Bloomberg says he is not eyeing White House

NF Reporter · 06-21-2007, 09:37 AM

Reuters - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday he was not a candidate for U.S. president in 2008 despite speculation he quit the Republican party to prepare to run as an independent.

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waltky · 01-24-2008, 02:02 AM

Mr. Bloomberg goes to Washington...

In Washington, Bloomberg Says Politics Is the Problem
January 24, 2008 WASHINGTON — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City intensified his attacks on the political leadership here on Wednesday, pointing to what he called the government’s failure to fix immigration policy and other problems of immediate concern to the nation.

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In a speech before a group of his fellow mayors, Mr. Bloomberg described Washington politicians as shortsighted and said their priorities often reflected crass political calculations rather than sound policy judgments. “We all know that spending decisions in Washington are driven by whatever will attract votes and campaign cash,” he said in criticizing the government for running up enormous budget deficits over the last few years. Mr. Bloomberg’s comments come as he and his aides contemplate whether he should embark on a third-party presidential candidacy this year.

While maintaining that he is not a candidate, Mr. Bloomberg offered a speech before the United States Conference of Mayors that was clearly intended to reinforce the notion that he represents a more pragmatic style of leadership distinct from the partisanship of Washington. For example, he told his audience that he had recently joined a nonpartisan coalition of mayors and governors that planned to advocate for less politically motivated federal spending on highways, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

“The problem isn’t that we’re not investing enough in infrastructure,” said Mr. Bloomberg, who recently became an independent after leaving the Republican Party. “It’s that we’re investing badly. It’s time we start spending on the infrastructure America needs, not the pork-barrel projects politicians want.” He was also critical of the economic stimulus package that is currently being negotiated by Congress and the White House. That package is expected to include tax rebates that policymakers hope will encourage spending that would, in turn, help jump-start the economy.

But Mr. Bloomberg called that approach shortsighted and argued that the stimulus package should include help for homeowners who are facing foreclosure. “The most important and immediate economic relief we can offer is to help people who are in danger of losing their homes stay in their homes,” he said. “What good is a rebate going to do for a family who is about to lose their home?” He also used the speech to rebuke Congress for failing to enact a new immigration policy that would secure the nation’s borders and ensure that businesses have access to skilled and unskilled workers from abroad. “Illegal immigration has become the pandering politician’s best friend,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/wa...l?ref=nyregion

bizwiz · 01-24-2008, 08:33 AM

Bloomberg is an economist and I would like him to be president so that he can handle the current sub prime crisis because I believe he is the most qualified to do so among the candidates.

domainer50 · 01-24-2008, 11:05 AM

I am somewhat disheartened that he has decided to drop out of the race. I wanted to see this man become president if for no more than the reason that it would be "cool"

sunken · 01-24-2008, 03:16 PM

To run as an independant which is what he would be forced to do is always at a disadvantage. Why spend a lot of money and time doing so, only to lose the election anyway due to the way the system works? I think the candidates would do well to consider him as a vice president.

Icorigin · 01-24-2008, 05:17 PM

Many pro-democrat media-establishment subversives spout off and blatterize against The HOLY BIBLE, against genuine-but-occasionally-faltering Christians embracing The Bible, against in-context Biblical verses and correspondingly-correct doctrines, and against Biblical morals......but mention what should not even be mentioned (pertaining to the possibility of a [not-at-all-equal-to-man!] woman President).....which they fanatically, shamelessly, and incessantly advocate to impudently brainwash and surreptitiously sway as many naiive and gullible victims as they mercilessly can to mindlessly accept their errant, false, half-lie (NOT "half-truth"), deceptive, deviant, deceitful, bigoted, hateful, cruel, abusive, wrong, misleading, plus devastingly-detrimental ideologies and presumptuous mis-postulations.

"Give the Devil an inch, and he will take a mile." "Let Satan only get his foot in the door, and he will go in and take over the whole house." "An ounce of [DO-NOT-vote-for-Obama-nor-especially-Hillary] prevention is worth FAR more than a 'cannot-do-anything-about-it-now' "cure."

Already, the blatant arrogance of mainly-democrat subversives has been allowed and imposed in preliminary-conquest sexist invasions against God's Word and common sense by those who used every feminist-chauvenist and despicably-harassing trick they could concoct to get into power such inferior-gender weaker sex as Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Madie Albright, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Janet Reno, Condi Rice, Amy Klobuchar along with a host of similar ilk, and finally House Speaker Nancy Pelosi advised by the subservient anti-Bush antagonist Harry Reid.

Now the greedy-for-feminist-empowerment subversives are 'going for [political-government-authority ] broke' by laying all their women-in-charge-over-men cards and chips on the highest-political-election-ever gambling table. Not merely mentioning that a WOMEN could become President, airheaded and boneheaded pundit pollsters continue on unabashed by miswording loaded polling questions like: "Are you ready for a woman President?" [being that that is "not such a big deal anymore" with women cops, sheriffs, state patrols, legislators, judges, lawyers, store and banking and licensing clerks, corporate executives, realtors, and of course female clergy in upper ecclesiastical positions rife and reeking in confusion and consternation-causing proliferation].

