On a tour of Massachusetts, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coastal area for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the shoreline of Cape Cod in his Pope mobile when suddenly he noticed a frantic commotion just off shore.

There was President George W. Bush 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, John Kerry, quickly fired a harpoon into the shark's side while John Edwards reached out and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious President Bush 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, John Kerry asked John Edwards "Who was that?"
"It was the Pope," John Edwards replied. "He is in direct contact with God and has all of God's wisdom."
"Well," John Kerry said, "he may have access to God's wisdom, but he doesn't know squat about shark fishing.

How's the bait holding up?"