n the end, Bernie Sanders got something almost as good as a picture with Pope Francis: blanket international news coverage and a chance to deliver his stump speech wrapped in the words of the pontiff, one of the most popular leaders on the planet.
How can it be that one man setting himself on fire for having his fruit confiscated by a government employee ignites a revolution in Tunisia, but a constant string of injustices will result in business as usual in America?
As he passed through Spokane for the second time in a week, Sen. Bernie Sanders met privately with members of the Spokane Interfaith Council and a handful of local faith leaders.
Bernie Sanders is the only Jewish candidate in the presidential field of two Democrats and three Republicans, and he will also be the only one not addressing next week’s annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
I agree with some of the criticism of Bernie, such as the question of how someone as progressive as he is could hope to work in any productive way with a Congress that’s unlikely to fill up suddenly with socialists and Green Party members
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been a longtime fan of Pope Francis’ positions on social justice and income inequality, and now he says the pontiff is in fact a socialist — just like himself.