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How Bill de Blasio Went From Progressive Hope to Punching Bag
New York Times ^ | August 6, 2019 | Matt Flegenheimer

Posted on 08/07/2019 8:16:37 AM PDT by OddLane

Aides to Bill de Blasio have long observed that he seems to grow happier with each mile of distance from the city he leads, and when the New York mayor arrived in South Carolina one Saturday in May, he had an air of weightlessness about him. run for president, announced two days earlier, came with an overnight makeover that had the City Hall press corps tittering: fresh navy sneakers, de-fuzzed sideburns, pants that fit. A sprig of white chest hair curled skyward beneath de Blasio’s open collar as he patrolled a nearly empty library in Columbia, S.C., looking like a brand ambassador for divorced dads trying to get back out there. “Can you slap me high?” he said as a young boy flailed at the slumping 6-foot-5 stranger...

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; billdeblasio; newyork; newyorkcity

1 posted on 08/07/2019 8:16:37 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Hope there never was, he’s a complete criminal idiot. Now the NYT has labeled him a victim. Where is the 850 mill you gave your wife for mental health? She doesn’t know where it is, she sez. Im sure its in an offshore account


2 posted on 08/07/2019 8:22:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: OddLane

Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.

Mr Rodgers says,

“Would you be my neighbor? Unless you’re Bill de Blasio. I hate that son of a bitch. He can move to hell.”


3 posted on 08/07/2019 8:22:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: OddLane

Bill de Blasio has the same problem Rudy Giuliani had. As mayor of New York City, he’s a “solution” to problems most Americans don’t have. And they’ll never elect him because they want to keep it that way.


4 posted on 08/07/2019 8:26:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: OddLane

“How Bill de Blasio Went From Progressive Hope to Punching Bag”

what a crock o’ shite: de Blasio was never anyone’s “progressive hope” (well, except maybe himself), because pretty much everyone who is anyone knows the man is a fool and an idiot, including those in his own party ...

heck, some very recent polls show Trump is more popular than Blasio in NYC:

https://www.amny.com/news/elections/de-blasio-trump-poll-1.34720260


5 posted on 08/07/2019 8:30:49 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: OddLane
The Democrats have been having a tantrum since Hillary Clinton, their anointed savior, was defeated by President Trump in 2016.

It speaks volumes about Democrats for them to choose someone like Hillary Clinton to be their messiah and moral leader.

They will do anything to indulge their tantrum and will stop at absolutely nothing to nullify the 2016 Presidential Election.

Frustrated at every turn by truth and their inability to violate the U.S. electoral process, their tantrum has become a rabid madness, as dangerous as it is frightening.

Pray that their madness will become obvious to all honest and decent people and that the American People in general will have the good sense to contain, suppress, and nullify it.

The alternative is too horrifying to consider.

6 posted on 08/07/2019 8:34:40 AM PDT by Savage Beast (When the Light of Truth threatens to expose corruption, it's the corrupt who try to extinguish it.)
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To: OddLane
“Can you slap me high?” he said as a young boy flailed at the slumping 6-foot-5 stranger...

Oh I would love to. And his thieving wife too.

7 posted on 08/07/2019 8:35:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ronnie raygun
Where is the 850 mill you gave your wife for mental health? She doesn’t know where it is, she sez. Im sure its in an offshore account

That's Clinton-level graft! And I thought they were a couple of idiots. Not so... very accomplished grifters.

8 posted on 08/07/2019 8:37:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: OddLane

Why is Hannity having him on for the full hour?


9 posted on 08/07/2019 8:49:55 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: OddLane

Progressive hope? You mean Communist rat bastard. Same thing, I guess.


10 posted on 08/07/2019 9:04:21 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: blueunicorn6

Even Mick Jagger made fun of de Blassio at the concert Aug 5. Right before the encore Mick stated to the crowd that Bill finally showed up.


11 posted on 08/07/2019 9:09:59 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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