Neil Bush has ties to a pope who used his power to influence our election

Ain't that swell?http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1411847


NEWSDAY, Thursday, April 21, 2005

THE NEW POPE BENEDICT XVI
Neil Bush, Ratzinger co-founders
President's younger brother served with then-cardinal on board of relatively unknown ecumenical foundation

BY KNUT ROYCE AND TOM BRUNE
WASHINGTON BUREAU

April 21, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Neil Bush, the president's controversial younger brother, six years ago joined the cardinal who this week became Pope Benedict XVI as a founding board member of a little known Swiss ecumenical foundation. The charter members of the board were all well-known international religious figures, except for Bush and his close friend and business partner, Jamal Daniel, whose family has extensive holdings in the United States and Switzerland, public records show.

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Gary Vachicouras, a theologian and foundation official in Geneva, would not explain in a telephone interview yesterday why Bush, who has no clear public connection to religious causes, was on the first board.

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The foundation, based at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Geneva, is listed by Dun & Bradstreet business credit reports as a management trust for purposes other than education, religion, charity or research. But Vachicouras said the designation must be a mistake of translation to English because the foundation is a private nonprofit established under Swiss law. He said the foundation is being "relaunched" on its mission to publish the original text of the Bible's Old Testament in Hebrew, its New Testament in Greek and the Quran in Arabic.

Fatio, who left the board three years ago, said the foundation "never had any money." Vachicouras declined to discuss finances. He said, "We keep a low profile because that makes it easier to get work done."

Copyright © 2005, Newsday, Inc.

Surprise, surprise, surprise, NOT

Asian hookers, German cardinals. Neil's just a "people person."
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everything that's good, pure and holy?

Despite the fact that you may have come from a family which has historically hated New Englanders, what have the Bushes® ever done to YOU!? Your hatred is terribly unbecoming, and may cause zits.

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:sarcasm:

I wish I was suprised.

would just love to make it more difficult to reconcile being a Democrat with Catholicism.


I've been reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo" book and I've been thinking about branding as it relates to Christianity, Republicanism and perhaps the Bush Klan.

It could really be a problem - if people have been brainwashed into thinking that they (Christianity, Republicanism, Bush) are linked - in a 'branding' sort of way.

since his ugly DEEEEE-vorce

Hmmmmm. Neil is a very busy boy isn't he.

Dupe with commentary at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3520470

It's all right, of course...

but since you have a commentary attached to yours I will ask the mods to either lock this one or combine it with yours

Hissy of me, I know, but one thread per topic tends to keep it higher, longer.

The LBN thread now has lots of links to the various organizations and characters involved in this "ecumenical" enterprise.

And another thread has brought up the old Neil Bush-John Hinckley connection! Almost forgot that!