Feb 27, 2009 1:22pm
Quotes Of The Day: Pope Benedict, Rahm Emanuel, John McCain, Keith Stansell
EmailThe financial crisis has been caused by "human avarice and idolatry that go against the true God and the falsification of the image of God with another god — Mammon. We must denounce this with courage." — Pope Benedict XVI
"The public wants bipartisanship. We just have to try. We don’t have to succeed." Rahm Emanuel
"I am cautiously optimistic that the plan as laid out by the president can lead to success." John McCain, on President Obama’s plans for withdrawing troops from Iraq
"I watched her try to take over the camp with an arrogance that was out of control. Some of the guards treated us better than she did." Keith Stansell, former U.S. hostage in Colombia, speaking of fellow hostage and Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
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‘The financial crisis has been caused by “human avarice and idolatry that go against the true God and the falsification of the image of God with another god — Mammon. We must denounce this with courage.” — Pope Benedict XVI ‘
he said while wearing gold robes ,drink 300$/bottle wine, and living in a 67 million dollar fortress.
Ta, ta ,, he waved as he got into his 130K car, on his way to his private jet at his own airport ” dont’ forget to eat cake!”
Posted by: Realilty | February 27, 2009, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
What no quote from Ron Paul?
Posted by: Huh | February 27, 2009, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
Realilty—the Pope flies on Al Italia not a private jet. “human avirice” is the nail on the head.
Posted by: Paul Wall | February 27, 2009, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
“The public wants bipartisanship. We just have to try. We don’t have to succeed.” Rahm Emanuel
you’ve tried enough Rahm, now it’s time to kick ***.
Posted by: Paul Wall | February 27, 2009, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
Does the general public want bipartisanship? Bipartisanship is a word that Washington folks are hung up on. I feel the public wants not figureheads but leaders to do the right things – to lead with postive thoughts and integrity. People do not want one order zombie lovefest – difference in opinions is what made this country a melting pot of great ideas and growth potential. We need more people who will convey and appreciate how great this country is vs. squabbling over the lame word bipartisanship…
Posted by: aray | February 27, 2009, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
William, it just goes to show, there is always common ground somewhere.
I thank you for the above.
Posted by: cc | February 27, 2009, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
I have no problem with the Pope or the Catholic church at all; however, it borders on disengenuous for the Pope to lecture about avarice and love of money when the Catholic church is one of the world’s wealthiest institutions–the Vatican alone is a testament to a beautiful, but still shocking amount of expensive and ostentatious excess, to say nothing of the unfathomable wealth of it’s priceless art collection alone. At best, the Pope is preaching to the choir when talking about excess wealth and love of money–clearly no one in the vatican or many other cathedrals takes their vow of ‘poverty’ very seriously.
Posted by: Jim | February 27, 2009, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
the Catholic Church is a wealthy institution but priests and nuns take vows of poverty. the church spends very much (billions), all over the world in fighting disease, starvation and famine, providing education and building schools. to compare the pope to corrupt american bankers is twisted and not an arguement made in good faith.
Posted by: Paul Wall | February 27, 2009, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
I am fully aware of the many good deeds the Catholic church does (along with most other faiths); it still doesn’t change the fact that most Catholic cathedrals, and especially the Vatican, glitter with ostentatious wealth, that the clergy living there surely enjoys. Nothing wrong with that–just that the Pope lecturing about love of money needs to look in his Church’s mirror first before pontificating. And there’s nothing ‘hit and run’ about these posts–blogs are to make a statement; they aren’t meant for ‘meaningful dialogue;’ no one with a meaningful life has time to sit here and wait to see who else wants to answer their post; these are simply forums to express honest opinions, and I still stand by mine to the nth degree
Posted by: Jim | February 27, 2009, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm