"Get in my belly!"
Posted on 04/21/2009 9:26:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Michael Bloomberg is planning to run for reelection as the candidate of the Republican Party, and of the Independence Party.
He is also running, for all intents and purposes, as the candidate of the Democratic Party.
Take the mayor’s apparently successful pre-election quest for the favor of Barack Obama.
In recent days and weeks, he has defended embattled Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Meet the Press, lambasted critics wishing failure on the president, enthusiastically endorsed the president’s health care plan, featured a special video message from Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett at an event on volunteerism and finally, on April 21, pay dirt: He attended the president’s signing of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, at which Mr. Obama introduced him as “the outstanding mayor of New York.”
According to one senior Bloomberg campaign official, speaking on background, the campaign is “hoping that the substantive interactions on policy impact the White House’s thinking down the road on politics.”
One wonders at this point what other political favors the White House could bestow upon the independent-registered Mr. Bloomberg. The “outstanding” comment may have been a ceremonial flourish, but the words—and more important, the imagery—will be particularly unhelpful to Bill Thompson, the well-intentioned and badly overmatched city comptroller who, barring unforeseen circumstances, is going to be the person on Election Day who actually occupies the “Democratic Party” space on the ballot.
But for the Bloomberg campaign—which has virtually unlimited resources at its disposal and has hired so many accomplished consultants and operatives that idleness might be a real problem—the unofficial endorsement from an exceedingly popular Democratic president was merely part of a plan to run him as a progressive champion for, if not of, the city’s dominant party.
“He’s trying to win by smothering everybody else and taking everything on the table,”...
(Excerpt) Read more at politickerny.com ...
Someone needs to sue this guy for fraud, and when that’s done, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Actually I can see the reverance from the Obama camp as Bloomberg really pulled a classic Chicago move on New York. He eliminated the competition. Yeah it cost him some coin of which normally the Chicago way is to use OPM, but what the “H”.
What’s for Obama and the machine to not respeck with that?
Bloomberg has more than enough 'coin' to feed his oversized do-gooder ego.
It's just a damn shame that Bernie Maddof didn't manage his investments.
Sounds like Rudy when he was mayor
more proof that bloomberg is the smartest man in new york. he should run for govenor next.
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the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America ActIt's a cook book!
Bloomberg and Obama seem very similar to me in their Megalomania.
It’s a cook book!*****
Yeah, it’s cooking Liberty to a point where it will not be recognizable.
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...if he ate the democrat party, han he be tried for cannibalism/murder?
"Get in my belly!"
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