Nun, 106, supports Barack Obama

[Bluebear]

ROME (Reuters) - A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting for Barack Obama is "startled and a bit anguished" by all the attention she is getting, her order said on Monday.

Sister Cecilia Gaudette, born on March 25, 1902, has decided to step out of the limelight and back into the comfortable obscurity that characterized her life before the media discovered that she will be one of the oldest Americans to vote.

"Sister Cecilia is tired, she is startled and she is even a bit anguished by all the attention," Sister Carmen Aymar, a deputy superior general at the convent in Rome where the voting nun lives, told Reuters by phone. "Now she wants to be left alone," Aymar said....

"I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she told the BBC. "I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern."...

Gaudette said her hope for the future included peace in the world and an end to the war in Iraq.


http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE49C3RO20081013


Video here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4516279n%3fsource=search_video

(Note: note some of the freeper comments under the video picking on a 106-year old nun.)

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[bigtree]

2. whoo hoo!

:woohoo:

[supernova]

3. Thought it was about Sam Nunn

*Hangs head in shame*



Cool nun! :thumbsup: :D

[Bluebear]

6. I think Sam is older :)

[DireStrike]

4. "a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern."

Jeee-sus. No, seriously. JESUS! Come back down here and talk some sense into your bedroom-peering-into "followers"!

Eh, she is old (fashioned) so maybe she meant it in a different way.

[leftchick]

5. God Love Her!

Thank You Thank You!

[lpbk2713]

7. You go, girl.

:thumbsup: :hi: :thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

8. There's nun finer

It's good to get into the habit of voting Democratic.

OK, OK, I'm going now....

[mmonk]

9. .

:spank:

[Bluebear]

11. .

:spank:

[csorman]

10. I love nuns.

I am not all that religious, but I consider myself to be personally spiritual. When my dad was sick and needed life-saving heart surgery many years ago, a local Catholic writer and friend of the family had arranged for all the nuns in the area (Twin Cities) to pray for my dad, and he came through the surgery with remarkable success. I still thank these nuns every day. They know true peace, and no matter where you stand on the "is there a God" debate, you have to feel some power in that kind of compassion.

These are the same nuns that quickly made arrangements to host Archbishop Desmond Tutu when St. Thomas University (jerks) rejected his appearance because of his progressive stances on various issues. GO NUNS!!! Nuns 1, St. Thomas 0.