If you were wondering how many times the Democratic presidential aspirants would mention Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the U.S. during back-to-back interviews about their religious faith on CNN's "Compassion Forum," that's the tally.
The interviews were held at Messiah College, an evangelical Christian college in heavily Catholic Pennsylvania. Sen. Hillary Clinton, who has been winning the Catholic vote in most states and is relying on it in next week's hotly contested Pennsylvania primary, managed to insert two references to the pope's upcoming visit.
At one point, she noted that "His Holiness the pope" is visiting this week, and added, "He’s been a strong voice on behalf of what we must do to deal with poverty" and "our obligations to the least among us."
Later, she cited the Vatican as an example of good leadership, saying, "In preparation for the pope's visit, I was reading that the Vatican is the first carbon neutral state in the world now,” she said. (The Vatican announced a plan last year to become the world's first carbon neutral state by planting trees in Hungary to compensate for Vatican City's carbon dioxide emissions.)
Sen. Barak Obama didn't mention the pope. He did manage to insert, however, that he went to Catholic elementary school like Sen. Bob Casey, a prominent Catholic supporter in Pennsylvania.
Photos: Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barak Obama at "Compassion Forum." From CNN.com.
2 comments:
You're bloggin' like a pro, professor.
Hopefully Hillary and Bill never needed to seduce young boys as far too many priests seems to think that god wants them to.
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