What if a US politician showed the same kind of reform as Pope Francis?

[tina tron]

Complete 180 from current, bored, tired, old, go nowhere policy.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. What exactly has he reformed?

I like much of what he's said, but I didn't know he'd changed anything yet.

[MFM008]

2. im not sure

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]

3. There'd out him before he could do any good

Look at what they did to JFK and Bobby. And they were not radical at all!

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Really?

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]

4. He would have the name Elizabeth

[JaneyVee]

5. He wouldn't win a single red state including the Bible Belt.

[LadyHawkAZ]

6. Like...say a lot of really appealing things, but not actually change anything?

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]

8. Perhaps you have not heard of this guy called Obama?

His reform record is far greater than the Pope's.

[frazzled]

9. The pope can order up any reform he wants

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.

Papal supremacy refers to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that the pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ and as pastor of the entire Christian Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: that, in brief, "the Pope enjoys, by divine institution, supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls."