"So, Jose, how're things goin' on my canonization ??"
Posted on 03/27/2014 5:52:23 AM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A visibly energized President Barack Obama held a nearly hourlong audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, expressing his great admiration for the pontiff and inviting him to visit the White House.
Although Obama and the church remain deeply split over abortion and contraception, Obama considers the pontiff a kindred spirit on issues of economic inequality, and their private meeting in the Papal Library ran longer than scheduled. After they emerged to cameras, Francis presented Obama with a copy of his papal mission statement decrying a global economic system that excludes the poor. Obama said he will keep it in the Oval Office.
The president and pope both appeared tense at the start of the audience, when they initially greeted one another, but then were all smiles by the end of the meeting and seemed to have found a rapport, though they spoke through interpreters.
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Peter meets SATAN
Are we going to have to endure days of photo ops of mac daddy posing with the Pope?
Mac daddy is a giant phony.
Why did he bring the Pope carrot seeds? Does the pope not have any carrots? This guy gives the weirdest gifts. It could have been worse - it could have been an audio tape of his greatest speeches.
Obama is so full of himself.
They misplaced the begin quote. Obama told the pope tgat he, the pope, is a great ad,irer of Obama.
He is a great admirer of the Pope’s socialistic outlook, and wouldn’t be there at all if he wasn’t using the Pope as a publicity front.
This Pope seems more stupid by the day.
"So, Jose, how're things goin' on my canonization ??"
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