Tough Week For Hillary As Bernie Talks To Vatican

Kathleen Parker 10:08 p.m. MDT April 8, 2016

WASHINGTON — Imagine emerging from a rocky political week only to announce, as Bernie Sanders did, that, oh, by the way, the Vatican called. Actually, it was the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, but close enough, I suppose.

Hillary Clinton thought bubble: He’s Jewish, for crying out loud. What am I, chopped liver? No, I’m Methodist! But if I can become a New Yorker, I can become a Catholic.

Some people have all the kismet. Or, sometimes people just happen to agree that communism isn’t really so bad. OK, I’m exaggerating, but only a smidgeon.

Sanders is merely a democratic socialist, which sounds almost nice but means more or less equal misery. The pope is something else entirely. A pastoral leader who washes the feet of the homeless and eschews the elaborate trappings of the corner office, he’s the real deal, as in living as Christ did. He’s also a great, big troublemaker.

“People think Bernie Sanders is radical,” Bernie Sanders said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Uh-uh. Read what the pope is writing these days.”

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