting with my heart I’d say the idiot should get the boot, but I think we all know he’s probably gonna stay on.
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