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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if a US politician showed the same kind of reform as Pope Francis?
Complete 180 from current, bored, tired, old, go nowhere policy.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)I like much of what he's said, but I didn't know he'd changed anything yet.
MFM008
(19,806 posts)if he could overcome the tea party. Look at John Huntsman, some of his positions involved a degree of sanity.... I think he was out first......
Awknid
(381 posts)Look at what they did to JFK and Bobby. And they were not radical at all!
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)The day JFK was assassinated every bill of his legislative program was hopelessly stalled in Congress. Within less than two years? LBJ got the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and Head Start passed and enacted into law.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Talk about how awful capitalism is while raking in millions?
Not fix some fundamental problem in the system (especially for women, children and gays) because The Bible Says?
Almost every politician in America has already BEEN Francis.
Wake me when the actions are equal to the words.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)His reform record is far greater than the Pope's.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)A president can't: there's a little thing called Congress, not to mention the Supreme Court. Our Constitution metes out certain jobs to each of these powers, and one may block the actions of another.
In other words, the president is not the pope.