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Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador
Telegraph UK ^ | April 11, 2009 | Alex Spillius

Posted on 04/11/2009 1:15:55 PM PDT by SolidWood

The Vatican has blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, according to reports.

Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy's daughter, who publicly gave her support to his election bid. She had been poised to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, but dropped out amid criticism that she lacked enough experience for the job.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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1 posted on 04/11/2009 1:15:56 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood

I just love happy endings.


2 posted on 04/11/2009 1:17:04 PM PDT by papasmurf (Guns didn't make America unsafe, Courts and Congress did!)
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To: SolidWood

lol....I’ve been respecting the Vatican more and more, lately.


3 posted on 04/11/2009 1:18:46 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: SolidWood

A Happy Ending.. the classics never get old. I love this one.


4 posted on 04/11/2009 1:20:17 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: SolidWood

You know,... like, you know, totally blocked, you know...


5 posted on 04/11/2009 1:22:38 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: SolidWood

so very guilty


6 posted on 04/11/2009 1:23:47 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: papasmurf

Well, good on them!!!


7 posted on 04/11/2009 1:24:11 PM PDT by Guenevere ("He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose")
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To: SolidWood
Now if they would just keep them from desecrating the Blessed Host...
8 posted on 04/11/2009 1:24:14 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: papasmurf; All

Ain’t that the truth. They deny her from assuming Senate because of an extramarital affair and Vatican says don’t send us “pro choice” people, so the geniuses at the WH figure, what about sending her to the Holy See? Yea, right.
Maybe Bambi should send up Dan Brown.


9 posted on 04/11/2009 1:25:58 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: SolidWood

Say what you will about the Catholic Church and it’s past scandals, but Pope Benedict was an inspired choice. He’s quietly changing the standards and psychological testing for seminarians. He understands where the “sickness” within the Church is coming from and is taking steps to make sure it’s addressed.

Rejecteding pro-abortion (let’s call it what it is) candidates for ambassdor to the Vatican is yet another indication that Pope Benedict is serious about making sure the Vatican is sending the right message.

I know someone is going to ask why he doesn’t stop Obama’s speech and honorary degree at Notre Dame, but contrary to what some believe, the Catholic Church isn’t a dictatorship.


10 posted on 04/11/2009 1:26:49 PM PDT by Jackson57
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To: SolidWood

Good! The Kennedys are not Catholic.


11 posted on 04/11/2009 1:27:01 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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Poor Bambi can’t catch a break. And Louis Farakahn was unavailable..


12 posted on 04/11/2009 1:28:01 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: SolidWood

“Oh, Caroline, NO !”


13 posted on 04/11/2009 1:28:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: SolidWood

This is very good news.


14 posted on 04/11/2009 1:29:10 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SolidWood
The press is playing this like it was a surprise.

I'm sure from Rome's perspective, this was yet another example of insulting, clueless behavior from the American Administration in its relations with Europe. The added dimension of insulting The Church and Catholics world wide just makes it a deeper, more disconcerting error.

15 posted on 04/11/2009 1:29:37 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: avg_freeper

You know,... like, you know, totally blocked, you know...

Princess Caroline is a raging pot head!


16 posted on 04/11/2009 1:30:00 PM PDT by katiekins1 (I Bow to No One)
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To: SolidWood

If Margaret Sanger were alive, 0dumbo would have nominated her.


17 posted on 04/11/2009 1:31:55 PM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: SolidWood
How many pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican has Obama put forward only to have each of them rejected for that reason by the Pope? What was that definition of insanity again?

Obama is trying to personally embarrass the Pope and is failing at it. There are pro-life, or at least silent on the issue, Democrats who could be sent? Obama is specifically not choosing them after the first couple rejections. Next step will be to just not appoint an ambassador just to make the point.

18 posted on 04/11/2009 1:32:47 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: SolidWood

Caroline Kennedy is married to a Jewish fella. And, the Vatican can’t wrap its mind around that!

While up ahead, who knows? Maybe, Obama is keeping score? He seems to desire to give Carolina a plum. And, there are more plums in his basket. While the Vatican my rue the day it tangled with Obama.

True. You’re not there, yet. But no one is gonna convince the republican grass roots of anything. While, yes. Elections losses, in the past, have been known to do the trick.

