(satirical) statement from * re: pope's death

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PRESIDENT'S REQUISITE KIND WORDS MAINTAINING FORMAL PROTESTANT NON-DELIGHT OVER THE DEATH OF POPE JOHN "PEACEMONGERING KING OF THE BOY-HUMPERS" PAUL II
Statement by the President

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. It's a real honor to be here in Rome. I really admire that whole "empire" thing you people invented. I learned all about it in a wonderful old documentary called Caligula.

So hey, have you heard the one about the Pollack Pope? He prayed to Buddha!

(Boos. Hurling of Rotten Fruit.)

Sheesh. Tough crowd. Well excuse me for trying to lighten the mood around here. Because yes, as any human being who's spent more than four seconds near a TV or radio this week can tell you, Pope John Paul II has at long last passed away at the obscenely too-ripe old age of 84. As such, the Catholic Church has lost its dress-wearing mascot, and decorum calls upon us real Christians to pretend to care.

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2005/040705.asp