2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNo Evidence Bernie will be "Speaking" at Vatican Conference
He's listed only as one among the "Other Participants" -- not as a Participant.
The Participants are the people who are there to give plenary talks or to respond to those talks. Those are the people who are speaking, I would guess. They even get head shots in the program.
The "other participants" are probably there to listen and maybe raise a question from the floor.
Kind of a low level thing for a man who fancy himself the next leader of the free world. I mean he gets billing below the Presidents of Ecuador and Bolivia. Poor guy.
Check out the conference program and Bernie's billing:
Other Participants
Anthony ANNETT
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York
Norbert ARNTZ
President of the Board of the Theology and Politics Institute, Münster, Germany
Fernando De La IGLESIA VIGUIRISTI
Associate Professor, Pontifical Gregorian University, Vatican City
Rocco MIMMO
Ambrose Centre For Religious Liberty, Founder and Chairman, Sydney, Australia
Bernard SANDERS
United States Senator from Vermont, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election
http://www.pass.va/content/dam/scienzesociali/booklet/centesimus_annus.pdf
pangaia
(24,324 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)GD-P has been particularly entertaining the last few days..
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Lodestar
(2,388 posts)We are interested in having him because we have two presidents coming from Latin America, I thought it would be good to have an authoritative voice from North America, Sanchez Sorondo said. Asked when he when the invitation was extended, he said, Quite some time ago.
kennetha
(3,666 posts)Did you see what Bernie's role is?
Where is his speaking slot? Nowhere to be found.
Nanjeanne
(4,969 posts)Those attending will get the most up-to-date agenda. Or he could be participating on a panel now that he has accepted the invitation. They aren't listing him as a participant, other or not - if he is just sitting in the audience or - as you probably would prefer - handing out name badges at the registration desk.
But even if he doesn't have an entire slot to himself - here are some bios on the Other Participants that you seem to want to diminish:
Tony spent sixteen years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, with stints in the European, Fiscal Affairs, and Communications departments. In this role, he worked as an economist on a variety of countries and regions including Bulgaria, Ghana, Euro Area, Iceland, Jordan, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. Most recently, he worked for five years as speechwriter to two successive Managing Directors, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christine Lagarde.
Tony received his B.A. (First Class Honors, Gold Medal) from Trinity College Dublin in 1991, his M.Litt. from Trinity College Dublin in 1993, and his Ph. D. in economics from Columbia University in 1998. He is also a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a papal order of chivalry.
This is a translation so may have incorrect grammar and spelling.
Rocky is a Sydney based lawyer. He has a Masters Degree in International Law from the University of NSW. His post graduate Masters studies included an emphasis on Human Rights Law. He is married with 8 children.
He has devoted his adult life to working on social issues and running organisation attempting to influence public decision makers on critical moral social issues. On these social moral issues, Rocky works in the background in and around politics. Although not party politically aligned, he can boast to being very well connected to both sides of politics at the Federal and State level. Rocky has made numerous written submissions and frequently been invited to give oral submissions to Parliamentary Committees Inquiries into contentious moral and social matters. He has published several articles arguing the case for religious liberty and human rights. After many years of involvement in the moral social issues and noticing the decline and deterioration of religious and cultural values, Rocky founded the Ambrose Centre For Religious Liberty in 2007. The Ambrose Centre was launched in Sydney in April 2009.
Yup . . . slackers . . . all of 'em!
TheBlackAdder
(28,210 posts).
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seabeyond
(110,159 posts)He knew he was not speaking to the Pope, meeting the Pope. He knew it.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)You are a fool to bet otherwise.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Sanders knows he is not meeting with the Pope, yet says he is meeting with the Pope. How is that not a lie?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)It's like that time I was invited to DC to visit the White House and to see President Obama.
Totally true!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Any maybe of the month.......
Congratulations.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Something for your splitting hairs.
Nanjeanne
(4,969 posts)reasons to diminish it.
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