Obama will pick up Pope Francis at the airport [View all]

This made me laugh!

http://theweek.com/speedreads/578448/obama-pick-pope-francis-airport

Obama will pick up Pope Francis at the airport
10:42 a.m. ET


It's not President Obama's M.O. to pick people up at the airport, but for the pope he'll make an exception.

When Pope Francis touches down at a military base outside of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, the president will greet him personally. It's a welcome he "has extended to virtually no other foreign visitor," The New York Times reports.

But while Obama and the pope already have a rapport, there's a bipartisan squeamishness about what Francis might say while he's in town.

"I'm sure the pope will make everyone very uncomfortable," one Catholic Democratic representative, Joseph Crowley, told the Times. "There will be some things that Democrats may not like to hear, and there will certainly be some things, I think, the Republicans will not like to hear." Jeva Lange