Dear livius,
I'm sorry, but I disagree strongly with you. Cardinal McCarrick has been very media savvy while here in Washington. It seems like he was in the local papers on TV almost continuously. His profile was MUCH higher than that of Cardinal Hickey or Cardinal Baum. Of course, Cardinal O'Boyle lived in a different era, altogether.
As for handling politicians, are you kidding? Cardinal McCarrick was the FIRST invited guest to the White House after President Bush was inaugurated. Cardinal McCarrick worked behind the scenes to get a limited voucer program for Washington, DC public school kids, actually getting some of the looniest moonbat Democrat politicians in this region to climb aboard the voucher bandwagon, or at least to keep their stupid yaps shut, and not oppose it.
It may be that Cardinal McCarrick used neither the media nor politicians in a way that pleased you, but he knew what he was doing, and often got precisely what he wanted, for better or worse.
sitetest
Thanks for the correction. McCarrick didn't have a very high profile outside of DC, though, and he often came across as ambiguous in his statements (to the world outside of DC, at least). Again, that's my view from the outside, but people who live there probably have a better idea. In any case, I hope your new Bishop Wuerl is going to work out well, and I'm sure he'll have a big job ahead of him.
Agree. McCarrick is a good, honest and likable guy who was gracious and interesting everytime I saw him speak - and that included many gatherings with mixed political mindsets. The uninformed people who call him a "liberal" have never met him or heard him speak at length. I would not call him a "conservative" either - I guess if you do not check every box in the political conservative menu to hell and perdition with you.
Wuerl's a perfect choice!!