You know, Investors Business Daily (NOT a democratic organ), had a wonderful article yesterday entitled: FOR PIRATES, OBAMA’S BIG STICK.

Anyway, IBD says the pirates are gonna have to go into some other line of work? Hey. I know. The Vatican has an opening for a “tip top” negotiator.

Having “belief” is fine. But reality checks are better.


19 posted on 04/11/2009 1:33:31 PM PDT by hihoherman
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To: SolidWood

Caroline Kennedy is married to a Jewish fella. And, the Vatican can’t wrap its mind around that!

While up ahead, who knows? Maybe, Obama is keeping score? He seems to desire to give Carolina a plum. And, there are more plums in his basket. While the Vatican my rue the day it tangled with Obama.

True. You’re not there, yet. But no one is gonna convince the republican grass roots of anything. While, yes. Elections losses, in the past, have been known to do the trick.

You know, Investors Business Daily (NOT a democratic organ), had a wonderful article yesterday entitled: FOR PIRATES, OBAMA’S BIG STICK.

Anyway, IBD says the pirates are gonna have to go into some other line of work? Hey. I know. The Vatican has an opening for a “tip top” negotiator.

Having “belief” is fine. But reality checks are better.


20 posted on 04/11/2009 1:33:53 PM PDT by hihoherman
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To: hihoherman

What the heck are you talking about?

GO POPE!


21 posted on 04/11/2009 1:38:12 PM PDT by ShandaLear (I LOVE RUSH!)
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To: SolidWood
She had been poised to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, but dropped out amid criticism that she lacked enough experience for the job. ...

And her reluctance to show us all how multi-multi-millionaire Kennedy's avoid income taxes while sticking it to the rest of us.

22 posted on 04/11/2009 1:38:47 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: SolidWood

ROTFLMAO!


23 posted on 04/11/2009 1:39:06 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: SolidWood

Obama is going have a hard time filling this post. Pro-life Democrats are as rare as hens teeth nowadays.

Perhaps if he went to the ranks of professional diplomats he would stand a chance of getting someone acceptable.


24 posted on 04/11/2009 1:39:15 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: hihoherman
Caroline Kennedy is married to a Jewish fella. And, the Vatican can’t wrap its mind around that!

Yeah whatever.

25 posted on 04/11/2009 1:39:27 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: SolidWood

She used to be beautiful


26 posted on 04/11/2009 1:40:20 PM PDT by dennisw (0gabe our very own Kenyan subprime president)
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To: SolidWood

This poor girl can’t get a job basically because her resume is atrocious... Her only experience with anything has been living in seclusion her entire life, until Barry’s but boys convinced her to publicly support him.

Then she sort of ran for a vacant Senate seat with a listening tour of New York, a performance that exposed her as naive and completely unready for prime time. And now they’re trying to shove down the Vatican’s throat.

Her support was key to swinging many Democrats in the direction of Obama, a man who may be even more naive than she is, so he should obviously be thanking her for making him the Dozehole-in-Chief... but insulting the Vatican by offering her as his rep was a pathetic and amateur move, like many of the decisions by this newbie administration.

I’m not too worried, I don’t think Caroline will be on food-stamps any time soon. She should just go back to what she does best... living in seclusion.


27 posted on 04/11/2009 1:42:55 PM PDT by jerod (They were pro-abortion, for gun control & wanted a cleaner environment at all cost - The NAZI party)
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To: SolidWood

I’m not sure if it’s outrageous incompetency of the Obama Administration or intentionally insulting behavior intended to demean and insult everyone.

Either way - Obama, the DNC and the Congressional Black Caucus are great threats to the Republic.


28 posted on 04/11/2009 1:43:28 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: SolidWood

I couldn’t be more pleased.

So now, in the Kennedy family’s true tradition, will she be carted off to a 30 day counseling/treatment facility and return to denounce the error of her previous beliefs?

Will Obama sue the Pope, ignore him or have his henchmen engage in a personal destruction campaign against the Pope and the Church’s faithful?

Will the black civil rights leaders, reverends and politicians argue that this is all because Obama is black and claim the Catholic church is now racist?

Is this the “test” Biden was speaking of?


29 posted on 04/11/2009 1:43:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to Survive, Obama Must Fail..... Obama=Failure in Chief with the Audacity of Dope.....)
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To: SolidWood
Haven't seen this anywhere in the American news media......
30 posted on 04/11/2009 1:45:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Bow? What bow? I didn't bow.)
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To: SolidWood

O might as well have nominated the swimmer himself.

