2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhich event has better Optics?
I am wondering what is everybody's opinion on VaticanGate so here is a poll to gauge opinion...
Which event has better Optics?
29 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
A $353,000 Clooney Fundraiser in Los Angeles | |
0 (0%) |
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A $2,700 a plate dinner with the CFO of HRC, Gary Gensler, a former Goldman-Sachs executive (in Hong Kong) | |
1 (3%) |
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Attending a conference on poverty at the Vatican, where one may or may not meet the pope and where one will give a speech on the idolatry of money | |
28 (97%) |
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)It's almost as if some of them sense deep down that their candidate is rotten, but they can't come to terms with it so they thrash in agony.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)The Vatican shindig was undoutedly an "optics" move.
Couldn't agree more, this is what politicians do.
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)brooklynite
(95,012 posts)1. Raising money for the Party and other candidates show's CLinton is a team player.
2. there will be little coverage of Sanders in Rome (especially if he gives the same basic speech he's been giving for months), UNLESS he meets the Pope (which he won't because the Pope will be in Greece)
3. Celebrity appearances never hurt