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Csainvestor

(388 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 07:42 PM Apr 2016

Bernie will probably meet the pope, but probably not in private.

Or he might actually meet in private.

Either way, the misinformation on this has been unlike anything i have ever seen before.

He wasn't invited, he was invited, he won't speak, he will speak, he invited himself and he will be a party crasher, he won't meet the pope in a public setting, he will meet the pope in a public setting etc etc.

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MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
10. Does it smell any better than froth?
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:16 PM
Apr 2016

I'm not talking about the kind that Starbucks has atop all those coffee drinks.

There's some serious spinning and frothing and flopping going around and around and around in little baby circles in these parts.

Nanjeanne

(4,974 posts)
2. Yes all party crashes get invitations and have the head host put out a statement
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 07:52 PM
Apr 2016

That says they personally invited you, and lists those reasons.

And here I thought a party crasher was someone who crashed a party.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
4. *cough*
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 07:52 PM
Apr 2016
Bernie will probably meet the pope, but probably not in private.

Or he might actually meet in private.

Either way, the misinformation on this has been unlike anything i have ever seen before.

He wasn't invited, he won't speak, he invited himself and he will be a party crasher, he won't meet the pope in a public setting etc etc.


http://www.attn.com/stories/7218/pope-francis-invites-bernie-sanders-to-vatican

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Bernie-Sanders-accepts-invitation-to-Vatican-City-on-April-15-450656

Csainvestor

(388 posts)
6. he never said it was a private meeting however.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:02 PM
Apr 2016

people are parsing every single word.

I am sure many people will meet the pope in a public setting at the conference.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
9. Let's be clear: the disinform...fuck it, the LIES were ALL told by one side.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:14 PM
Apr 2016

They continue to do so, presumably because they're liars.

thesquanderer

(11,990 posts)
11. I don't know why anyone is bothering with all this nonsense.
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:25 PM
Apr 2016

Just let it happen. A week from tomorrow, it will be over, and we'll all know what happened. He'll speak, or he won't, he'll meet the pope, or he won't. Why is it important to guess now when we'll know in a week? What's the point?

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
12. Because the Clinton campaign, its surrogates,
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:35 PM
Apr 2016

and its supporters are doing as they are told. They must discredit and disqualify Sanders, so they win NY. Period. It is rather simple really.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
13. Maybe he's going to convert! Or, maybe he's going to convert the pope!
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 08:45 PM
Apr 2016

Maybe they're both going to sing the Internationale in chorus while juggling!

OTOH. Maybe two men who are both concerned about climate change and the income inequality might meet and shake hands.

Apply Occam's Razor here..

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
14. Only if Bernie's planning on going to Greece
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 11:49 PM
Apr 2016

for his meeting with the Pontiff since that's where he'll be.

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