It seems Bernie's big adventure was worse than first thought

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11. Francis is a pretty savvy guy.

I'm sure that Francis is totally wise to what was going on, and, like the very astute (and enraged) president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Margaret Archer (who called Bernie's pseudo-self-invitation "monumentally discourteous", and was clearly outraged by the way her conference was hijacked by the political machinations of Sanders, Sachs and Shank), less than impressed with the shenanigans of Sachs, Shank and Sorondo.

Given the fact that the conference attendees were staying in the same guest house as the Pope, the handshake was almost surely a minimalist compromise to handle a really stupid situation.

As Charles Pierce (who knows) always reminds us: "Never f*ck with the Jesuits." And that includes, most definitely, Pope Francis.

And Bernie is continuing, shamelessly, to misrepresent and exploit this whole misadventure.
Not impressive, to say the least.