We can expect Obama's fast-acting spin doctors, people John Adams would derisively call "puffers," to kick it into high gear in order to dress-up the president's highly anticipated meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. I can only hope that the Vatican's communication department is sufficiently savvy and prepared to beat the Obama team to the punch. I'm not optimistic though, on that question. A master of co-opting language and situations to his advantage, the president (not to mention his bumptious mouthpiece Robert Gibbs who kissed the pope's ring at the audience today) is sure to emphasize the ample "common ground" that he shares with the pope on a wide range of issues, all the while giving scant notice to no doubt the pope's primary concern: the president's militant support for abortion.
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