Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Oh, Noes! Caroline Kennedy rejected as ambassador to the Vatican!

Okay, that's it. Whoever is doing the vetting for President Obama needs to be fired. What kind of dumbass picks three prochoice Catholics to be the ambassador to the Vatican? I mean, freakin' Caroline Kennedy??? What the hell, man? And why is it that Obama can bow to a sheik, but not have the decency to find a prolifer to be an ambassador to the Vatican? Geez!

Before you start bashing on the Vatican about turning down Kennedy for the ambassadorship, consider that she's only available for the position because her state turned her down for the senate seat. So she's been dissed twice now (she's probably saying to herself right now, "Where's the love, man?"). And before you start saying that the Vatican turned down Kennedy because she's a woman, I say pfft! The previous ambassador the the Vatican was a woman!

The Vatican is entirely within its rights to accept only those candidates whose views are consistent with its teachings. Rather than cite the Vatican for its supposed "intolerance", criticism instead rightly belongs to the Obama administration for its lack of respect to nominate candidates that will not offend the Vatican. This is not rocket science, after all.

Also consider that if Obama had gone through as much trouble finding a suitable candidate to represent the U.S. to the Vatican as he went through finding a "First Dog", then this issue would have been settled a long time ago with no controversy. Still, that dog better watch out for himself. For all he knows, he's going to be the Obama administration's nominee as ambassador to the cat kingdom.

2 comments:

blackink said...

"Still, that dog better watch out for himself. For all he knows, he's going to be the Obama administration's nominee as ambassador to the cat kingdom."

Ha. That's a nice line.

But hey, remember, he didn't go through a lot of trouble searching for that dog. The ridiculous coverage about it made it seem that way. I doubt he gave much more than a passing thought about how to go about getting The First Canine.

All that said, I sorta agree that Obama should have gone ahead and nominated someone with anti-abortion beliefs for the Vatican ambassadorship.

While I'm pretty much pro-choice, I can certainly see why the "choice" of Kennedy poses a problem.

John P. Araujo said...

I can sum up what I said in this sentence: Obama needs better vetters. :-P