Sanders accidentally visits GOP lunch

[oberliner]

It's been a while since Bernie Sanders has attended the weekly Senate Democratic lunch in the Capitol.

So long, in fact, he forgot where to go Tuesday and headed -- with his large Secret Service detail in tow -- into the Republican lunch instead.

He quickly realized his mistake and turned around. When a reporter noted, "wrong room," Sanders replied, "Thank you" as he made his way to the Democratic gathering.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/politics/bernie-sanders-senate-lunch-wrong-room/index.html

[Armstead]

1. This deserves a hide....

If Bernie can't be defended anymore, he should not be criticized.

[auntpurl]

2. I thought it was a cute story?

I didn't take it as a criticism. But I understand people are still a bit tender from the horrible primaries.

Not the OP, obviously, and don't know his/her intentions in posting.

[TwilightZone]

14. If that was the "kiss the ring" and "placing the Crown on Clinton's head" thread...

I would suggest that it probably doesn't fit in the current state of DU and "tame analysis" is probably a bit of a misnomer.

The admins have been closing some pre-new-rules threads that were bumped after a couple of days that don't fit the new parameters. I seem to recall that Skinner noted that they were doing so in an ATA thread or one of the announcements threads.

[Armstead]

16. Doesn't matter

It would probably have gotten locked without those phrases.

I'm all for the civility part of the current rules....But I don't think all discussion and debate of the differences should be verboten.

[auntpurl]

15. If your post hadn't been kicked, it wouldn't have been locked.

It was pre-new rules so was not against TOS at that time, but it is now (just a few phrases, not the whole thing obviously).

I didn't think this OP portrayed him as doddering. God knows I'm 30 years younger and I still can't remember why I walked into a room half the time!

[Armstead]

17. I've been absent minded since age 10

But that aside...

As I said elsewhere, I'm all for the civility part of the new rules...but not stifling differences of opinion.

No matter. I'm just going to make myself scarcer and spent much less time on DU and more time on real world pursuits, like my job, again.

[DLCWIdem]

38. I was in D.C. 20 years ago for an internship

And I walked into the wrong room. I was completely mortified and scared having never been out of the small town I grew up in. So while this OP could have been meant for the wrong reasons. I Hope it will bring out peoples humanity instead

[okasha]

23. It happens to people all the time.

I was once in the ladies' in a favorite restaurant when a thirty-something male FBI agent walked in, saw me, said "Sorry" and beat a hasty 180 out.

If there's any criticism of Sanders in this story, it has nothing to do with his age.

[democrattotheend]

39. I thought so too

I didn't read the whole article, but from the excerpt posted here at DU I wasn't offended by it. I thought it was funny.

Plus, who says we can't defend Bernie? I thought we just couldn't criticize Hillary in a way that isn't constructive?

[tonyt53]

4. But this was actually a news story. I do believe it was unintentional on his part though

It did happen though.

[Armstead]

7. This

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2211136

[still_one]

24. What happened to you might very well have been unfair. We are under new rules now. The way the

jury systems is setup, an Alert is based on a limited set of selections. The person who does the alert selects the item they believe is in violation. The juror is then asked if they believe the alerted comment matches the violation, which is explicitly stated. It either is or it isn't. Since the juror is ruling on a specific rule, it reduces the chance for personal bias. It either satisfies that specific rule or it doesn't.

The weakness is that there might be a category that should be a rule, that isn't. I would suspect that if a case can be made where more rules should added, the administrators would be receptive

My only point is, it is better to move forward under the new rules

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. what exactly is this criticizing? he's been busy and he got his days mixed up

i am no bernie fan, but i didn't think this showed him in a poor light

what i will say is this is a non-story and i am not sure why exactly some bothered to report on this

[Armstead]

9. I didn't alert or report on it

But I don't blame anyone who did.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. you didn't answer my question? in order to hide something it has to bash democrats

how is this bernie bashing?

[Armstead]

11. It doesn't matter...

None of it does

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. ok. i thought perhaps you read something in it that i didn't, but i guess we are going with nihilism

[Armstead]

13. Discouragement is not nihilism

[Maru Kitteh]

27. Do you miss arguing so very much

That you are now arguing, about arguing? Have you no hobbies my good man?

[Chasstev365]

28. Rude and condescending

[Maru Kitteh]

37. lighthearted

If I intended rude or condescending, you would know.

[oberliner]

19. Huh?

It's just a cute little funny story. Nothing negative about Bernie included.

[Jim Lane]

20. I was on the jury and considered that a close question.

My main reaction to the post is that it's monumentally silly. How about "Sanders goes to Senate cafeteria and means to order chicken salad sandwich but the server mishears him and gives him a chicken leg instead"? or maybe even "Sanders reaches for his cell phone in his left pocket forgetting that he'd put it back in his right pocket"? The world wants to know!

