Chancellor Sorondo:

"I deny that. It was not that way," Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo told Reuters in a telephone interview while he was traveling in New York. Sorondo, a close aide to Pope Francis, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the event.

He said it was his idea to invite Sanders.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-papal-official-untrue-sanders-invited-himself-vatican-173414032.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

And, no I am not wrong. SORRY!

You have contrasting info, which is wrong. Am I calling you a liar?

the Mental Gymnastics

I hope it doesn't cut into his campaign schedule too much. It's going to be tight, to say the least. I suppose it looks good to be at some Vatican conference, but I'm not sure it's such a big deal. Now, if he was having a private audience with the Pope to discuss matters of import, it would look pretty presidential, for sure.

I don't know. I wouldn't do it that close to a very important primary if I were running. Seems risky, just in terms of lost campaign time. His opponent will have an entire day to get the jump on him on some issue or another on Friday, and Saturday is stiff iffy for campaign activities after two whirlwind overnight flights.

It doesn't even look like there will be an audience photo with the Pope. Those are nice to have on the front page of the papers.

It explains why he asked for the invite. He can always say he met with the Pope even if he does not.

But, yeah, it will be logistical nightmare. Nothing a high speed private jet won't solve. That is, after all, how the 1%ers roll.

NOT.

and you know it. Must really be frustrating. I feel for ya.

He also tried to make it look like he would be meeting with the Pope. Considering what happened with the Kentucky dimwit I would say the odds are against a photo op. The Pope is not likely to want to get involved in a political campaign.

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Move onto the next fake outrage that fills the GD p with raw sewage posts...





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terms of his campaign in New York. But that's no skin off my honker.

but hey, we all love our candidates

for dinner.

With ample room for him to stretch out and sleep.

John McCain was stuck doing an empty press conference at the nearest IHOP.

Could the optics be any better? How can the MSM NOT cover Sanders going to the Vatican?

Obviously there is a bond between the Pope and Sanders as allies in the same big battle against an excess of greed.

But, yes, I do remember Obama's visit.

Where do you get that from???

of course, now he is saying otherwise

So tell me, what do you think of Bill dissing Black Lives Matter & lying (according to politico and huffpo) about his record in the process? From HuffPo:

Here’s what he told protesters at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia:

“They say the welfare reform bill increased poverty. Then why did we have the largest drop in African American poverty in history when I was president? The largest in history. What happened was, all these Republicans got into — the Supreme Court elected President Bush 5 to 4, then all these Republicans took over state legislatures. We left ‘em with enough money to take care of all the poor people who couldn’t go to work on welfare. We left ‘em with the money they had before the welfare rolls went down 60 percent. The Republicans took it away, and [these protesters are] blaming me.”
This is not true. Poverty dropped during the Clinton years not because of welfare reform, but because the entire American economy was being juiced by a massive stock market bubble. No credible economist even disputes this. The Clinton bubble was fueled by the aggressive financial deregulatory policies of Clinton and his Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan. When the stock market bubble burst, millions of people who previously would have received welfare fell into poverty.

Welfare reform was an intentional effort to curb financial assistance to poor people, on the grounds that many were simply too lazy to get a job. Clinton turned over a federal program to states, who were effectively allowed to slash welfare funding and impose new work requirements on people who received assistance. Even Republican co-architects of welfare reform concede that the program ended up hurting the poor.

of an asset to Hillary's campaign. He tends to blurt when he should think. It's not my campaign, though, and I imagine it's hard to tell Bill Clinton, "Watch what you say, and don't speak nonsense, please."

Will he do much harm to the campaign? Probably not. But, he's not doing much good for it, either.

It's one of my most charming qualities.

Other than having to make thousands of people reschedule that rally.

The Clinton campaign sure does play hardball.

of importance segment instead of the "he invited himself" opener? Not sure who is scripting this stuff for camp Hillary, but I think a bit more thought needs to be put into the possible blowback before giving the green light to stuff like that.

They must be very impressed.

He is invited to the conference and it connects him worldwide with other leaders around the world who are interested in social and economic justice

Really, I mean it.

He'd be a fool to pass on it. It will definitely play on the news cycle and should more than make up for missing a few rallies. NY and NYC in particular are attuned to world events and this is teed up nicely for him.