"Bernie Sanders’ whirlwind Vatican tour began with a motorcade, tearing through the legendarily
bad Roman traffic roughly 10 hours after the previous night's debate in Brooklyn finished. Italian motorcycle police escorted the senator, who hadn't even had time to shower, let alone change or practice the speech he’d finished writing overnight on the chartered plane.
By the time Sanders made it to the Vatican walls Friday, a small crowd of about two dozen expats wearing Bernie 2016 campaign t-shirts and carrying "Feel the Bern" signs — one that read "#RomeIsBerning"
His remarks to a Vatican conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of an encyclical by Pope John Paul II to mark the end of the Cold War were brief —
Bern Force One landed at the private terminal in Rome with just 52 minutes left on the clock before he was scheduled to speak at the Vatican conference.
Sanders made it in time to deliver a truncated, globalized version of his standard campaign address, soon after Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa addressed the audience in a small conference room surrounded by warm, deep-green courtyards and palatial, high-ceilinged rooms topped by intricately painted ceilings.
For hours Sanders was sequestered there, behind a placard reading “B. Sanders,” sitting and grinning next to Bolivia’s socialist (and anti-American) president Evo Morales.
Before he left though, after much speculation about whether he would receive an audience with the pontiff, Pope Francis came through for him. Sanders got a brief five minute audience with the pope early Saturday morning, just when it seemed he would be leaving without any face time." Politico
By the time Sanders made it to the Vatican walls Friday, a small crowd of about two dozen expats wearing Bernie 2016 campaign t-shirts and carrying "Feel the Bern" signs — one that read "#RomeIsBerning"
His remarks to a Vatican conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of an encyclical by Pope John Paul II to mark the end of the Cold War were brief —
Bern Force One landed at the private terminal in Rome with just 52 minutes left on the clock before he was scheduled to speak at the Vatican conference.
Sanders made it in time to deliver a truncated, globalized version of his standard campaign address, soon after Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa addressed the audience in a small conference room surrounded by warm, deep-green courtyards and palatial, high-ceilinged rooms topped by intricately painted ceilings.
For hours Sanders was sequestered there, behind a placard reading “B. Sanders,” sitting and grinning next to Bolivia’s socialist (and anti-American) president Evo Morales.
Before he left though, after much speculation about whether he would receive an audience with the pontiff, Pope Francis came through for him. Sanders got a brief five minute audience with the pope early Saturday morning, just when it seemed he would be leaving without any face time." Politico
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