[okie01]

This strikes me as an unprecedented event. To my recollection no President -- for that matter, no public official -- has ever seen fit to drape religious symbols when appearing in a religious environment.

Has our crack White House Press Corps undertaken to ask the President why this was done? If so, what was the answer?

Obviously, it wasn't done casually. It was done with willful aforethought...for a reason. What was it?

Is our Chosen One "uncomfortable" within a Christian environment?(one can't call the atmosphere inside Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ Christian). Could it be that his Muslim sensibilities are offended by the image of the cross?

The affair is certainly meaningful. But in what way...??? The answer would be revealing.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There is a photo of Laura Bush speaking in the same lecture hall (Gaston Hall) at Georgetown University in which the IHS and Cross are not covered up. The symbols are visible above and behind her but they don't jump right out in the photograph. They could have picked another location for Obama's speech.

As it was, from one camera angle, Obama was photographed with the VERY religious Catholic allegorical mural painting "Faith" in the background behind his head with the Bible opened displaying the Greek letters "Alpha" and "Omega" which represent Christ from sacred scripture.