Community organizer tactic.

No, Presidential prerogative.

I hope the Pope cancels.
Obama has no respect for what the Pope represents.
Obviously Obama is not a Christian.

The pope is not going to cancel. Unlike repubs he respects protocol. Also none of you repubs has the authority to say who is not a Christian. Just make sure your life is acceptable unto God.

See, this is what separates the thinkers from the stinkers. Now, who has seen where Obama has jumped all over the Catholics and Pope for extending mercy and forgiveness to Catholic (Father) child molesters? Well? Case upon case of these spiritual leaders mingling with little children and no one here has a word to say? Hmmm, interesting. Even Pope Francis has said that one in every fifty Priests is a child molester.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2690575/Pope-Francis-admits-two-cent-Roman-Catholic-priests-paedophiles-interview-Italian-newspaper.html

Major excerpt from link:

Asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday whether more cases would emerge, he said: ‘I would love to say there weren’t but I expect there are.
‘There are in almost every institution in this land.’
He added that the Church needed to apologise and explain how ‘utterly devastated’ it was about its history child abuse.
He said: ‘It is becoming clearer and clearer that for many, many years things were not dealt with as they should have been dealt with. We must show justice to survivors of abuse.’
While Pope Francis has carried out sweeping reforms to the Vatican, he has been accused of not doing enough to tackle the child abuse crisis.
End of excerpt from link.

Every country has its' problems of every kind but, somehow, this President is supposed to be the perfect and end all solution to everything. Pope Francis is supposed to be the all end and perfect solution to child molestation but, guess what? He's not...because people are going to do what the hell they're going to do just like they do in the U.S. You know, the one-dimensional mind and way of thinking is really, really amazing to me and it's true that most humans use very, very little of their brain. Maybe, just maybe Obama forgives these people on his list the way the Pope begs for forgiveness of child molesters. Please read the following links if you're not afraid of the TRUTH:

1)http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/04/pope_francis_takes_responsibility_for_evil_of_priests_who_molest_children.html

2) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-asks-forgiveness-priests-who-molested-children-1444416

See, America, all too many people who want to talk politics have simply removed God from the equation COMPLETELY and, therefore, can only see things, speak, (and think) one-dimensionally. Heck, even Jesus went among the sinners and tax collectors and DINED with them but, it was for a purpose. Just some folks on Obama's list sin, the Pope has folks back at the Vatican living in sin as well...so there ya go. If anything, this could be an OPPORTUNITY for the Pope to do some teaching and maybe help these people because God uses people in different ways. Man, I can see that lots of misdirected Republicans have absolutely zero tolerance while God is full of mercy.

Now, let that marinate for a minute. Sooo, because I might decide to go to a gathering where I know sinners will be, that makes me NOT a Christian? Um, well, to NOT forgive people and to JUDGE people will make you NOT a Christian even faster. The Pope's DIRECT REPRESENTATION is supposed to be FORGIVENESS you silly people...just like God's is.

This same type of people want Obama to cancel the dinner with China's President as though that's gonna raise so much hell and tension with them. Really? SO, don't feed their President any steak, shrimp, salad, potatoes, and expensive wine, and that'll teach him a lesson!!! Really? Good Lord!!! America, when you come here and read the responses to the blog entries, the pure tone and nature of the poster's WORDS should tell you a lot about what they value and just how much they use their brain to really think.