{"id":6614,"date":"2016-03-07T04:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/07\/abdication-of-authority-4\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T04:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:39:16","slug":"abdication-of-authority-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/07\/abdication-of-authority-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdication of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"

The refusal of Pope Francis properly to confront and condemn radical Islam is a case of abdication of authority.  While Christians are being slaughtered, and their holy sites pulverized, the foolish Francis commits the No True Muslim Fallacy<\/a>.  The man is a clown:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Francis-clown-nose_med\"<\/a>We have too many clowns in high places: Bill Clinton, 'Bozo' de Blasio, Obama the POMO prez, 'Pope' Francis, and now the greatest show on earth, Trump the Clown.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do they all lack?  Gravitas<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think I am being unfair to Francis?  Then see here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is too much buffoonery in high places.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be nice to be able to expect from popes and presidents a bit of gravitas<\/em>, a modicum of seriousness, when they are instantiating their institutional roles.  What they do after hours is not our business.  So Pope Francis' clowning around does not inspire respect, any more than President Clinton's answering the question about his underwear.  Remember that one?  Boxers or briefs?  He answered the question!  All he had to do was calmly state, without mounting a high horse, "That is not a question that one asks the president of the United States."   And now we have the Orwellian Prevaricator himself in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, whose latest Orwellian idiocy <\/a>is that Big Government is the problem, not him, even though he is the poster boy, the standard bearer, like unto no one before him in U. S. history, of Big Government!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The refusal of Pope Francis properly to confront and condemn radical Islam is a case of abdication of authority.  While Christians are being slaughtered, and their holy sites pulverized, the foolish Francis commits the No True Muslim Fallacy.  The man is a clown: We have too many clowns in high places: Bill Clinton, 'Bozo' de … Continue reading “Abdication of Authority”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authority-and-its-abdication","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}