On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> NYC mayor and multibillionaire Mike Bloomberg has announced that he's
> leaving the Republican party, and speculation is that he intends to
> run for
> president as an independent. According to the media, he's willing
> to spend
> $500 million of his own money on a presidential bid.
>
> It's interesting to note NY Times blog responses to this news.
> Overwhelmingly, posters see Bloomberg as a brilliant and selfless
> technocrat
> whose bid deserves the public's thanks and support, rather than as
> as an
> egotistical rich guy throwing his money around and a would-be
> tyrant. What
> saps Americans are:
> <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/mayor-bloomberg-
> quits-the-gop/>
As bourgeois politicians come, there are a lot worse. I'd rather see him as president than Hillary. He'd be more likely than anyone else running to do something about climate change.
Doug