Did I tell you about my trip to Rome last month?

[brooklynite]

I DID travel DL business class; I find that if you have meetings the next day you really need those lie-flat bed seats. Had some drinks in the lounge (could have had dinner there but I always enjoy the business class menus). Lovely wine served and regularly refilled.

Admittedly, my hotel was only E160 a night, but that included breakfast and free wifi.

Sadly, I couldn't bring my wife along; it's always nice to travel with family, but sometimes schedule conflicts don't work out.

Really, if you're going to Rome for just the weekend, it's the only way to travel.

[msongs]

1. if you were a certain prez candidate flush with $$ you coulda brought a whole plane-load of people n

[brooklynite]

3. I generally find you can beat the traffic AND save money by taking the train from the Airport...

...you have to transfer, but ROMA-SAN PIETRO station is only 45 minutes away.

[scscholar]

26. And given them all lamb! (ntxt)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. You guys are so butthurt about Sanders' trip to Rome.

I think that level of butthurtedness is pretty funny. Can't think why you care any more; maybe you should try to get over it and resume your usual gloating.

[brooklynite]

4. I don't mind the trip....

...in fact, if I thought he had flown to Rome to pander to Catholic voters in New York, I'd have more respect for him as a politician.

Admittedly, taking your family along was unnecessary. Jane could have used the weekend to get Bernie's tax returns released.

[melman]

5. lol

@ the renewed focus on this Rome thing. Next up: Susan Sarandon and her elitist ping-pong club.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Actually, Upstate New York is lovely in the spring.

That's the closest to any Rome you'll ever get.

Get over it.

[brooklynite]

7. I'm on the Board of a School in Rome...I go there every year.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Yeah.

Sure.

[brooklynite]

10. Feel free to look it up

http://sssrome.it/trustees

[morningfog]

29. No one cares, lol. You are a punch line! Lol.

[brooklynite]

19. I get it; the 13 million Clinton voters are all 1%ers?

Well, the Obama economic recovery has certainly been effective...

[brooklynite]

22. New Campaign Slogan: "You're too STUPID to vote for Bernie Sanders"

Catchy...

[Electric Monk]

23. Some are 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I am not impressed (WINK)

I have been to Rome, Athens, and Cairo. That is Rome, Athens, and Cairo Georgia.

[Different Drummer]

16. +100. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. And Havana

Florida.

[840high]

33. lol - so have I.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. What hotel did you stay in? Thanks!

[brooklynite]

13. Villa San Pio, on the Aventine...

10 minutes walk to the Circus Maximus, 15 minutes to the Coliseum and the Forum.

http://www.hotelvillasanpio.com/default_en.html

What's really nice is that you're away from the noise and congestion of the Centro Storico.

[CurtEastPoint]

15. Thanks for that. And sorry I waded into a family feud, apparently!

Arrivederci!

[PufPuf23]

12. How petty and self-entitled you are.

You should be embarrassed over this OP but have no shame.

[brooklynite]

14. I was wondering if anyone would reach for the bait....

You can provide us with your hostility to Sanders spending 150 times more than I did to take his family to Rome for the weekend?

[cwydro]

24. Bwahaha! You did hook one.

I was reading this smiling, but thought no one would fall for it.

[melman]

32. This is what passes for clever?

JFC, like anyone didn't know what the OP was doing.

[cwydro]

34. Apparently, several did not.

Read the thread.

[PufPuf23]

30. I have no idea what Sanders spent to go to Rome. Gulp!!!

My comments regards Sander's trip to Rome were of two types:

1) Clinton supporters went way out of the way to categorically diminish and make ugly the event (most of my posts). Never made a claim that the Pope endorsed Sanders but rather that Sanders was something more than a Pope stalker.

2) The USA and Democratic party looked bad in how the Pope and Vatican had been drawn into particularly petty American politics.

I may not have clearly stated that the trip was an understandable political stunt in nature.

I am not a supporter of the Vatican or Pope or religion in politics; but the current Pope seems more liberal than the previous Pope..

Regards the cost of the trip and the finances of Sanders compared to Clinton:

Hillary (and Bill) Clinton became ultra wealthy because of their political career and Sanders did not. The Clinton net worth and income is 150X more than that of Sanders. Plus the Clinton control a non-profit foundation that has had more than $2 billion in endowment. The Clintons collected $143 million for paid speeches to groups that did not have the best interests of most Americans foremost in their concerns. Two of those speeches exceeded the Sanders annual income. To their credit, Hillary Clinton has a well-oiled political machine and many powerful allies in government, identity political groups, and corporate industry. Sanders likely had new experiences that are common place for the Clintons. The Clintons travel domestic and international with the affluent, certainly more affluent than what the Sanders experienced in the trip to Rome, and the cost and arrangements are of no personal concern on their part - their ordinary lifestyle.

I am an antiwar liberal. I do not support neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism. I identified age 15 as Democrat and registered and voted for McGovern in 1972 when of age. I have been faithful though at times critical.

I would never vote for Trump nor GOP; if Trump is elected and goes too far off the rails I expect that the GOP would be more than willing to facilitate Trumps removal.

I am deeply troubled by Hillary Clinton as a Democratic POTUS.

I am also somewhat unnerved by the Clinton supporters.

Your OP comes off as gloating and ever so accustomed about a trip to Rome; a trip most of the readers here at DU and even more Democrats in general will never have the opportunity to experience. If they are so fortunate to travel Rome, their experience will not be that of yours because you are the seasoned traveler.

Americans should have the experience of Rome.

[msanthrope]

20. Damn, he baited you. nt

[PufPuf23]

31. Gulp !!!! lol I am laughing with you.

Read my other post if you care.

[thucythucy]

27. Years back when my sweetie and I went to Rome

we stayed in the youth hostel, which is the former Athletes' Village for the 1960 Olympics. Just today, watching the news, she told me, "Hey, we slept in the same building as Mohammad Ali!"

We loved it in Rome. I'd go back any time, given half the chance.

[Retrograde]

28. When I travelled for work

my company would spring for business class only in special cases - like customer meetings immediately after you landed - so I did a lot of intercontinental travel in coach. Then I learned they had no objection to me spending miles to upgrade myself, so I did that with the airline miles I got putting hotels, etc. on my own credit card and getting reimbursed. It makes a big difference in being alert when you get there, so I don't begrudge Sanders traveling in business class.

The one time I went to Rome on vacation I rented an apartment near the Vatican. It's nice having a place to make one or two light meals a day, and encourages one to get out of the tourist cocoon. It was about the price of a medium-range hotel, no breakfast, but a full kitchen and a washing machine! And a short walk to a subway station: Mr. Retrograde has no problems springing for business class (if you shop around and are flexible it's about twice coach) but insists on taking public transportation. Chacun a son gout...

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. You probably lack the self awaremess to realize this

but this post is not nice.