PopeWatch wonders who read the encyclical for Joe:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden quoted from Pope Francis’ new encyclical Fratelli Tutti on the campaign trail Tuesday, and within moments of reciting the pope’s words, Donald Trump’s reelection campaign had taken the pope’s words out of context in an attempt to use them against the former vice president.
“At times, in thinking of the future, we do well to ask ourselves, ‘Why I am doing this?,’ ‘What is my real aim?,’ ” writes Francis in his encyclical, which was released Oct. 3, in discussing the questions politicians need to ask themselves when assessing their motives.
Biden repeated those questions while speaking in Warm Springs, Georgia, on Oct. 27, saying “Pope Francis has asked questions that anyone who seeks to lead this great nation should answer.”
In a tweet minutes after the former vice president delivered his remarks, the “Trump War Room” social media account, managed by the campaign, clipped only those questions — ‘Why am I doing this?,’ ‘What is my real aim?,’ — from Biden’s remarks quickly turning it into a meme.
Joe Biden: “Why am I doing this? Why? What is my real aim?” pic.twitter.com/pNPfzirGjO
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 27, 2020
Go here to read the rest. Of course his puppet masters will answer those questions for Joe, in time, if he prevails next week.
This is the question everyone should be asking the Pope to answer for himself: ‘Why I am doing this?,’ ‘What is my real aim?,’”