Bernie took time out to try for a photo op at the Vatican, but ...

[salinsky]

... he didn't have time to stand with his fellow Senators in the filibuster for gun control, because he was preparing for his boring live feed non-concession speech.

He sent a tweet instead.

That's leadership!

[itsrobert]

1. Damn straight

Bernie was AWOL.

[eastwestdem]

17. Unforgiveable. This is THE issue of our time. nt

[Demsrule86]

2. That is leadership Bernie style...and of course Trump sends tweets too. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

3. One minute, he's an ATTENTION HOUND, the next NOT INTERRUPTING OTHER SENATORS

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Which is it?

God, it's like a sewing bee at times. The pettiness is astonishing.

The mental splitting that some are going through is quite astonishing.



One minute, Sanders is a media hound, just out to grab the spotlight at all costs.
The next minute, he's not telling other senators to stand down, because he is more important than they are.



The filibuster was successful, with the scheduled senators at hand.
Some here just seem to think that the senators who speak just run up to the podium, ad hoc.



http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/filibuster-ends-after-gop-agrees-allow-gun-control-votes-senator-n593396


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[Autumn]

6. One minute he's crashing the democratic party and needs to fucking go away cause he's not a real

democrat and the next it's why isn't he standing with the democrats. Fuck that shit, a bunch of fucking shit stirring noise is all it is.

[Else You Are Mad]

7. Bingo.

The fauxrage that the Hillary campaign spews has always been contradictory. The problem is that people have short attention spans and whatever the current fauxrage meme is the truth and nothing prior matters. Kinda of like how Hillary herself has changed positions when it suits her.

[liberal from boston]

20. Senator Sanders

Remember when Hillary supporters lost their minds that The Papal Office invited Senator Sanders to speak at the Vatican Economic Conference. I read comments on DU calling Bernie a liar, he begged to be invited, will not be allowed to speak at Conference, accused him of stalking Pope Francis & he will not meet with the Pope. Of course all their lies, attacks were proven false & thoroughly debunked.

[tonyt53]

34. Not hardly. Bernie was outed by a papal spokesman. Bernie asked to meet the pope

And meet is all he did. To say that Bernie was invited has been proven false and thoroughly debunked.

[roguevalley]

38. this is an example of the pettiness and suckingness of this place after the ban.

reminds me of junior high

[Raster]

41. No it has not. And I can't believe you are still obsessing about this shit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-vatican-idUSKCN0X5257

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was invited to speak at an April 15 Vatican event by the Vatican, a senior papal official said on Friday, denying a report that Sanders had invited himself.

"I deny that. It was not that way," Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo told Reuters in a telephone interview while he was traveling in New York. Sorondo, a close aide to Pope Francis, is chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which is hosting the event.

He said it was his idea to invite Sanders.

A Bloomberg report quoted Margaret Archer, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that Sanders had broken with protocol by failing to contact her office first.

"This is not true and she knows it. I invited him with her consensus," said Sorondo, who is senior to Archer.

An invitation to Sanders dated March 30, which was emailed to Reuters, was signed by Sorondo and also included Archer's name.

[840high]

58. Not true.

[Snotcicles]

56. I would like to know if Hillary ever divested her Walmart stock or are those shares still parked

in a blind trust. If they are she is profiting from the sale of firearms from this country's largest firearms and ammo retailer.

[CorkySt.Clair]

9. You sound angry.

[Autumn]

10. Nope not at all Cork. In fact I'm feeling damn good.

But I'm almost touched by your concern

[Scootaloo]

28. Does cursing make you clutch your pearls?

Maybe you ought to go back to listening to your Wiggles station on Pandora.

[CorkySt.Clair]

31. Awww

How precious you are!

[Scootaloo]

32. Out of your price range for sure.

[CorkySt.Clair]

33. LOL

I have no doubt.

[JRLeft]

12. Neoliberalism is what democratic party stands for now?

[Lord Magus]

14. "Interrupting"?

You think that's what it would've been if Bernie had come to the Senate floor and joined their filibuster? You think those senators couldn't have used one more voice to help them hold the floor?

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Unfortunately, yes. He's be called a showboater. There was no need for him to be there to pass it.

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This is just another lame excuse to rag on him, which is getting really tiring for someone who is a neutral Dem.

Most of the OPs on GD: P are just rag OPs, like some bitter teenager is writing them about Justin Beeber.

.

[okasha]

24. He'd have been called a principled Senator doing his job

Now he's notable only for his conspicuous absence.

[Scootaloo]

35. Nah, we've seen how any action he takes, any word he says, is cast as despicable and awful.

There are no exceptions to this.

[okasha]

36. Get off the pity-pot.

[anigbrowl]

25. Your argument makes no sense whatosever

In what sense would he have been interrupting other senators if he had joined in with them and got up to speak on schedule the same way they did? Nobody ever suggested he interrupt anyone, but congratulations on defeating that straw man you just put together.

