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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
However Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the chancellor of the Academy, speaking on the phone from New York, said he extended the invitation to Sanders, though he repeatedly declined to say who initiated the contact.
“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 the invitation was extended, he said, “Quite some time ago.”
Archer didn’t respond to subsequent phone and e-mail requests from Bloomberg for a response to Sanchez Sorondo’s remarks.
Oh, look, bureaucratic miscommunication at its finest. I probably wouldn't know without considerable research, so does anyone happen to know whether the president or the chancellor are higher up in the hierarchy?
Edit: Update
, turns out the chancellor was higher up, says he was the one who invited Sanders, and says the president knows it. What a manufactured controversy.
edited 8th Apr '16 2:12:49 PM by darksidevoid
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.And yet I'll bet it's all over certain news outlets.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Ouch. That was the crown jewel of Walker's legacy. I wonder how he'll react.
Ted Cruz wins three more delegates in Colorado, raising total to 18.
"Here's the truth. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I respect Hillary Clinton. We were colleagues in the Senate and on her worst day, she would be an infinitely better president than either of the Republican candidates," the Vermont independent said.
Asked if she's qualified, Sanders said, "Of course."
Beyond the Post headline, Sanders also told CBS News' Charlie Rose that he was also responding to an effort by the Clinton campaign "to go much more negative on us. And they have," he said. "What I believe is that there are surrogates all over the television making that point — they think I'm not qualified."
edited 8th Apr '16 3:33:04 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.I want Bernie to stir things up and make the establishment take notice, but I want him to do so in a way that is not self-defeating in terms of splitting the Democratic Party at a time when it needs to be unified. I am also sorely disappointed by the absence of concrete steps to achieve his lofty ideals. I think that it is extraordinarily unlikely for him to win. If he does, I'll vote for him. But this primary race is starting to lower itself, and if it goes much farther, it'll start to resemble the other party's.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I just wish he would be realistic in his policy proposals, instead of promising the moon with no idea how to actually accomplish it.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayYeeeaaah, the Republican party started with a low bar and then lowered it against everyone's expectations that it could go lower. Sanders and Clinton have quite a ways to go before they actually start to look like the absolute joke that the Republican debates have reached.
In any case it sounds like Clinton needs to hit Sanders on his supposed lack of concrete plans. I'd hit that harder, really.
Really though I just wish this whole primary process didn't take so freaking long.
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That's the problem though.
Bernie doesn't want to be some no-chance candidate like Larry Lessig or Jill Stein, whose only role is to raise awareness of issues and maybe move Hillary to the left.
Bernie wants to win. He wants to be president.
edited 8th Apr '16 9:00:48 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.The issue is that a good number of voters don't want an Establishment President. The only difference is that Republican voters are better at rejecting people who they see as Establishment like Jeb! or Rubio than the Democratic voters are. Both Trump and Cruz have Anti-Establishment cred which helped them succeed where Jeb! and Rubio failed. It also helps that the Democrats only had two completely valid candidates from the outset since the Democratic Primary was supposed to just be the crowning of Hillary as the nominee before Sanders decided to become a Democrat and run.
edited 8th Apr '16 9:41:12 PM by GameGuruGG
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Unsurprising. The most aggressively conservative guy I'm in communications with did all they could to defend Trump until eventually he crossed their Moral Event Horizon when Trump refused to denounce the KKK.
I like this guy. As much as I like appropriate punishments for crime, if the state cannot provide due process, it does not have the right to punish anyone.
edited 9th Apr '16 2:07:32 AM by Ramidel
Fix'd. The forum software went on another bender.
Rubio to GOP: Seriously, guys, back Obama up here and give him some money to fight Zika.
edited 9th Apr '16 2:27:15 AM by Ramidel
The straw-grasping from the Sanderistas is really becoming tedious. It's like Orwell's "transferred nationalism", only transplanted onto a political candidate. Just finished watching Cenk "What Armenian genocide?" Uygur telling his audience that Krugman doesn't know much about economics. And Sanderistas calling Krugman a liar, a VSP (particularly hilarious if you know the history of that term), and saying he has no credibility. It's comical.
Schild und Schwert der Partei

Given Cruz's "New York Values" comment he was already going to have a tough time there. That was just such a colossal flub on his part.
Arizona we are looking at you, judging your choices.