9/26/15 -Pope Francis turns DOWN Clinton Foundation invitation

[azurnoir]

for those wondering why Hillary's folks are scrambling to denigrate Bernie's visit to the vatican conference

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/255058-elton-john-pope-francis-turned-down-clinton-foundation-invites

can we say baaaad optics?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Worst than I thought

[azurnoir]

3. I know Bloomberg's paper tried to help or something but that didn't go well either

[ViseGrip]

8. what type of help?

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

15. Smearing Sanders that he invited himself to the Vatican...

As if it is a Holiday Inn Express, where you just call up the Pope and request a room.

[Betty Karlson]

21. Sour grapes of jealousy - for all to see. eom

[reformist2]

24. "The Clinton Foundation is the political version of Scientology" - stolen from the Hill discussion.

Best quote ever!

[jfern]

2. The pope goes under the limo

[ViseGrip]

7. Lots of names in that story and why they all declined, they'll need a 16wheeler.

[rachacha]

4. I guess the pope felt he was unqualified?

[Aerows]

9. GT - Bernie received an invitation

Hillary did not.

I guess Pope Francis is under the bus now.

The Clinton campaign had every opportunity to apply for the event, and didn't. Bernie did, and was issued an invitation.

Sloppy campaigning and griping after the fact is incompetent. Hillary needs to have her campaign managers get on top of these things.

Do you see now why people are saying her campaign is in disarray and she is her own worst enemy?

[roguevalley]

11. he didn't apply. He was asked and his invitation was sent at the end of March.

Vatican cleared that up.

[Aerows]

13. It galls me that the Clinton campaign is trying to make

political hay over this.

If you don't want to be perpetually pissed off, pick a better candidate.

I'm without outrage with Bernie as the nominee. I prefer to not be outraged.

Maybe I'm "naive" and "uninformed" in my support of him, but the bottom line is that I support Bernie Sanders.

[Aerows]

14. Damn, I messed up in the post

I assumed I was replying to GT, and I was wrong.

I apologize for it.

[roguevalley]

10. Obama turned them down. :D This was when the shit began to leak out of the

bag. It has been a news item for a while now

[ThePhilosopher04]

5. The Pope knows who the real progressive leader for social justice is ...

and he knows who the scoundrels are.

[ViseGrip]

6. The Clintons do worship money, and that is what the Pope talks about.

And the numbers by Monday will show the tumbling the last couple of days, internally.

Bernie needs those small dollar donations now....time to kick it into high gear.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. The Pope talks about worshiping graven images

[hobbit709]

32. Hillary worships graven images, especially those graven Benjamins.

[senz]

12. K&R. Very interesting.

[Lodestar]

16. Great find! And I liked this line from the article best....

The foundation also wanted either Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen or French economist Thomas Piketty to deliver a presentation on income inequality, but both declined.

[silvershadow]

17. Bump for exposure

[RiverLover]

25. X 2. Pope Francis cares deeply about trying to slow down Climate Change & trying to combat

Global wealth inequality & the suffering of many at the hands of a few.

And the Clinton Foundation?

The Clinton Foundation: Hillary Beholden To Banks, Corporations, And Foreign Governments
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/the-clinton-foundation-hillary-beholden-to-banks-corporations-and-foreign-governments.html

Oil Companies Donated To Clinton Foundation While Lobbying State Department
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/oil-companies-donated-clinton-foundation-while-lobbying-state-department-2348832

[myrna minx]

18. This bizarre freak out is starting to make sense.

I couldn't understand why people were OBSESSING about this, but contrast his invitation with this, and yes, in our dumb political season, unfortunately this makes sense now. Ugh.

I'm glad I missed out on the Clinton campaign freak out over this.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Well now it's starting to make sense.

Jealously turned to rage, all because Bernie was invited to a conference.

No wonder they're so desperate to lie and smear not just Bernie but everyone involved - some have even started red baiting in order to dismiss this as a gathering of socialists.

[Joob]

20. Why didn't she just Invite Herself, apparently people can do that. nt

[Fumesucker]

22. Hillary has bills to pay and must fundraise from the glitterati, going top drawer is expensive

Hillary will be at a star studded gala hosted by George Clooney hoovering up bundles of campaign cash while Bernie is at the Vatican discussing income inequality.

The optics of it all are rather unfortunate.

[azurnoir]

23. who invited themselves?

[noiretextatique]

28. Why are you repeating a lie?

Seriously. It's one thing to be mistaken, but this has now been proven to be false.

[Joob]

33. Yeah, guess my sarcasm failed.

[noiretextatique]

34. Ok...sorry

My apologies

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. Hillary will probably show up at the Vatican - another SNL skit LOL?

[noiretextatique]

29. She will get the same reception

As she got at Black Girls Rock. They were not amused.

[frylock]

39. Well she did hunt down the Chinese that one time.

Maybe she can crash Frank's meeting the same way.

[BernieforPres2016]

30. Here's a howler from the article

"The foundation also wanted either Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen or French economist Thomas Piketty to deliver a presentation on income inequality, but both declined."

Maybe the Clintons could get one of them to make that speech this summer in the Hamptons.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

31. WAR

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

[amborin]

35. The Pope is principled! What a slap in the face!

[jmg257]

36. Is it any surprise? Here's Jeffery Sachs (involved with Bernie invite) on it...

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[azmom]

37. Ouch!!!

That will leave a burn.

[MisterP]

38. Argentineans are good at identifying fake populists driven by bloodlust, ideology,

need for ultimate power, and dynastic succession

[AzDar]

40. K & R

[azurnoir]

41. Kicking because :)