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Page 10A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Saturday, April 16, 2016 That’s rude: More say GOP is discourteous Associated Press Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP Backdropped by St. Peter’s Basilica dome, Bernie Sanders meets reporters outside the Perugino gate at the Vatican, Friday. At the Vatican, Sanders blasts wealth inequality status quo, which includes “corrupt and broken politics VATICAN CITY — and an economy of stark Bernie Sanders issued a inequality and injustice.” During the meetings, he global call to action at the Vatican on Friday to address sat next to the other main “immoral and unsustain- guest of honor at the Vatican: able” wealth inequality and Bolivian President Evo poverty, using the high-pro- Morales, whose is renowned ¿OHJDWKHULQJWRHFKRRQHRI for his anti-imperialist, the central platforms of his socialist rhetoric. President Rafael Correa of Ecuador presidential campaign. The Democratic senator also attended. As he walked through from Vermont cited Pope Francis and St. John Paul II Vatican City’s Perugino repeatedly during his speech gate, Sanders was greeted to the Vatican conference about two dozen supporters, commemorating the 25th some of whom carried signs anniversary of a landmark bearing Sanders’ name. teaching document from ³7KLVLVWKH¿UVWFDQGLGDWH, John Paul on social and have seen in awhile, a matter economic justice after the of fact my entire life, that I feel like wants to make real Cold War. Sanders arrived in Rome changes,” said Kevin Jaksik, hours after wrapping up 29, of Austin, Texas, who a debate in New York now lives in Rome. Back home, Clinton holds Thursday night, saying the opportunity to address the D VLJQL¿FDQW GHOHJDWH OHDG Vatican conference was against Sanders, but the too meaningful to pass up. senator has vowed to stay The roughly 24-hour visit in the campaign until the precedes Tuesday’s crucial party’s July convention. His New York primary, which message calling for a polit- Sanders must do well in to ical revolution to address maintain a viable challenge wealth inequality and the to Democratic front-runner LQÀXHQFH RI :DOO 6WUHHW RQ U.S. politics has galvanized Hillary Clinton. Pope Francis apologized many Democrats and inde- that he couldn’t personally pendents. Despite being enmeshed greet participants at the Vatican conference. No in an increasingly bitter meeting with Sanders was campaign against Clinton, Sanders aides said the trip expected. But the trip gave Sanders was not aimed at appealing a moment on the world to Catholic voters who stage, placing him alongside comprise a large share of priests, bishops, academics the Democratic electorate in and two South American New York and an upcoming presidents. Sanders has been contest in Pennsylvania. The Vatican has been at a disadvantage during his campaign against Clinton, loath to get involved in President Barack Obama’s electoral campaigns and former secretary of state, on usually tries to avoid any issues of foreign policy but perception of partisanship he was peppered with ques- involving the pope. Popes tions from academics and rarely travel to countries ecclesiastics in a manner that during the thick of political might have been afforded a campaigns, knowing a papal photo opportunity with a head of state. Sanders trails Clinton in sitting head of state could be the Democratic primaries exploited for political ends. As a result, the invitation but the trip to the Vatican and his massive rally earlier this to Sanders to address the week with 27,000 people in Vatican conference raised New York City may have eyebrows and allegations offered a glimpse of the that the senator lobbied for senator’s aim to become a the invitation. The chancellor for the progressive leader, win or SRQWL¿FDO DFDGHP\ %LVKRS lose. The discussions gave Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, him a chance to expand has said he invited Sanders on his core campaign because he was the only U.S. messages about the need to presidential candidate who reform banking regulations, showed deep interest in the FDPSDLJQ ¿QDQFH UXOHV DQG teachings of Francis. The Rev. Matt Malone, higher education. Asked about inequality in public editor of the Jesuit magazine education, he said it was America, said Sanders’ trip “beyond disgraceful” and was unlikely to have much of cited challenging conditions an impact on Catholic voters, noting that conferences like in Detroit’s school system. He told the audience the one Sanders is attending that rather than a world “happen all the time.” “I don’t think that Bernie economy that looks out for the common good, “we have Sanders going to the Vatican been left with an economy is going to help Bernie with operated for the top 1 Catholics any more than percent, who get richer and Ted Cruz going to a matzo richer as the working class, factory is going to help him the young and the poor fall with the Jewish vote,” said Malone, who served as a further and further behind.” “We don’t choose to speechwriter to former Rep. politicize the pope,” Sanders Marty Meehan, a Massachu- told attendees, “but his spirit setts Democrat. But there were other and courage and the fact, if I may say so here, that his EHQH¿WV 7KH WULS RIIHUHG words have gone way, way, his extended family a brief way beyond the Catholic respite: Sanders was accom- panied on the trip by his Church.” Sanders also warned that wife, Jane Sanders, and 10 youth around the world are family members, including QR ORQJHU VDWLV¿HG ZLWK WKH four grandchildren. Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ask Americans about bad manners in the 2016 presi- dential campaign and the conversation shifts immediately to Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner who has branded his critics, “little,” ‘’lyin,” ‘’low-en- ergy” and worse. “I don’t recall anyone stirring up as much of a fuss as Mr. Trump,” says Sidney Waldman, 81, a retired book store owner in Key West, Florida. “He just does not need to say things the way he says them. It may get attention now, but he is going to be remembered in a negative way.” “He’s a bully,” says Kellie Zangrillo, 53, of Auburn, Washington, like Waldman an independent. Trump not only may have set the tone in the campaign, she suggested, but his nasty words could have real consequences if uttered as president. “I think he’d get us into World War III.” When it comes to rudeness in 2016 politics, the Republican presidential contest wins in a landslide, a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research has found. The survey shows that 78 percent of Americans, including most Republi- cans, see the GOP race as discourteous. Only about half as many — 41 percent — say the same about the Democratic campaign. Eight in 10 people say remarks about race or gender and sexuality are unacceptable in public places, and that political leaders should be held to a higher standard of behavior than other people. It’s not just politics. Nearly three-quarters say people in general are ruder these days than 20 or 30 years DJRD¿QGLQJVLPLODUWRRQHVHHQLQDQ Associated Press/Ipsos poll taken in 2005. Even so, two-thirds see political campaigns this year as outdoing the public in levels of rudeness. Trump plainly has played a role in setting the tone to extra-coarse, doling out put-downs to a wide selection of critics, political opponents, a reli- gious group, debate moderators and protesters. Former GOP candidate Jeb Bush was “low energy.” Onetime GOP hopeful Marco Rubio was “little Marco.” Ted Cruz, who is Trump’s most prominent rival for the nomination, AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File In this April 14 photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Patchogue, N.Y. is “lyin Ted.” Famously, Trump said Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever” after she pressed him last year on his insults of women. Manners matter to Americans. Florida’s Rubio learned how little they appreciate discourtesy on the campaign trail when he returned Trump’s insults in kind, lost his home state primary in Florida and dropped out of the contest. Rubio said he regretted adopting Trump’s technique. Now, there’s evidence that Trump may have gotten the message as he struggles to add to a following that could leave him short of the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the GOP presidential nomination. He’s hired professional political operatives to steer him in the delegate derby. He was reported to have met with Kelly this week, after months of tweeted insults and his boycotting a Fox debate earlier this year. There are deep cultural roots to Americans’ dislike of rudeness in their leaders. The poll found that in general, the public disapproves of behavior ranging from using cellphones in restaurants to making sexist statements LQ SXEOLF 0RVW SHRSOH ¿QG YXOJDU language and bigoted comments inap- propriate. More than 80 percent say remarks and jokes about race or about gender and sexuality are unacceptable. There is less condemnation for these types of comments made in private, but more than 6 in 10 regard them as improper there as well. Half the public see this year’s campaign for the Republican nomina- tion as mostly rude and disrespectful, and an additional 29 percent consider it somewhat so. Even 8 in 10 Republicans (79 percent) regard their party’s process to determine a nominee for president as ill-mannered. In contrast, only 16 percent say the campaign between the Democratic candidates for president is mostly rude and disrespectful, while 25 percent who consider it somewhat so. Trump likes to dismiss complaints about his manners as “political correctness.” The poll found that only 15 percent believe candidates should not be sensitive to the possibility of upsetting other people. The AP-NORC poll of 1,004 adults was conducted March 17-21 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. 5HVSRQGHQWV ZHUH ¿UVW VHOHFWHG randomly using address-based sampling methods, and later interviewed online or by phone. Mississippi governor signs law allowing armed church members JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A holstered gun sat on top of a Bible on Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s desk Friday when he signed a law allowing guns in churches, which he said would help protect worshippers from potential attackers. The Church Protection Act allows places of worship to designate members to undergo ¿UHDUPV WUDLQLQJ VR WKH\ can provide armed security for their congregations. ,W VSHFL¿HV WKDW WKRVH designated can carry guns into church buildings and gives them legal protections. The law also loosens gun permit requirements by allowing people to carry holstered weapons without a permit, making Mississippi the ninth state with such a law, said NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter. The Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police says that part of the bill dismantles the state’s licensing system and makes it harder to check if someone with a gun is a violent criminal. Other opponents say it endangers people by putting more guns in untrained hands. The law strikes a chord in this Bible Belt state where many hunt and shoot for sport. ,W¶VDGLI¿FXOWGLVFXVVLRQ that can get politicized and YHU\ HPRWLRQDO ÀDWWHQLQJ an issue with more nuance, said Pastor Pat Ward, who leads The Orchard Church in Oxford. People in his congregation see both sides; they are racially diverse, conservative and liberal, some older, some still University of Mississippi students. His church is guarded by a team of experienced law HQIRUFHPHQWRI¿FLDOV The bill was authored by Baptist pastor and state Rep. 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