New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been running/not-running for President altogether too long now. He tipped his hand early on when he quit the Republican party last summer, only to spend a lot of time declaring that he wasn’t going to run. Then, throughout the fall, while the other candidates were running six months ahead of schedule, he spent his time quietly making inquiries about running. He even showed up on “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve” and told Ryan Seacrest that he was absolutely NOT running. Then he staged some bogus “post-partisan conference” the same day as the New Hampshire primary and got all pissy that he wasn’t cheered as the Savior Of The Nation.
So nobody’s fooled, Mike. We all know you’re going to announce as an independent candidate, so give up the pretense of waiting to be “drafted”. The Times article and this New Yorker “Talk Of The Town” piece by David Remnick both come to the same conclusion: Obama took your turf. Running as an independent brings along all the baggage of every other independent candidacy; independents can’t win, they can only act as spoilers, and in the worst-case scenario turn the candidate into a national running joke like good old Harold Stassen.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
This New Yorker wants him to stay the hell home, as the prospective alternatives for mayor are, to put it mildly, disheartening on all sides. Bloomberg’s done a pretty good job as mayor, and I’d like him there as long as possible.
Albany is such a morass of snakes, though — he’d have a much tougher time there, I’m sure.