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CNN: 'The Hope and Change Pope'

12:52 PM, Mar 19, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

A commentator on CNN dubbed Pope Francis "the hope and change pope" earlier today:

"He hasn't actually done much in the way of real policy changes of initiatives, and he certainly is the hope and change pope, but he's at the head of a body, the Vatican, that's very resistant to change," said the CNN commentator. "I've read, for instance, that observers say that you don't change the Vatican, the Vatican changes you."

UPDATE: The man on TV has been identified as CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman:

The high-water mark of hopey-changeyness

The Stakes Are High

The threat of Obama’s second term.

Oct 15, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 05 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

This is perhaps the most lucid, even-handed, and convincing examination to date of the threat that President Obama—and his potential reelection—poses to our republic. No one who reads I Am the Change will come away thinking this election is about the economy. In truth, this election pits America’s founding principles against Obama’s efforts to transform them.

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Happy Hour: From Hope and Change to 'Change is Not Simple'

7:00 PM, Apr 21, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Obama from "hope and change" to "This is a big complicated messy democracy. Change is not simple.” Smells like a winning campaign slogan to me.

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