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Csainvestor

(388 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 12:24 PM Apr 2016

Bernie was invited, he could also be uninvited. Did they not know he was running for president?

Are they pretending they did not know he was running for president? There was no need to invite Bernie was there? They could have easily rejected Bernie.

Europeans know Bernie very well, and they know he is running for the presidency. He gets much better press in Europe than he does here.

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demwing

(16,916 posts)
7. If all the wealth and adoration of the church can't buy the Pope
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 12:53 PM
Apr 2016

Bill and Hill don't stand a snowballs chance in hell

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
4. Correction: Bernie begged for an invite and the Vatican is not impressed
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 12:45 PM
Apr 2016
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-08/sanders-accused-of-discourtesy-in-seeking-vatican-invitation

Sanders Accused of ‘Discourtesy’ in Seeking Vatican Invitation

"A senior Vatican official accused Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of showing a “monumental discourtesy” in his lobbying for an invitation to a church-sponsored conference on economic and environmental issues for political purposes.
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The head of the academy said Friday that Sanders sought the invitation and that put an inappropriate political cast on the gathering.
“Sanders made the first move, for the obvious reasons,” Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the conference Sanders will attend, said in a telephone interview. “I think in a sense he may be going for the Catholic vote but this is not the Catholic vote and he should remember that and act accordingly -- not that he will.”

Csainvestor

(388 posts)
8. uhh- they didn't have to invite him at all.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 12:54 PM
Apr 2016

If they were so insulted, they could have rejected him.

They had zero incentive, nor did they owe Bernie anything. So why invite him then?

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
6. He soliticed an invitation, but made out like he was asked to grace the Vatican with his presence
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 12:53 PM
Apr 2016

It's pretty easy to understand what happened here.

Beacool

(30,250 posts)
13. Same here.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 04:02 PM
Apr 2016

Why do people assume that everybody knows what they're talking about when they post cryptic messages?

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
14. What is it that that they "know" about Hillary to not invite her?
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 04:06 PM
Apr 2016

After all she is well known as a speaker...on Wall street. And, very knowledgeable on fracking. And, it is a conference on Economic Inequality and climate change. She must be broken-hearted over her non-invitation.

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