Vaticangate: Our First Look At Sanders' Diplomatic Acumen

[stopbush]

He scored a solid F.

Next up: Sanders heads to the Middle East to accept full and unconditional surrender of ISIS.

[Iliyah]

1. The Vatican is not liking this one bit.

[liberal N proud]

2. Yep

[Treant]

3. "That means Fantastic!"

--Sanders campaign statement, coming soon to a media outlet near you.

[Cha]

4. F-!

[stopbush]

10. That's a Y-U-U-U-G-E effing F!

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[Her Sister]

5. Fail plus

F+

[artyteacher]

6. is it me or is the sanders campaign close to collapse? eom

[Iliyah]

7. Yep

OK it's fine to go to the Vatican for a conference, which personally I believe is odd at this time, but hey. But just tell the truth and/or facts of what happened in regards to follow up to the invitation.

GEEZ

[workinclasszero]

8. Bernie don't do diplomacy

He just screams about banks and wall street while pushing...people...away from his podium.

[pandr32]

13. He forces his way

Even in his fantasies

[workinclasszero]

15. Sad but true

SMH

[geek tragedy]

9. the Vatican is a thorny entity to deal with, even Francis gets burned by it.

See, e.g., the Kim Davis thing.

Sanders team clearly not up to the job.

[Cha]

11. It's unreal.. they always get busted but they keep doing this misleading underhanded stuff..

Not Cool with any of it . but, the Vatican?! Really, berni?

[NurseJackie]

12. Deceptive, disingenuous and misleading ...

... pretty much what I've come to expect from his campaign these days.

[stopbush]

14. And now there's a back-n-forth of conflicting reports about who contacted who, when

etc.

That is NOT the way you do international affairs/diplomacy. You lock it in, air tight, with all parties agreeing to the press release before you put it out there and make a fool of yourself. And a fool on an international level. Sheesh!

Contrast the way No Drama Obama has handled world-shaping incidents to this premature ejaculation by Team Sanders. And over a damn photo op, no less.

Not ready for prime time.

[NurseJackie]

16. There must be a REASON that none of his Senate colleagues have endorsed him ...

... actually, there's probably more than one reason they haven't. I think what we're seeing now (and for the past few weeks and months, actually) is a good example of exactly WHY the folks who know him BEST have taken a pass on endorsing him.

Not ready for prime time.

Exactly.

[NastyRiffraff]

17. He should fire the person in his campaign

who came up with the bright idea to ask for an invitation to the Vatican. That's a rookie mistake and pure malpractice by person or persons in the campaign.

It's most likely someone in the campaign's fault that the invitation was requested, but Sanders himself owns the fact that he said the pope invited him (or rather, answered "yup" when asked about it).