Bernie Sanders MEETS PRIVATELY With Pope Francis

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders meets supporters outside the Vatican. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)
ROME — U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says he met privately with Pope Francis during his overnight trip here, his spokesman said.

The meeting took place at the papal residence early Saturday, according Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs.

A Vatican source said the meeting was not a chance encounter and had been planned.

The Sanders campaign had been vague about the senator's itinerary here following his address Friday to a Vatican conference. Francis left Rome later Saturday for Greece, where he is visiting migrants stuck on the island of Lesbos. The reticence about a Sanders meeting may be an attempt to avoid the perception that Francis is endorsing Sanders or otherwise involving himself in American politics.

Sanders was invited to address a Vatican seminar on income inequality and economic justice, and took an unusual break from the Democratic primary campaign trail to attend. He had said in a Washington Post interview last week that he admired Francis and hoped to meet him, but that nothing was set.

Sanders quotes Francis frequently in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and told reporters afterward that the pope has had enormous influence in airing issues of wealth disparity and climate change.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/16/italian-media-sanders-met-privately-with-pope-francis/

[MFM008]

1. no pictures?????

If HRC said this every Sanders person in here would call her a liar.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Yeah that's the private part.

Bernie didn't use the pope as a photo op, I guess he's not as evil as we were led to believe.

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6. Unlike Queen Hillary, she would have hired Steven Spielberg to film her Papal encounter

in 70mm.

[beam me up scottie]

7. She couldn't even buy an audience with him, he snubbed her!

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9. Yes, the Pope's demand to Hillary was 'No Transcripts, No Meeting'....so she opted for no meeting

[Behind the Aegis]

8. By that assertive logic, are you implying Sanders a liar?

Or are you just using this event to say something negative about Sanders' supporters based on a hypothetical?

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14. some would call it jealous anger

get a whiff of it

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. She does have quite the baggage in that area,

So expecting her to revert to her baseline is normal, not . . . (Wait a sec. What is her current line of attack against Bernie? Oh, yes) sexist.

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2. Well, well...Looks like the Pope's meeting with Bernie was indeed planned......

I'm sure the Pope deep down, also Feels The BERN but can't publicly declare such sentiments.....

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[CharlotteVale]

5. Crow on Camp Weathervane menu this morning.

[tomm2thumbs]

13. the one they caught to train it to land on her podium in Jersey

it was not having it

[jfern]

10. There are no pictures of the meeting, but here's Bernie leaving the pope's residence

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12. carrying their own bags, unlike someone else I know

no slackers!

[Zen Democrat]

15. Heads exploding all over Hillville. Good Morning, People!!!!!

[Jefferson23]

16. K&R Bernie's message is UNIVERSAL!!!!!!!!!!

[JudyM]

17. Glad his campaign didn't engage in a "yes he is!" reaction to all the naysayers before the visist.

Just let them get their shorts all twisted up declaring Bernie lied and so forth, screaming all over the Internet. Then >poof< like that, they are all shown up as being smeary idiots.

Well-played, Bernie camp!