Posted on 10/28/2010 8:09:59 PM PDT by iloveamerica1980
New York City Mayor Ed Koch in a interview on YNN Capital Tonight in support of (R) George Phillips's Pro-Isreal agenda and against Democrat incumbent, Congressman Maurice Hinchey's Anti-Isreal voting record and agenda. Koch, a Democrat, has a track record of backing common-sense Republicans.
Media babe: "The Democrats are poised to loose the house. You could contribute to your own party loosing control of the house. Does this concern you?"
Koch: "It doesn't bother me at all!"
“lose” not loose the house.
I don’t agree with Ed on everything but he moved up several notches when he said he’d happily go down to the dock and wave buh-bye to the UN when the day came.
I know he is a liberal and has some other proclivities most of us find objectionable, but I have always adored Ed Koch. To me, he has always personified “chutzpah.” And he defined what it means to be the very essence of the Big Apple.
if you add the smell of urine.
The fact is he was a lousy mayor surrounded by corrupt buddies. While he did not appear to be corrupt he did absolutely nothing to stop his buddies from the Bronx and Queens from looting the city. He only looks good when compared to his successor David Dinkins.
Heh, yes. An engaging old coot. Like Truman Capote, desperately wrong, but engaging and colorful none the less, and very definitely an individualist.
I have a feeling you might be a New Yorker, because you certainly have insights into the Old Queen that I don’t. Guess I just liked him because he was so colorful.
He was definitely fun to watch. And he was personally honest. I went to school in lower Manhattan, right across the street from City Hall. I used to him walking down the street, by himself, no security detail, heading to the World Trade Center where the Governor had an office. He was a regular guy, just a cog in the machine.
But there’s an intellectual honesty about him that is completely devoid in most dims. I remember him fighting with Mario Cuomo about the cost of Medicaid. Mario said he wanted a Cadillac plan. Koch told him, “We can only afford a VolksWagen.”
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