The record of Scripture is in NO way altered, changed, cancelled, obsoleted by those feminists of toiletworthy flushing, regarding:

Leviticus 27:1-7 = A female human is worth less than a male human. (paraphrased)
Numbers 5:31 = The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 30:13 = Any vow and any binding oath a wife makes to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.
Ecclesiastes 7:27-28 = One good male politician and news reporter I have found, but a woman among all these I have not found. (paraphrased)
Isaiah 3:12 = My besieged people are harassed by nondisciplined oppressive bratty children and ruled by feminist-sexist women mispretending they can think like a man. (paraphrased)
Nahum 3:13 = NY Senator Hillary did nothing to stop the fiery 9112001 genocide. (paraphrase)
Matthew 15:22-26 = And hey, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon." But He did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is harassing us."
Luke 11:27-28 = As He said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts that You sucked!" But He said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"
First Corinthians 11:1-16 = The head of a woman is the man, and the head of a man is Christ...It is not the custom of the churches of God to let a woman presume that loose long hair is equivalent to a prayer shawl. (paraphrase)
First Corinthians 14:33-38 = As in all States of the Union, women are not allowed to speak but must remain in silence....What I am saying is not merely my opinion, but rather is a command of the Lord. (paraphrase)
First Timothy 2:12-14 = I allow NO woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to be silent. Adam was formed first, not Eve. Adam was not deceived, but the woman - being deceived - became a transgressor. (paraphrase)
First Peter 3:7 = Husbands, live considerately with your wives, giving honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, that your prayers be not hindered. (paraphrase)

ARE the activist MAJORITY who will campaign with the power of a thousand voters and more votes besides their own one lone and outweighable single vote work for who their Lord Jesus Christ wants in electoral power, according to the holy and righteous parameters He directly and indirectly defined in His Sacred Bible?

CAN Republicans, Independents, and even Democrats perceive and honestly admit that John McCain did not support the welcomed Bush Tax Cuts, has partnered with Ted Kennedy in legislation, and looks like a over-aged cheap imitation of Don Rickles?

WILL don't-rock-the-boat sensible stabilizers of this nation who are NOT nuts and mentally ill.....gratefully devoid of a reckless/follow-the-leader teenaged-party-spirit/gang-oriented suicidal insanity.....HONESTLY, THOUGHTFULLY, and CAREFULLY study the horrendous, consistent and deplorable pro-abortion-choice voting records of both Obama and Hillarius?

WILL they instead be caught up in a demonically-"inspirational" twisted oratorical euphoria of some anarchistic version of the last movement of Beethoven's Choral Ninth Symphony consisting of kooky pie-in-the-sky solve-all-the-world-problems everyone-unite-together-in-peace-and-cooperative-prosperity [we've-heard-it-all-before political-speech] rhetoric (reminiscent of the hynotically-captivating rantings of the ruthless Fuehrer of nazi antisemitism)?

ARE those particular americans who are intolerably-corrupted, polluted, and impenitent about it - who are on the broad and easy road to temporal and eternal punishment - doomed to fall for impractical and non-realistic babble warned against over and over and over all throughout "the injust harsh-judgment Old Testament and lovy-dovy/forgive-everybody-for-everything New Testament" (as mis-described by the damnably blasphemous)?

Free flow of vital intelligence operations and reports were hampered, omitted, restricted, inhibited, stifled and suppressed not only because playboy-immentality security agents were overwhelmed with deep respect and awesome admiration towards both the fully-bearded male and cultically-fundamentalist, unusually-modest, black robed-and-shawled, hijab-attired, female islamic....but because of orders to funnel everything to a short-skirted legs-bared young black woman who Bush [regrettably] appointed as National Security Advisor. However, George W. the Aggressor made up for it by his shocking military incursion into sovereign strict-law-and-order Iraq with the non-admitted consequence of defending our ally Israel from repeat-SCUD-missile-launching terrorists who were actually training and arming in Saddam's Iraq (thanks but no thanks to atheistic-communist suppliers infesting Russia, China, etc.)....and the publicly-declared excuse of protecting our imported-OPEC foreign oil so as to not endanger the overall financial structure of the entire planet in our nuclear-weapons-saturated global powderkeg.

We cannot now let the malicious anti-patriarchal fun and games of flippant feminists get out of hand and take over. No matter WHAT voting-aged youth and middle-agers misthink [in either deliberate stupidity or woeful ignorance]....or instead thankfully think....Scripture verses of relevance non-relentlessly and non-compromisingly [hear that, Huckabee?] guide EVERY-one concerning (and not "regarding") the diabolical Obama-Hillarius contest, competition, and critical-destiny warfare against a Jesus-Is-The-Son-of-God-confessing, classy and handsome Mitt Romney with whoever his [hopefully: male!] VP running mate will be.

And the GOP is NOT that "divided." Would not ALL of the Republican candidates who have bit the campaign-trail dust, are biting it now, and will soon bite it, sooner or later, actually, and in fact, give greater importance to the issue stances about which they crucially concur with embarassingly-mopheaded-family-females Romney, and lesser importance to those legitimately-adjustable positions they presently do not quite agree with him about? Would not ALL authentic GOP-Party Presidential candidates and their bonafide supporters and funders as an eventual whole ultimately give Romney their support, endorsement, and vote.....instead of relinquishing in internally-self-destructive defeat to the racism-oriented Obama and feminist-sexist Hillarius?