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Lodestar

(2,388 posts)
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:16 AM Apr 2016

Who said it? Bernie Sanders or the Pope?

Last edited Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:57 AM - Edit history (3)

An online Q & A. Test your knowledge:

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/04/us/bernie-sanders-pope-who-said-it/


CNN should create another Q&A. for Hillary that reads something like:

Who Said It? Hillary or the Republicans?

That would be revealing, eh!

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JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
1. That was fun! Missed 1. No wonder the Vatican invited Bernie-they are on the same wavelength! n/t
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:41 AM
Apr 2016

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
3. The odds worked in our favor that they lived in the same era and came to
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 06:47 AM
Apr 2016

public prominence at the same time, when the world needed them both.

I'm an Atheist, but the sybolism of a Jew and the Pope, at the Vatican, working to focus the eyes of the world on economic solutions to the plight of the poor, sick and elderly of the world, and to the plight of our poor, sick old world does not escape me.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
5. Two human men, whose tranisition to greatness give real meaning to 'evolving'
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 08:07 AM
Apr 2016

The early lives of both men are quite human. Enlivened by ideology, certainly, but also dealing with the reality of being human and making human mistakes.

The difference between HRC's learning to be a weather-vane for political winds and two men who actually rose to global significance by demonstrating personal growth is pretty stark.

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