[TheBlackAdder]

39. It makes no sense, because you're thoughts are senseless.

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He didn't need to get up there because there were others in wait, so for him to speak would have meant interrupting others on the floor or pushing in line. Keep trying to justify the pettiness.

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[uponit7771]

26. supporting other senators is somehow "interrupting now"?! Whatever

[aikoaiko]

4. Bernie's focusing on something with a fixed timeline and I support him.

The good news is that Democrats have been appeased with the opportunity to vote on two proposals that will do nothing to stop the next Orlando-type massacre under the same circumstances.

The proposals, if made law, may help in other situations.

[Autumn]

5. He has no fellow Senators, why should he stand with them?

[Else You Are Mad]

8. But... But...

Sanders is a true Democrat now that needs to stand with his fellow Democrats?

Yet another branch I have to add to my Hillary's meme attacks Bernies flow chart.

[Autumn]

11. It's so cute, like a Bernietouretts syndrome.

[anigbrowl]

29. So the people in the party of which he was running to be nominee aren't his colleagues?

Nice attitude. Great way to win friends and influence people - insist they be more inclusive, but if they need your help, protest that you're an outsider and have no reason to get involved. Good to know.

[Autumn]

44. Hillary supporters howl all the time that he's not a democrat so don't take me to task over their

absolutes. I'll wait for you to post a link of you taking them to task for their awesome efforts to win friends and influence people.

[anigbrowl]

49. It was Bernie who asked to run in the Democratic primary

He's said himself he wanted access to the bigger platform that running as a Democrat would give him. He got it and now he thinks it's more important to livestream himself speaking to a camera even though there are no more electoral contests left than to show up at his day job and lend a hand to the team that he chose to join.

[Autumn]

50. And the democratic party said yes. nt

[anigbrowl]

54. Guess he's one of those guests that doesn't like to help with the dishes. nt

[okasha]

40. So he's not a Democrat?

Well, that makes a neat solution to why he shouldn't have a speaking slot at the convention.

[Autumn]

42. That's what Hill supporters say. nt

[okasha]

43. That's what you just said.

[Autumn]

45. Indeed I did say that is what Hill supporters say..

if you haven't seen those posts you have all the right Hillary supporters on ignore

[okasha]

46. Your words:

"He has no fellow Senators..."

[Autumn]

47. Those are indeed my words, according to Hillary supporters they all hate him.

[redstateblues]

52. Merkley?

[global1]

13. You Need To Put Your Hate For Bernie To A Better Purpose....

Hillary won - or didn't you hear?

She's running against Trump not Bernie anymore.

You need to channel your energies and hate toward Trump and the Repugs now and get over the Dem Primary.

If all the Hillary supporters - like yourself - channeled their cute quips and cuts about Bernie towards Trump and the Repugs - Hillary will win by a landslide and we can probably give her the Senate and the House to boot.

Get over Bernie - he lost and he knows it.

Put yourself to serving your presumptive nominee now and use your posts here on DU and in social media to wipe out Trump and the Repugs. Please!!!!!!!

[awake]

15. Thank You.

It is time to move on. Oh and by the way Bernie won what really mattered the ideas of FDR can no longer be ignored, this party is moving back to it's roots the issues that Bernie has raised will become the base of a improved Democratic Party.

[salinsky]

18. I'm waiting for him to do the right thing, and then maybe I will ...

... but, so far all he's doing is repeating the rote speech and losing relevance by the minute.

[global1]

23. That's No Excuse - Set An Example And....

channel you energies to something positive. Take on Trump and the Repugs. Get over Bernie.

[anigbrowl]

30. Could you let Bernie know that Hillary won? He doesn't seem as caught up as you

Or maybe he does know but for some reason he can't bring himself to acknowledge the fact. Apparently he's still at the bargaining stage.

[LexVegas]

16. Who?

[chascarrillo]

19. Three more days...

[msongs]

21. bernie wins in vermont by appealing to gun owners. that's his base nt

[uponit7771]

27. Sanders voted for gun Corp immunity, I'm not shocked nor surprised NOT to find him in a gun control

... filibuster

[WhiteTara]

37. You said it for me. Thanks

[hobbit709]

48. and again.

[Eric J in MN]

51. If Sanders had flown to DC to participate in the filibuster

...Senator Christopher S. Murphy may not have let him speak from the floor. Then HRC supporters would have said: Ha, ha, look at how Murphy stopped Sanders from showboating.

If Sanders had flown to DC to participate in the filibuster and Senator Christopher S. Murphy let him speak from the floor, then HRC supporters would have said: Ha, ha, look at Sanders showboating by pretending to support gun-control.

[redstateblues]

53. I doubt it. Murphy is very sincere about this issue.

[CrowCityDem]

55. I guess the revolution works like Trump; TV over real work.

[840high]

57. What a small mind you have. Still jealous?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

59. How can one be jealous of the person who lost?