State Visits

It may not occur to most people, but whoever is scheduling state visits in our White House is inept.  We have Xi Jinping sitting out in Seattle while almost any leader in this government is sitting on the White House lawn with the Pope.  The Pope is great man, but the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State chose to see the Pope and be seen with him, rather than the leader of the second largest economy in the world.  This is a little hard to understand, and more than a little disrespectful.  One of them could have met with Xi yesterday and the other could have picked up the Pope at Andrews Air Force Base.  They would both have been back in time to sit and listen to the Pope speak some other time in the next two days.