In what some might find a convenient dismissal, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declares today,
"I don’t think that I disagree with what any national party stands for because I don’t think that either national party stands for anything."
Oh? This anti-partisan statement might have a lot more impact, or at least some meaning, if Bloomberg boomed it from the floor of Madison Square Garden in 2004 at the Republican National Convention -- which he courted and which used Ground Zero as a political backdrop while his PD swept up and detained bystanders at peaceful demonstrations. Instead the anti-partisan mayor, who needed the GOP line for the following year's re-election, minimalistically declared his support for President George Bush's re-election and avoided any clear leadership on the issue of the war, saying it was not a municipal concern.
Anyways -- as the mayor would say -- here's a rudimentary Web site with great comico-serious potential that's all about a Bloomberg presdiential run.
Dan Janison
Comments (2)
Another example of Newsday bias - notice there is no page for criticism of Saint, I mean U.S. Congressional Rep. Carolyn McCarthy?
Joe Mondello is there to take a swipe at though?
Interesting
Dan,
Has anyone commented on the enormous "dis" Michael Bloomberg is showing for Rudy Giuliani through this stealth presidential politicking? After all, Bloomberg spent many millions of dollars in 2001 to advertise Giuliani's endorsement of him for mayor. Has politics changed so much that such a personal affront as this is the ordinary course of business?
Paul Moses