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In reply to the discussion: "You're meeting with the Pope?" "Yup". [View all]SunSeeker
(57,680 posts)Because my performance in this thread has apparently embarrassed you, and you appear to have become obsessed with me, and your tone continues to deteriorate.
1. No, he isn't attending a Vatican conference. Just because a pope founds an academy, or school or an orphanage, does not make those institutions "the Vatican" any more than this academy is. The NCR is not associated with the Vatican and does not speak for the Vatican. The Vatican's press office made clear, as reported in the NYTimes article I cited, it did not invite Sanders, the Academy did. Even the NCR, once you get past their click-bait headline, acknowledges that it is the "Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the conference."
2. Your "reality" is contradicted by the academy bylaws. An assistant is not the boss of the person they are hired to assist. Soronda may have been there longer, but that does not make him her boss, any more than a 30-year Park Ranger is the boss of the newly appointed Secretary of US Fish & Wildlife.
3. The way to win the nomination is to get the most delegates. Hillary left Wyoming with 11 delegates to Sanders' 7. That is the "win" that counts toward the nomination, and Hillary got that win. Again, maybe you should read past the headlines. Failure to do that is what got Sanders in trouble this week. Sanders claimed he relied on an incorrect WaPo headline that said Hillary thought Sanders was unqualified, when she said no such thing. But in a fit of pique, Sanders called her unqualified. Then he had to take it back. Sorry to rain on your Wyoming victory parade, but you brought it up in a fit of diversionary gloating and I was only correcting your misinformation.