Bush-Ratzinger connection more than just an intelligent guess

It should be pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention that there is a very friendly link between the new pope and the White House. And it turns out that God's Rottweiler hasn't always been so fussy about the company he keeps. Newsday has revealed that Neil "those women came into my room, what was I supposed to do?" Bush and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, served together on the board of The Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue, a Swiss organization founded in 1999. All of the board members but two--Bush and his business partner, Jamal Daniel--were well known religious figures.

Daniel's family is known for its holdings both here and in Switzerland. Bush, you will recall, was banned from banking because of his role in dismantling Silverado Banking, Savings, and Loan, at a taxpayer cost of $1.3 billion.