Frank discussion, yeah right
The White House is saying that pro-abortion President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church, will have a "frank' talk on abortion when they meet on Friday. Obama is currently in Italy for the Group of Eight summit and the two will meet after the conference concludes.
"I think there will be a frank discussion [about abortion]," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One, according to an AP report.
On subject like abortion where Obama is out of step with the pro-life teachings of the Catholic faith, Gibbs said "even if we don't see eye to eye on everything, there are steps that can be taken on a number of issues that will show progress, whether it's on something like unintended pregnancy or adoption." (LifeNews via American Papist)
Seems to me like a phony story. Maybe the Vatican does list topics that are going to be discussed ahead of time, but for a 15 minute meeting the list can't be very long and the talk not very substantial. A frank discussion on abortion would certainly take more than 15 minutes. Heck the President can ramble on about women rights and it being a moral issue as he normally does and pretty much 15 minutes is gone. Plus how frank of a discussion can you have with a guy who thought infanticide was acceptable in some cases and then lied about what he voted on.
I really wish the Holy Father was a bit of a practical joker. For example when meeting the President he could raise his hands and start repeating "The Power of Christ compels you" with some splashed of Holy Water to accent this. That would be classic.
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I only hope that the president's wife has the courtesy to dress properly when meeting the Holy Father.
Now that would be a photo-op to remember!
You mean it's going to take the Holy Father 15 minutes to say 'You're wrong, you're a murderer, you're going to burn unless you repent your ways'?
*eyes bug out* Wow, spam-a-thon....
My husband couldn't understand why I was giggling so hard... I associate the notion of having a "frank talk" as being what you do with your kids, or someone else you're instructing.
So...mental image of a guy more qualified to be in Hollywood than most anything else... explaining the abortion "issue" to a scholar in his 80s, who has written a stack of books taller than I am, on topics fairly well related to this topic....
The only frank discussion possible within the allotted time would be one in which the Holy Father speaks and our president says "Yes, Holy Father." OR, one in which Obama is permitted to babble for 14.5 minutes while Pope Benedict prays silently for his deliverance from evil and, Yes!, frees him from the culture of Death in the last thirty seconds. Actually, I'm liking the 2nd scenario...
Jeff, are you suffering from an attack of the Spambots? Yikes!
I know it has become a requirement that Presidents meet with the Pope. I don't know when this started.
I imagine these meetings are like the time I was told that I simply HAD to stop by my great-aunt Ida's when I was "down there;" the most uncomfortable half hour of my life. (I had never met her, she could barely hear, and she had NO idea how I was related to her.)
Why do they even do it? Surely all that needed to be said has been by their repsective foreign representatives?
Really AuntieD (first post)? That's your only hope for this discussion? Are all traditionalists this shallow? If one's costume is the main focus of your concerns, then what is all this arguing about?
I heard the prez. (Quis Ut Deus to prescott and the rest of the geniuses that voted for the One Big A$$ Mistake America!) called in sick.
He sprained his neck ogling a 16-year-old girl with Sarkozy displaying how a Frenchman does it.