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NY Observer Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Pope Francis
http://observer.com/2015/07/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-and-pope-francis/-snip-
With great mercy to my readers, this will not be another story about the media mania surrounding the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump but a prediction that when September comes, and Pope Francis arrives on American soil, there will be a different kind of mania that will powerfully affect the course of the 2016 campaign: pope mania!
Francis will be visiting New York, Washington and Philadelphia, and he will give major addresses to the United Nations in New York and a joint session of Congress in Washington. The media will give saturation coverage to the popes visit, which will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the presidential campaign.
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NY Observer Op-Ed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Pope Francis (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Jul 2015
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)1. Very Interesting...
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OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)2. WOW!
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Bernie's on it! Since Francis's proclamations about the environment and helping the poor,
Bernie has made comparisons, including saying Francis II is to his (Bernie's) left. (That one may have been a tweet: I don't remember.)