The "Ingraham Angle" with Laura Ingraham on "The O'Reilly Factor" on July 9th focused on President Obama's upcoming meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. O'Reilly remarked that he didn't feel the meeting would be confrontational, despite President Obama's decidedly secular bent, as outlined by O'Reilly in his "Talking Points Memo". In that piece, O'Reilly noted how the Obama administration seems to go out of its way to obviate religious references, going to the point of cancelling an Air Force fly over at a religious event that had taken place for the previous forty some years - and how Obama covered an iconic holy symbol at Georgetown University when he went to speak there. Ingraham noted that religion, like other aspects of the Obama administration, is something to be managed to complement Obama's public image and that he can't seem to pick a church, despite all his avowals of deep Christian faith during the campaign to garner votes. O'Reilly noted that the Pope and Obama both seem to buy into global warming which he also does, while Ingraham said that she does not. O'Reilly stated that President Reagan didn't have a church, but Ingraham rebutted that Reagan didn't have a church before he came to the White House while Obama made a big deal about his faith and connections to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church until Wright became too politically radioactive for Obama's political fortunes.
Both Ingraham and O'Reilly agreed they'd like to be privy to the conversation between Pope Benedict and Obama.
hope the meeting between obama and the pope will come into a sheer success and both will be about the peace of the world.
Posted by: twilight news | July 10, 2009 at 01:57 AM