Posted on 04/06/2005 4:27:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
All this adulation of John Paul II, a man of monumental moral stature, must be gnawing at MSM innards.
You could almost hear the command go out from the NBC honchos: "find me something we can use to bash a conservative. Make it Bush if you can."
And sure enough, Today managed to come up with a great two-fer this morning, managing to take swipes at both W and Condi over the exclusion of Jimmy Carter from the US delegation to the papal funeral.
Andrea Mitchell, reporting the story, clearly wasn't buying the White House line that Carter politely asked himself to be removed from the invitation list when he learned that space was very limited.
Tongues-a-clucking, Katie and Andrea wondered aloud at least three times why the White House didn't simply ask the Vatican for one more invitation, "especially because Pres. Carter was the first and only president to invite the Pope to the White House, and shared an interest with him in Third World issues."
Andrea surmised this was all pay-back for Carter's harsh criticism of the Iraq war, which he called a "quagmire," predicting the failure of the January elections.
Not content to snipe at W, Today also managed to get in a shot at Condi. Asked Katie "under the circumstances, wouldn't the right thing have been for Condi Rice to step aside and give Carter her place?"
Mitchell acknowledged that, after all, the Vatican is a state, and as the chief diplomatic official it was logical for Condi to attend. Nevertheless, Andrea opined that Rice should have ceded her seat to Mr. Peanut.
You could almost hear the sigh of relief on the set and in the NBC executive suites. After an intolerable week, Today was back doing what it does best: bashing Republicans.
The truth is that it is probably the safest place for the President to sit. They can't attack W without hitting the Iranian president.
If you weren't an adult during the Carter years, you really missed something. Disco was the HIGH point!
Ooops.
My catholic childhood is showing.
Been a long time since we had a "Pius".
He must have been that bad if Disco was the High point of the 70's. If it wasn't for Nixon, he would not have won at all.
Yup. That's the way it works.If Hoover hadn't gotten us into the Depression, FDR wouldn't have any credit for getting us out of it. And if Carter hadn't fouled foreign and domestic policy up beyond all recognition, Reagan would merely have been the president to transcend Communism.
As it is, Reagan was the president who
- got the country going again,
- whipped inflation,
- ended the energy crisis, and
- transcended Communism.
And if he wants to go to the Pope's funeral, he can buy a ticket on Lufthansa. He can even put it on his ex-President expense account.
He is proving to be just as big a failure as a former president as he was in office.
Wow...reading that list of catastrophes reminded me too, what a poor leader he was.
Thanks for the briefing and the laugh. Very funny.
Wow...that's great to know...thanks for pointing that out.
>There is a congressional delegation going, including Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and John Kerry.<
>>I assume they are going to be seated in the apostates' section.<<
LOL! Two of them hoped to make this country "The United
Apostates Of America!
Do you have the feeling that poor ol jimmy has been crying on Andrea's and Katie's shoulders....
I am ashamed to say the last democrat I voted for was Carter. I thought he was honest.
LOL, I can almost hear them.
If Carter wanted to see the Pope, then he'd be on his way to Rome right now. He's a former president of the United States--nobody's going to "disinvite" him. It's Carter's choice if he wants to attend or not.
Notice that we don't hear any whining from First Lady Barbara Bush, and mother to the current President, not accompanying her husband and son to the funeral. SHE has class.
And like I now see that others have pointed out, President Ford has not said BOO about not being part of the official deligation.
Jimmah has been openly very critical of our President--at least Bubba knows when to shut his lip-bitten yap. Also, Jimmah worked AGAINST what the Pope was trying to do in Latin America, and openly so. Bucky was SUPPORTIVE of the radical movement that was working AGAINST my loving Pope.
And Bucky has been a buggin' the Vatican in a BIG way about his non-invite.
Brusque Bucky bugs me bigtime broadly beyond Bulbous Bubba.
Bucky, buck-teethingly bite my bounteous bung.
Did *I* say that? ;-)
and changing the less than horonable discharge John Kerry received from the Navy.
Two Popes died during Carter's own term - and he didn't attend either funeral. He sent Rosalyn as head of the delegation to Pope Paul's funeral, and sent Miss Lillian as head of the delegation for the services for John Paul I.
He had his chance.
Ugh. Deligation=delegation. Dang. Duh.
Exactly--it's Carter's choice. He's 80 years old, maybe just doesn't feel like making the trip. I can't fault him for that.
Word.
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