How things have changed. Who would have imagined, back in 2008, that the pin-up of liberals around the world would need the Pope's support? No one. Just as no one would have said, in those dark days for the Catholic Church, that the leader of the much-reviled Vatican could ever add lustre to the leader of the free world.
It is a measure of Obama's failure and Francis's success that this week's visit to the Vatican by the US President has been seized by the White House as proof of the Pope's support for Obama. The Vatican, meanwhile, has downplayed the event, as if it does not want to be tarnished by association with the architect of Obamacare and a faltering foreign policy.
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