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In his novel “Anna Karenina,” Tolstoy writes that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Something similar can be said about New York City mayors: Successful ones share policies and leadership traits, while the failed ones chart individual paths of doom. Over the last five decades, Gotham has experienced both. The successful mayors — Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg — stand tall because they took office in times of crises and turned New York’s fortunes around. They had their warts, but each left the city better off than when he started.

Mayor Bill de Blasio finally pulled the plug on his ill-fated presidential bid that failed to draw more than 1 percent support in national polls — but brought plenty of ire from New Yorkers who elected him to run the country’s largest city. “I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election and it’s clearly not my time so I’m going to end my presidential campaign,” de Blasio said on “Morning Joe” Friday, over four months after launching his long-shot campaign on May 16. The 58-year-old — notorious for his tardiness at official city events — said...

From the website: "This is a thank you to Rocky Anderson, a class act. " Yes, a low-class act. A Bush-bashing, troops-disrespecting, appeasing capitulationist. If you don't know who Rocky is, he's the lowlife mayor of SLC who has publicly protested and trash-talked President Bush and the War on Terror many times. Now, the libs have a Rocky love-fest site, where they can all worship him for his courage to "speak truth to power." Yadda yadda yadda. So far, over 400 moonbats have posted their fawning, slobbering praise over on this website: http://www.thankyourockyanderson.org/wordpress/ Let's thank Rock ourselves, FReeper-style.