Who is stronger in usa, pope or president or madonna?
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Depends on who you ask.\n\nThe President Power\n\nVice President Dick Cheney recently told the Washington Post that when the Bush administration entered office, it was determined to reinvigorate the presidency and reverse the steady reduction in executive power and prerogative that had persisted since Watergate. But what reduction could the vice president have had in mind? “The vice president,” noted Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.), “may be the only person I know of that believes the executive has somehow lost power over the last 30 years.”\n\nWhether or not the vice president was correct in his analysis of the state of the presidency in the year 2000, there can be no question that since then George W. Bush has dramatically expanded the powers of the president—primarily though not exclusively in matters pertaining to the war on terror.\n\nOne of the most notorious examples involved the torture of prisoners, a power the administration claimed in the face of law and international agreements to the contrary. “The assertion in the various legal memoranda that the President can order the torture of prisoners despite statutes and treaties forbidding it was another reach for presidential hegemony,” wrote Anthony Lewis in the New York Review of Books. “The basic premise of the American constitutional system is that those who hold power are subject to the law … . Bush’s lawyers seem ready to substitute something like the divine right of kings.”\n\nArguably the greatest controversy of all was the revelation at the end of 2005 that the Bush administration had engaged in domestic surveillance without the necessary warrants. James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, points out the pertinent aspects of what would appear to be the relevant law: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), passed in 1978. According to Bamford, then-Attorney General Griffin Bell testified before the intelligence committee that FISA acknowledged no “inherent power of the President to conduct electronic surveillance.” As Bell himself put it, “This bill specifically states that the procedures in the bill are the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be conducted.”\n\nIn the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush administration officials spoke again and again of the president’s inherent powers. But the pertinent statute in this case disclaims any such powers and requires that the president proceed according to the guidelines set out by Congress, which involves securing warrants from a special court. As things stand, the president is claiming a right to engage in surveillance of any American, unrestrained by any institutional check, in the service of the war on terror—a war that by its very nature must go on indefinitely and, indeed, that we can never really know is truly over.\n\nAccording to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the reason the administration did not seek to revise FISA to give the president the clear and unambiguous power to order these wiretaps was that even a Republican Congress would not have gone along. In a Dec. 19 press briefing, the attorney general said, “We have had discussions with Congress in the past—certain members of Congress—as to whether or not FISA could be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat, and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”\n\nThe administration’s claim, as set forth by the attorney general, is that Congress implicitly agreed to such wiretaps when in the days following Sept. 11 it authorized the use of force against the perpetrators and their allies. Of course, if Congress really had authorized them, it is not clear why it would be so difficult for the administration to persuade Congress to amend FISA accordingly in light of this permission.\n\nGonzales’s argument calls to mind H.L. Mencken’s 1937 “Constitution for the New Deal,” a satirical rewrite of the U.S Constitution, whi
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Madonna ,Michaell Jackson...Just google them :-)
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The Pope. He presides over a congregation of over 1 billion believers. Which makes Catholicism, and vis-a-vis him, the most dominant form of Christianity out there.
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madonna or kelly clarckson???? At least they are not as bitc** as Beyonce....
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No, never. She does not have the intelligence or morality to be president. The only reason she is so popular is because of her lack of morality. She supports abortion, gay-marriage, and anything else Christ condemns. Then, she has the nerve to say she is Christian. Then again, this hypocrisy relates to most politicians.
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George Bush - hands down
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Exactly. Pope John Paul was a great man. He should be an example for all of us. I strive to uphold his example in my every day life.
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They're both nuts, next time you see video footage of Mussolini, check out the glazed "what me worry" look in his eyes, you will see the same thing with Bush, except he may be drooling also. I would have to say Bush.
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Hillary Clinton in both cases.\n\nCondolezza Rice sold out and supported a crazy president (bush) and his crazy ideas including invading iraq.
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Pope John Paul XXIII\nTerry Schaivo\nOsama Bin Laden\nBono\nOdieguy3000 :)
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I think Madonna opened a lot of doors for female artists of today.  No other woman has ever had the guts to do the things she did and is still doing.  Even though there are some things about her that I disagree with, her courage and strength is very admirable.  Standing up for her beliefs and never caring about what critics say, her not being a hypocrite, her diversity and her talents in the music business, her spirituality, her two children and husband G.R., her mental stability, her hardwork for personal success, and her journey from being a middle-class American to a worldwide phenomenon proves she not only has talent but has the ability to knock out haters and traitors over the 20+ years of her career.  I like her because of the above reasons.  Another plus is that she did it all on her own and never went insane.  Her family did not help her out at first.  She deserves all the money she has earned because she hardly ever disses her colleagues and she is no freeloader.  So, yes...I like Madonna.
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Jesus, Pope John Paul II, Richard Nixon.\n\nI need to pick more than 3...\nAlexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, William Rehnquist, Condoleeza Rice, George Bush (Sr. and Jr.), The Edge from U2, and the guy from school that I never had the nerve to talk to.
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Madonna without a doubt and you should no that if your dr no as she was in Die abother Day too.
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Is the pope catholic? Both Tony Blair and George 'dubya' Bush are the biggest pair of gobshites in the whole of christendom!
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The Roman Catholic Religion.  It is the true religion instituted by our Lord, Jesus Christ, Himself.\nPope Benedict XVI has a direct lineage from St. Peter whom Jesus Christ, in the beginning annointed as "the Rock." of His Church.  The similarity of which is George Bush now, from George Washington, our first  US President.  There is a historical linkage.
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There have been over 250 popes. I definitely don't know enough to judge properly.\n\nHowever if I had to take a shot, I would vote for St Peter. Anyone who can deny Christ three times, be redeemed and lead the early Church is okay with me.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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I think I'd go with Queen Elizabeth.  There is just something about Pope Benedict that I don't like.