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In reply to the discussion: I dont understand why liberals started a love affair with the Pope, and now I don't understand [View all]underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)years in all types of travel, schedule, agenda and meeting scenarios. I didn't have to be there, that's how these things work.
He was on a tight, minute by minute schedule that day that included making a major speech at 10 am, having lunch with homeless people and then getting on a jet at 4 pm. 15 minutes is the standard time for a line up meet and greet. She said herself that he said the one thing to her. That's hardly a meeting, it's a line grab.
If it had been ANYTHING else, it would have been PR'd to the high heavens by the Kimmy morons. The fact that they kept it under wraps this long can only mean it was nearly a non-event, but a carefully worded press release sends everyone on DU into a tailspin.
The reason there aren't any pictures is because that's all it was, it doesn't even seem to have been a photo op, but I can do a search to check and see if anyone else in DC has a photo with the pope that day.