This is a family with depraved morals. They are free to live their lives as they wish but honoring them is a slap in the face to all.


31 posted on 04/11/2009 1:46:14 PM PDT by Carley (President Obama Dropped a MOAB on America)
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To: papasmurf

Maybe Obama could persuade the UK to give her a knighthood. Sir Caroline Kennedy? :)- Well, they knighted Teddy, who is guilty of vehicular homicide, DUI, perjury, obstruction of justice, and leaving the scene of an accident, so why not knight a woman? Who cares?


32 posted on 04/11/2009 1:46:55 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: pleikumud

There isn’t a Kennedy that is deserving of even a white ribbon at a rescue shelter dog show!


33 posted on 04/11/2009 1:49:31 PM PDT by papasmurf (Guns didn't make America unsafe, Courts and Congress did!)
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To: SolidWood

Not a good year for Caroline Twit Kennedy. She wanted Hillary’s Senste seat and was rejected for that one too.
If she took lessons in how to stifle a “Ya know” she’d have a better chance. She’s just another dead head democrat.


34 posted on 04/11/2009 1:54:04 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (To stand up for Capitalism is to hope Teleprompter Boy fails.)
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To: SolidWood

Caroline Kennedy,
Rich girl N.Y. air head.


35 posted on 04/11/2009 1:55:06 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: hihoherman
While the Vatican my rue the day it tangled with Obama.

For a newbie, you say some really odd things, but this one takes the cake.

The Church stands against abortion and Caroline is pro-choice. It has nothing to do with whom she's married to.

36 posted on 04/11/2009 1:56:19 PM PDT by Neverforget01 (Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.)
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To: SolidWood

Uncle Teddy ain’t gonna like that.


37 posted on 04/11/2009 2:00:29 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: hihoherman

Tell the truth. How drunk were you when you wrote that?

I have no idea what that rambling was about.

Hmmm...maybe I’m drunk.


38 posted on 04/11/2009 2:01:17 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh)
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To: Wiseghy
...insulting, clueless behavior from the American Administration...

It's not clueless, it's deliberate. There is zero justification for a clueless argument. None. But every reason to consider Administration actions predetermined and carefully considered.

39 posted on 04/11/2009 2:02:17 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: big'ol_freeper; hihoherman
Tell the truth. How drunk were you when you wrote that?

*******************

Shhhhhhhhhh. I think he's asleep.

40 posted on 04/11/2009 2:04:51 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: hihoherman

Can’t you wait until after sundown to get s***faced?


41 posted on 04/11/2009 2:05:45 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Some articles are good to read.

Poor Caroline nobody wants her for anything, probably becaue she isnt qualified for anything.


42 posted on 04/11/2009 2:08:11 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: trisham

I did a search on his posts. Evidently he is a one man Israel lobbyist, since almost every thread he posts on pertains to Israel.


43 posted on 04/11/2009 2:08:49 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh)
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To: papasmurf

“I just love happy endings”.

You know.


44 posted on 04/11/2009 2:09:01 PM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: hihoherman

What are you talking about?? The Vatican could care less who her husband is.....SHE is PRO-DEATH of CHILDREN!......period.


45 posted on 04/11/2009 2:10:34 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SolidWood

Was Caroline reject #3 or #4?


46 posted on 04/11/2009 2:12:14 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: SolidWood

Wow! I think she has seen better days.


47 posted on 04/11/2009 2:13:24 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: SolidWood

I don’t know why this “uptown girl” Kennedy would want any public office. Almost every Kennedy to hold one, or in the public eye has met with some disaster, tragedy and/or scandal. I would think she would be content to stay in seclusion, and be thankful to have a peaceful life out of public view. Some people are never grateful for what they have. Ya know.


48 posted on 04/11/2009 2:14:45 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: ShandaLear
What the heck are you talking about?

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one thinking the same thing. She was rejected by the Pope because of her and her family's pro-choice position, not because her husband is Jewish.

49 posted on 04/11/2009 2:15:11 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: dennisw
She used to be beautiful

Yeah but she hasn't aged well. Lookin' more and more like Uncle Teddy every day.

50 posted on 04/11/2009 2:16:06 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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