Of course, under old rules or new, "monumentally silly" isn't a basis for a hide. I decided that it wasn't Sanders-bashing. Part of the reason it isn't is precisely that it's so monumentally silly. It would not serve to lower any reader's opinion of Sanders unless the reader were devoid of common sense.

[oberliner]

21. CNN published it as a story on their website

It's just one of those cute little silly things that makes one smile.

[Armstead]

22. I'd have paid it no mind a few days ago.

But I just think sauce for the goose....etc.

[Ken Burch]

45. Don't think there was any malice in this.

Bernie probably laughed about it later.

[arcane1]

3. It's almost as if he's been quite busy since around May of last year.

[bravenak]

25. He would have lost his appetite had he stayed in the room with Turtle face

[rbrnmw]

33. right? girl I would lose my appetite for a week looking at those fools

[bravenak]

34. Oh yeah! Even paul ryan's nervous energy upsets my stomach

He looks like a little sneaky animal, maybe a meercat or something.

[DemonGoddess]

42. hmmmm

perhaps I should look at the turtleface's portrait to suppress my appetite? Would certainly help in dieting!

[Hekate]

26. Glad to hear he's back at work in the Senate. We need him to caucus with the Dems again.

[NurseJackie]

48. I agree!

If he remains a Democrat, then there should be no question about which side he'll caucus with. But whether he does remains to be seen.

[riversedge]

29. oops. No problem. Happens to a lot us. Glad to see him back.

[Vinca]

30. Why are you posting about Bernie? Is he running in the general election?

We can't defend him, so kindly stick to the candidates running.

[oberliner]

35. It's a funny little story about a well-beloved Democrat

There is nothing that needs defending.

[Vinca]

46. Oh, come on. Do you think we all just fell off the turnip truck?

I won't elaborate because that's no longer allowed and, which is why, you should keep your general election posts to Hillary and Trump.

[oberliner]

47. You are reading things that aren't there

I'm sure Bernie had a laugh about it.

[tallahasseedem]

31. LOL!

Whoops! Definitely the wrong room Bern. I could only imagine all of their faces!

[grossproffit]

32. Been there, done that. Glad I'm not the only one. Mine was going into the men's bathroom. Oops.

[KK9]

36. Yeah...

I've not been a Sanders supporter, but I'd like to cut him some slack! I'm exactly 20 years younger than he is and have not been running my ass off campaiging all over the country, but, yes, I have also walked into the men's bathroom recently, and it wasn't a political statement, just a mistake .

[democrattotheend]

40. I don't see how it could have been a political statement

Bernie has been called a lot of things, but a Republican wannabe is not one of them!

[sturnz0r]

44. I couldn't see the video, but

He should have ostricized the Republican for their pro-gun votes while he was there.. maybe set the tone for his speech tomorrow

[AntiBank]

52. there have been a few on here who ridiculously kept up the Bernie as a tight winger meme

haven't seen them lately, hopefully they were booted

[SMC22307]

41. The real story is that CNN considers this newsworthy.

Dumbed-down media.

[betsuni]

43. A couple of times I've almost gotten into the wrong car with the wrong husband in it.

Before he bought his own car, my husband occasionally borrowed one of his company's cars on weekends. Generic, white, mid-sized cars that all look alike to me. One morning we're off on a road trip and decide to stop at the grocery store around the corner. I run in to get snacks and beverages and run out, open the door of the generic, white, mid-sized car and start to get in, only to see a totally different husband. He looked terrified, yelled "NO NO NO, WRONG CAR!" Like I wouldn't have noticed if he didn't point it out to me. My husband said he saw me approaching the wrong car but was powerless to stop what was happening.

The other time it was twilight and I was waiting outside the apartment for my husband to pick me up. So when a generic, white, mid-sized car pulled up in front of me, I went for the door. Again, wrong husband inside. Luckily it wasn't a stranger this time, just one of the neighbors who had pulled up in order to back into his parking space. After that I more careful about launching myself at cars without checking who is driving.

[oberliner]

50. I've had similar situations

Sat next to the wrong person at a movie theatre, for instance. Still embarrassed about that one.

[treestar]

54. LOL

Great stories!

[John Poet]

49. "Sorry, I thought this was the shit-house"

he should have said.

[MineralMan]

51. So? He went to the wrong room.

Who cares? It's meaningless, but mean, nonetheless. We could stop doing that any time now, I think. Bernie Sanders is a progressive U. S. Senator. Let's show some respect, please.

[immoderate]

53. Kind of a "dog does not bite man" type of story, eh?

--imm