The President did something pretty unique last week during his visit to Rome. He complained that American Roman Catholic Bishops were not all behind him and asked if the Pope might lend a helping hand sometime soon. Say, before November. You see, George W. Bush plans to run his campaign on divisive issues like gay marriage, abortion, and prayer in schools. He needs the Pope out there in Rome to call his American cousins and get them on the 2004 Bush campaign bandwagon and quick. National Catholic Reporter broke the story. It is unprecedented for an American president to seek help for a political campaign from a foreign leader – let alone a religious one. My suggestion: let’s skip the fall campaign and let John Kerry be president. Bush, who seems to hate the Constitutional separation between church and state, can have the job he really wants: Pope George the First.

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