It has now been confirmed that President Obama will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI on July 10th. In preparation for the momentous visit, the crack White House protocol office has sent the President a list of gifts to choose from.
After a series of embarrassing gaffes surrounding wildly inappropriate and narcissistic gifts given to heads of State, the President is determined to get this one right. These are the gifts that Obama has settled on.
Digital Photo frame with pictures from the Obamas’ date night in NYC
A Collection Of Great American Religious Films
including
DaVinci Code – Angels & Demons – Dogma
(In North American Format)
including
DaVinci Code – Angels & Demons – Dogma
(In North American Format)
Autographed copies of a couple of riveting Catholic Bestsellers!
Kerry Kennedy’s Being Catholic Now and John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope
Kerry Kennedy’s Being Catholic Now and John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope
Post Card From Recent Trip To The Pope’s Fatherland
Since the Holy Father is a known music lover!
Sinead O’Connors Greatest hits.
Reliquary with Obama’s own hair & fingernails in it!
(Catholics are in to this kind of stuff!)
(Catholics are in to this kind of stuff!)
Pretty crystal necklace with beads and a cross for the Pope’s wife
June 25, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Patrick,
Thanks for the laugh. This was very funny.
For Anonymous (both):
While this post might also touch on President Obama, Patrick clearly makes the "crack White House protocol office" the butt of the joke.
July 5, 2009 at 4:41 pm
For Anonymous: in case you had not noticed, people in Britain have not forgotten about the Obamas' multiple protocol failures towards Gordon Brown (richly though he might deserve it) and the Queen. This post, to anyone who observed the astonishing amateurism of the Chicago team, is really very funny.