It seems Bernie's big adventure was worse than first thought
It seems that the Pope was confronted by reporters about Bernie Sanders while the Pope was trying to set the media stage with the Syrian refugee crisis. The purpose for the Pope's trip out of the country was to rescue some refugees and bring them back with him. He had hoped to stir interest in the media about his trip, his concerns about the refugees--bringing international attention to the critical ongoing problem. Instead, Bernie Sanders had his own international agenda. 
Yes. our grandstanding challenger for the Democratic nominee picked this important time to finagle an invite to a conference where he wanted to speak--getting penciled into a coffee break spot. He had been touting his impending "meeting with the Pope" and "invitation from the Vatican" falsely for a week--stirring media interest from here--deliberately, too (the point! Obviously!)
It is all about Bernie.
Bernie then used campaign cash to fly himself, his extended family, his SS agents, staff, and reporters on a hu-uuuuuge chartered jet burning tens of thousands of gallons of fuel on a turn-around trip to Italy to do so.
While there he ambushed the Pope and got a handshake--not a meeting, and spoiled the Pope's careful plans.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/pope-francis-wanted-todays-news-cycle-to-be-about-syrian-refugees-not-bernie-sanders/24504/
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The brazen self-serving agenda of Sanders makes him completely blind. How could he even think he is ready for the international stage? To foil the Pope's mission--what an important "meeting!" Way to go Bernie.
on the campaign's dime, flying high on a chartered jet, to make a huuuuuuuge splash in Rome @ the Vatican "meeting the Pope".. being "invited by the Pope"
they didn't seriously pull that bullshit, did they?)..
And, everything was going along until the reporters asked the Pope his version of events.
Of course, BS sucked all the air out of the room and the plane.. Pope Francis was on an Important humanitarian mission and instead of the plight of the Syrian Refugees all the reporters talked about was BS' "secret meeting with the Pope" that turned out to be forced handshake.
I hear BS likes the Pope so much.. do you think his eminence approves of BS' scheming maneuvers?
Mahalo, pandr~
Yes--perfectly put, Cha! The Pope was on a humanitarian mission and Sanders on a self-serving one. The old guy from Vermont is not ready to be a leader...ever.
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.
Hopefully some of his supporters who did not like that he called Sec. Clinton "unqualified" will have had enough and give up the ghost. Sanders is not ready for prime time. In fact, he is a disaster waiting to happen, as his big "misadventure" to Italy proves.
Good to know!
Remember that Melissa Perry Harris lost her show because she refused to go along with the station agenda of morphing into a political "reality show" that wants to build drama more than report the truth. She wanted to be able to have some control as a journalist--they want higher ratings. Keeping Bernie in the game gives a horse race nail biter narrative unfortunately. He continually gets a pass.
I can't even stand the so-called "news" anymore. Things will change...soon.
