he goes onto the john gambling show every friday, and gambling asks him alot of broad questions about the hot topics of the day - and he gives his opinion.
My opinion -- Bloomberg is the second luckiest man ever to walk the earth -- Ringo Starr, of course, being the absolute luckiest. The guy waltzed into City Hall with a semi-booming economy, low crime etc. etc.
Once he hits a speed bump, then he'll quiet down.
post 9-11, the economy in NYC could have gone either way.
Are you referring only to his tenure as mayor? Considering the financial business he built, I don't know if 'lucky' is the right word. What he's done at City Hall is one thing, but before that, if you put aside the politics, I think he's more a case of smarts & hard work than luck.
And Ringo Starr's ability is severely underappreciated, usually by people who don't know much about how good he was & how important his metronome-like timing was to the musical aspect of what that band did. The popular conception of him as a goofy fourth wheel is completely inaccurate.
I would agree that Bloomberg is barking up the wrong tree here--with an idea that looks good on paper for this or that reason, but which might well be a disaster in practice. If one is going to consider an idea that goes against the grain of small-gov't conservatism, which is something I try to examine on a case-by-case basis, well, this ain't the one.
Dude - Bill Clinton!!! WJC was THE luckiest man ever to walk the earth. Perot entered the race and handed him the election. He inherited a growing economy that he managed not to screw up, and he had the Commie media on his side. If not for the last two, he would have been a one-termer, and would have been tied with (or ahead of) Jimmy Carter for the worst President ever.