Posted on 04/16/2016 9:32:30 AM PDT by Fasceto
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen.Bernie Sanders was invited to Vatican City to make a speech about income inequality. Despite the Vatican initially saying there would be no meeting between Sanders and Pope Francis, one happened anyway Saturday morning.
Because of the political nature of the meeting, the Vatican initially had tried to distance itself from Sanders' visit, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane. But the Pope did meet Sanders and his wife in a brief meeting.
On a terrace overlooking Vatican City, Sanders told CBS News "beauty" "resonated" from Pope Francis.
"Are there pictures of this meeting with the pope, or was it behind closed doors?" Doane asked.
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EVERYTHING with Sanders, like Obama, is political. These socialists LIVE for nothing but politics.
Of course it was not political. /s/
Was he selling ocean front property in Vermont at the same time?
Bernie SHOULD NOT become a liar like Hillary... it’s beneath him...
Grandpa is off his medicine again.
Someone get him back to the rest home quick.
And the bear doesn’t defecate in the woods.
"No, if I was really being political, I'd be in New York City right now and not in Rome," Sanders said. "For me, the issues that the pope is talking about are issues that I've been talking about for many, many years."
Sanders is a candidate for the Presidency. By definition anything that he does that the public knows about and most everything he does that they do not know about is political by definition.
Saying something like that shows how stupid he thinks the public is.
Going to Rome and meeting with the Pope is a defacto attempt to have the Catholic voter to assume that the Pope endorses his socialist views. Which apparently this Pope does.
He was either seeking absolution or a confessional audience with him then, right?
It was not political? How many Jewish guys from Vermont has the Pope met with since he became pope and for what reason.
You’re a politician, Bernie.
So is the poop.
Of course it was political.
So this atheistic, SHJ met to convert to Catholicism?
Got it
The Pope should butt out of our politics....remember the big concerns when John Kennedy was running that the Pope would exert undue influence on our President and our politics? Denied of course, but here it is.
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If Bernie wants to see the Pope for confession, he should wait until after the election.
They were discussing the nuances of the Talmud and the Pentateuch not politics./s
Horse poop.
Just two socialists/communists getting together!
Not at all. He was just getting another fellow traveler to sign his Che Guevara t-shirt.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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