Hilarious: Cheney presents Pope with glass dove

[susu369]

What an idiot - but great for a good laugh:

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II, a staunch opponent of the war in Iraq, greeted Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday with a message calling for international cooperation and peace.

"I encourage you and your fellow citizens to work at home and abroad for the growth of international cooperation. ... The American people have always cherished the fundamentals values of freedom, justice and equity," the pope told Cheney, an architect of the war.

The hand of the pontiff, who suffers from Parkinson's, trembled as he read the short greeting.

Cheney, who was seated on his right, presented the pope with a dove made of glass, which the pontiff stroked with his hand.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/7805358.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

[Racenut20]

1. Needless to say the vP missed the point of the comments.

[MrBenchley]

2. Then he and Scalia shot it out of the Pope's hands (nt)

[susu369]

3. Oh, stop

my stomach already hurts from laughing so much.

That's a good one....

[NJCher]

6. choke!

OMG!


Cher

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. LMAO....omg to funny...i love you Bob!

[Rainbowreflect]

12. I just spewed tea all over my computer, thanks a lot.

[Paragon]

4. Then Cheney was strucketh by a lightning bolt

Evil fuck.

[hang a left]

5. I don't find anything funny about this at all.

How does Cheney get an audience with the Pope. And to give him a glass dove is almost laughing in his face. Unless there is something even more sinister about his visit that we don't know.

Don't mind me, I don foil for every occasion.

[donsu]

21. it WAS a slap in the face and the pope knew it

this pope used to be very brave, I wonder if he still is. many times the elderly can be fierce defenders.

[youngred]

22. It's part of Cheney's free publicity tour of Europe

as a head of a European State the Pope is someone Cheney can call on. Esp since its an election year and the GOP is hoping to further steal from the Democrat's Catholic base

[preciousdove]

7. Cheney = Eddie Haskels Evil Twin Brother n/t

:evilfrown:

[Nihil]

8. "Peace is beautiful ...

... but can be smashed at any time ..."

"This is how fragile your church is in America these days. Toe the line."

"I am a peacemaker. Remember that and smile for the camera damn you."

Plenty of sub-texts for that "gift".

Nihil

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. Cheney is an EVIL asshole.....

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[0007]

11. The health of the Pope and Dick Cheney is as fragile as the glass figurine

used as a symbol of world peace.

[ArkDem]

13. In the Catholic Church the dove would symbolize

the Holy Spirit.

[diamond14]

14. that's the REAL screw-up...it's the cheney is god ! symbol....

nobody seems to notice that the whole bush* cabal is galavanting through Europe on OUR tax money...after cheney's twenty minute speech in Davo, Switzerland...along with his wife and daughter, cheney is now touring (for 5 days) the Swiss/Italian alps, Rome, and other European attractions...and amazingly, culturally insulting the Pope....

meanwhile, asscroft is in Vienna, Austria with his wife...listening to major classical music performances (his favorite pastime here in DC)...yesterday, asscroft embarrassed US in front of the whole world by claiming:

"Weapons of mass destruction also include evil chemistry and evil biology....."

and bush* continues to concentrate on raising millions of dollars for his repulican primary campaign, in which NOBODY is running against him...

where is the OUTRAGE...as OUR soldiers DIE, and massive numbers of OUR troops are being moved around....and no efforts made to find the Anthrax KILLER, and osama-bin-missing....the whole bush* cabal remains on tax-payer funded junkets....

[ArkDem]

17. and this relates to the holy spirit in what way...

?

[devinsgram]

15. When he gets to the pearly gates

they'll probably throw it at him. Silly me, I forgot, he won't be going up, he'll be going down.

[Gin]

16. they know how to twist symbols.....Peace through aggression!

gin

[diamond14]

18. Pope and cheney...WOW !.....wishing cheney well (pic)

cheney, the man who condemned himself to hell for all eternity, by his own actions...



GO Pope....

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. ...made in China, no doubt.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. Touring to distract from Kay's reports. Throw the press a stick-Fetch!

If that glass dove represented the White House accurately, it would contain cluster bombs, anthrax, nuclear waste, and a mutant frog.