Re: Sun beams from billionaire’s behind
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:
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