Guess Which Candidate’s Message Is Closest To That Of Pope Francis
Yes, the Jewish one.
Before the crowd gathered around a small platform outside the “civic engagement tent” at the Iowa Latino Heritage Festival on Saturday heard from the man they came to see, they had to hear a few words from the pope.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent currently running second in the Democratic presidential race, opened his remarks by reading a verbatim Pope Francis quote from a folded piece of yellow legal pad paper he pulled from his back pocket. (Sanders is known to write his own speeches longhand on yellow legal pads.)“The other day I was in the White House and then later on in the halls of Congress listening to Pope Francis,” were the first words out of Sanders’ mouth in Des Moines. “The remarks that he made, moved me very much and I think that there are words that he gave us that we should heed.”
Then came the reading.
“Let me just mention what he said a few weeks ago. He appealed to the world’s leaders to ‘seek a new economic model to help the poor and to shun policies that sacrifice human life on the altar of money and profit.’ That’s Pope Francis,” Sanders said. “And essentially what he is saying in so many words is there is something very wrong in this world, and I am saying in this country, when so few have so much and so many have so little.”
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Anomaly 100 September 27th, 2015 at 08:33
Feel the BERN!
rg9rts September 27th, 2015 at 13:32
What happened to disqus on FON???
Anomaly 100 September 27th, 2015 at 15:12
We still have Disqus.
rg9rts September 27th, 2015 at 15:35
doesn’t show on several articles.. the one for Carson…says you have to log in…then end up with world press…what do I know
Anomaly 100 September 27th, 2015 at 16:13
I see it and others are commenting. Have you tried clearing your cache?
rg9rts September 27th, 2015 at 16:48
I’ll try and annoy you later
Larry Schmitt September 27th, 2015 at 08:39
And the conservatives, both politicians and talk show vermin, hear what the Pope says about capitalism, and they immediately tear into him for wanting to blow capitalism up. He doesn’t say that at all, he says the current version of capitalism is broken because it is infected with the overriding love of money at the expense of everything else. I don’t honestly know how anyone can argue with that. They don’t listen to what he actually says. As usual, they take five seconds out of a 45 minute speech, and ignore everything else.
The Original Just Me September 27th, 2015 at 09:43
attack, Attack, ATTACK ! That is the only thing Joseph Goebbels Followers know how to do.
Budda September 27th, 2015 at 09:54
Another example of the ‘media’ misinterpreting and projecting erroneously.
Robert Kennedy September 30th, 2015 at 23:47
Just like they took 5 minutes out of 20 years of sermons to define Obama’s minister.
StoneyCurtisll September 27th, 2015 at 08:50
Guess Which Candidate’s Message Is Closest To That Of Pope Francis…
The Jewish guy..
Feel the Bern~!
The Original Just Me September 27th, 2015 at 09:45
It is very easy to appease the masses with words. It is entirely another thing to actually accomplish what you are telling them. ” I STILL BELIEVE IN HILARY ! “
Mike September 27th, 2015 at 10:18
It’s 50-50…the Pope is anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion…he still shames women and believes all people are born sinners (evil) Only by giving oneself to the skygod and accepting these points as fact can you be forgiven.
This is merely the first Pope in modern times to even care a little about the poor or the environment, and let’s not forget he oversees a huge multi-national cash cow that’s invested in many of the evils he speaks against.
In short, he’s no liberal in my book.
Kick Frenzy September 27th, 2015 at 18:59
I don’t think anyone with a fully functioning brain is suggesting that the Pope is a liberal.
Parts of his message align with liberal messages, but he’s obviously still a Catholic and still holds to beliefs that are not liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
And while the church as a whole may have vested interests in not-so-great “evils”, this pope is staying fairly far away from that type of excess.
Turning down the lavish Pope quarters for his own sparse room, as an example.
So, no, he’s not a liberal… but he isn’t expected to be.
Especially by most liberals.
We just appreciate that his message is more in line with Biblical teaching than the papacy has been overall, for a long time.
Mike September 27th, 2015 at 20:23
Fair enough. But I don’t think my post suggested anything other than what you said. The media seems to be in a frenzy about painting this Pope as some sort of liberal is what I meant to say, and I don’t believe he is. To me, Sen Sanders would be an example the Pope might try model himself after. (not the reverse) As far as his message being “…more in line with Biblical teaching…” it’s sort of like giving someone extra credit for doing what they’re supposed to do in the first place. Of course this is JMO.
Kick Frenzy September 27th, 2015 at 21:05
Wait… did you say the Pope would model himself after Sanders?
On that point… no, not even close.
They are both life long followers of basic principles of respect for fellow humans.
Neither is/should be modelling their self after the other… they both have been exemplary throughout their lives, long before either knew of the other, I’m sure.
But to your main point, the media on the Right are painting him as “a dirty liberal” while saying the left is ignoring his conservatives principles.
On the Left, they are largely reporting him as in more alignment with what liberals pursue than previous Popes have been, but acknowledge that he is still a Catholic and understandably holds to some of those principles, like being anti-abortion.
And compared to how the papacy has been handled for a long time, he does deserve a mention of how well he is following what a Pope really should be about.
I agree it’s credit for doing what the job asks for, but I’d give credit to a Republican for doing their job in a reasonable manner as well… even though it’s their job, it’s still exceptional in today’s world.
rg9rts September 27th, 2015 at 13:28
Saint Bernard?
Robert Kennedy September 30th, 2015 at 23:45
He’d be the last one to claim to be a saint. But Trump thinks he is one.
robert September 27th, 2015 at 14:59
no doubt about it Bernie is the real deal
Kick Frenzy September 27th, 2015 at 18:59
Feel the Bern!!