Obama looking for kindred spirit in Pope Francis

[dipsydoodle]

ROME (AP) -- They speak the same economic language, focused on inequality and the plight of the underprivileged. One's a spiritual leader; the other a political one. One's popularity is stratospheric. The other, well, not so much.

When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis on Thursday at the Vatican, the six-year president would not be blamed for seeking some reflected glory from a pope who, one year into his pontificate, is viewed as an agent of change in the Roman Catholic Church.

Obama is the ninth president to make an official visit to the Vatican. His audience marks a change of pace for the president, who has devoted the past three days of a weeklong, four-country trip to securing European unity against Russia's aggressive posture toward Ukraine.

The pope whom Obama will sit with this time is a different pontiff than the last one to host him. Obama visited Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, a cordial meeting that nevertheless drew attention to the differences between the church and Obama on abortion.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-27-05-05-58

[reformist2]

1. Maybe the Pope can remind Obama how the War in Iraq wasn't justified.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Actually the President could give the Pope lessons in

getting your followers to accept the doctrine of your enemies .

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Probably lobbying Francis to not reform the Vatican Bank

"Jamie and Lloyd say it's bad for business..."

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Not a word about Uganda, and our Sec of State fawned instead of standing for those under attack

Pitiful.

[woo me with science]

5. Billionaires' wealth doubled since 2009. Obama seeks TPP.

Yeah, Obama's focused on inequality, all right.

Obama's TPP will mean a pay cut for 90 percent of American workers
(those who still have jobs)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4141426

[840high]

6. ...^ that