The Pope, Bush, Kerry

On a tour of Texas, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit 
the coastal  area for some sightseeing. He was cruising along 
the seawall on  Galveston  Isle in his Pope mobile when suddenly 
he notices a frantic  commotion just off shore.  

There was John Kerry struggling frantically to free himself
from the jaws of a 25-foot shark. As the Pope watched,  
horrified, a speedboat came racing up with two men aboard.  
One of the men, President George W. Bush quickly fired a 
harpoon into the shark's side while  Vice President Dick Cheney 
reached out and pulled the bleeding, semi-conscious John Kerry 
from the  water. Then  using  baseball bats, the  two  heroes 
beat  the shark to death and hauled it into the boat. 

Immediately the Pope shouted and summoned them to the  beach. 
"I  give you my  blessings for your brave actions," he told them. 
"I heard  that  there was some bitter hatred between President 
Bush  and John Kerry,  but  now I have  seen with my own eyes 
that this is not true."

As the Pope drove off, President Bush asked Dick "Who was that?"  
  
"It was the Pope," Dick replied. "He is very religious and reported to 
be very wise."
"Well," President Bush said, "he may be very wise, but he doesn't 
know squat about shark fishing........how's the bait holding up?"