HRC ROOM - I found video of Jeffrey Sachs at last year's PASS event (Plenary Session)

[LisaM]

It's like watching a slower-moving version of C-Span. See how engaged everyone is as they rustle their papers!

Note to everyone: I'm not denigrating any content here - I just don't think that this is the important, large-scale world media event we've been led to believe Bernie was invited to.

[SunSeeker]

1. Skype should be used for this stuff.

Skype would be way more environmentally friendly.

[LisaM]

2. Riveting, isn't it?

There's something strange about the whole thing - at least to me! Also, that guy gives me the creeps. He looks like Trent Lott for one thing (which he can't help, though he could change his glasses and haircut). I can't put my finger on it, but there's some used-car salesman aura to him.

[SharonClark]

3. So true

[IamMab]

4. LOL, true. "Friend of the environment" Bernie Sanders, berning 2 days worth of jet fuel for 10 min

of showboating.

[LisaM]

5. Show boat? The energy in that room

is more like a pontoon boat.

[okasha]

6. The poor man to his right is bored to desperation.

[SanDiegoDem]

7. Oh My Word

That man might be one of the most boring human beings in existence. I lasted 35 seconds, and I was trying hard to listen! monotone...monotone.. pause....drag....monotone....
ugh. And he's talking about human trafficking, which is an incredibly important subject and making it sound as non important as possible. so... let's see: similar important topic (A moral fiscal construct)... similar boring human being in one Bernie Sanders and then a bunch of pointless spitting and arm waving.... I wonder if everyone will just find a way to fade out of the room so they don't have to sit there through it... ugh...

I can't imagine being in such close quarters with the spitter/waver/bloviator. maybe it's some kind of penance for Catholics.
Poor catholics. Isn't Sanders a self proclaimed atheist to boot? WTF is he going to go there for? I mean, what pretense can he sell for being there? Cause as far as I can tell from his own spittle-fest self-description, he's Jewish, atheistic, pro choice, pro gay marriage, and against income inequality. And he's going to Vatican city? Is not the church a great source historically of income inequality? Doesn't a couple thousand years of history sort of show the Roman Catholic Church as a rather fiscally driven institution? No? The poor in Rome eat as well as the cardinals and Pope?

Okay then....
whatever....

[LisaM]

8. Yep. This is the plenary session

At this major conference.