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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 10:30 AM Jul 2015

NY Observer Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Pope Francis

http://observer.com/2015/07/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-and-pope-francis/

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With great mercy to my readers, this will not be another story about the media mania surrounding the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump but a prediction that when September comes, and Pope Francis arrives on American soil, there will be a different kind of mania that will powerfully affect the course of the 2016 campaign: pope mania!

Francis will be visiting New York, Washington and Philadelphia, and he will give major addresses to the United Nations in New York and a joint session of Congress in Washington. The media will give saturation coverage to the pope’s visit, which will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the presidential campaign.
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NY Observer Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Pope Francis (Original Post) LiberalElite Jul 2015 OP
Very Interesting... KoKo Jul 2015 #1
WOW! OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2015 #2
Bernie's on it! Since Francis's proclamations about the environment and helping the poor, merrily Aug 2015 #3

merrily

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3. Bernie's on it! Since Francis's proclamations about the environment and helping the poor,
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 07:33 AM
Aug 2015

Bernie has made comparisons, including saying Francis II is to his (Bernie's) left. (That one may have been a tweet: I don't remember.)

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