Mike2008.com Is Live
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election
Well, sort of.
Mike2008.com links back to Michael Bloomberg’s homepage MikeBloomberg.com .
Also, he’s talking like a candidate again, this time saying that America has been “immoblized” by the war.
Despite the mayor’s assertions that he’s not running for president, Bloomberg’s remarks on the state of the nation and its standing overseas suggest he’s thinking bigger than New York City.“We have no answers as to how we’re going to have energy independence,” he said. “We don’t have a good immigration policy that will carry this country forward. Overseas, we have many problems. We’re not liked, and sadly, our reputation’s gone way downhill overseas.” [...]
Bloomberg is already holding candidates accountable. He rebuked the current presidential contenders for pandering to the public and not talking about what he believes are the big domestic issues: public education, guns and crime.
“Nobody’s willing to & say explicitly, ‘This is what I believe. This is how I would improve education, for example,’” he said.
Bloomberg also said the situation in Iraq has hurt America’s status, and he’s going to continue to voice his opinion on what he believes the country should do.
“We are a superpower, where we’re probably immobilized because of Iraq,” he said. “We don’t have the equipment or the stomach to go and be the superpower, if it’s needed someplace in the world. And we have to address these issues.”
No, he doesn’t sound presidential. Not at all…
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July 26th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
“He [Michael Bloomberg] is frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election and fueled that speculation when he left the Republican Party in June 2007.” – Wikipedia
I don’t get these politicians. Does Micheal Bloomberg or Joe Lieberman for that matter, believe that by slapping a new label (Independt) on themselves that they are somehow “squeaky clean” or more appealing
by calling themselves Independents? What in the hell is an Independent anyways? Is that a polotician that initially cast his lot with Bush when it was politically expedient to do so, but when the shit hit the fan they scatter and stick a button on their jacket that says “I’m a INDEPENDENT.” Lol! there is only one thing worse than a chicken hawk, pro-war Republican, and that is a Republican/Democrat that supports ill-conceived wars when its popular but then runs off and slaps a sticker on himself that says “Independent” so he can somehow “appeal more” to the voter base. As far as I am concerned the word “Independent” means smarmy, slime-ball politician.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:29 am
On an odd note both sites are registered anonymously by proxy but to different companies.