ANSWER: Name this socialist

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Thu Aug 12 06:56:41 PDT 1999



> This Pope is somewhat strange, althought he has a left wing
> discourse, in
> practice
> he always followed right wing policies, he gave too much
> support to the
> ultra-rightist
> Opus Dei, beatified a fscist archbishop in Croatia and fought a well
> succeded war
> against left wing catholics in Latin America. Who can explain this?

As that article I posted the other day from Slate noted, the Pope is a pretty slick politician -- which is not too surprising ... how else do you become pope? This pope reminds me of another master politician, Bill Clinton, who also "fakes left and moves right," to use U.S. sports lingo.

Carl



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