Michael Bloomberg has soared to the number two position in the most recent national poll. This qualifies the former NYC mayor to debate Crazy Bernie Sanders, Pete B, Joe Biden, Amy K, and Elizabeth Warren. I actually like everyone left standing with the exception of Bernie Sanders and would support any of them over Trump except Bernie Sanders.
This is my Bernie Sanders intervention moment on my small blog. You want to know the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party in the past four years? It wasn’t Hillary Clinton. More to the point it’s the do nothing fantasy pandering Democratic Socialist from Vermont.
BTW, speaking of Vermont… Bernie voted ‘no’ there around four times as a congressman on gun control measures because he withered from the hunting lobby in his tiny little state.
Bloomberg will be prepared, albeit probably a bit rusty, but he should be fine once he gets through the first fifteen minutes. Be careful what you ask tomorrow night, Bernie Boy. All those young Bloomberg staffers from places like Harvard and Yale know even more about you than the guy at okcthunderground.com.
Bloomberg is not a rock star debater like Obama or Bill Clinton. That won’t be him tomorrow night. He’s a steady grinder. Obama and Clinton are/were Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard…. Mike B is more like Smokin’ Joe Frazier per the boxing analogy.
I keep reading he did this horrible thing with the frisk and search in NYC in an effort to save black lives in what was then a war zone, but here’s what Michael Bloomberg didn’t do….he didn’t vote for Bill Clinton’s Crime Bill in 1994 which in reality was far more punitive towards blacks as far as excessive federal sentencing practices.
Bill Clinton put this into law, not Michael Bloomberg. Bernie Sanders voted for it as a congressman. Joe Biden voted for it as a senator. Amy Klobuchar enforced it as a federal prosecutor. All three participated in punitive and excessive sentencing towards the African-American community. Are we sure we want to go there on cross examination, guys?
Race and law enforcement are/were tough tasks. Ask Pete B how that’s gone as mayor of tiny South Bend. When Mike Bloomberg was mayor 80% of gun related homicides in NYC involved black males between the ages of 18-28 years of age.
You think Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were cool with that at the time? I don’t think so. In fact, the inverse argument was being made when Rudy Guliani started the stop and frisk policy: ‘Why are you indifferent to our black children being murdered?’
As far as tough talk–I mean, if you can’t handle some F bombs here and there in the highly intense world of trading and finance…you might be in the wrong line of work. The story about ‘killing it’…. I simply don’t believe. Who talks like that? Even the grifter pos fuck Trump wouldn’t say that.
As far as red-lining goes…read Michael Lewis’s The Big Short if you want to be up to speed on the practice on how bundled traunches of high risk high default mortgages were a part of the 2008 financial crisis.
New York guys talk tough and to the point. I coached hockey with a guy from Long Island for four years. It’s a different language…literally. I was in shock the first week.
But from what I’ve witnessed of late from the Democratic National Party is they could use a little tough talk if they want to beat Donald Trump this November.
This is famous author Michael Lewis. Lewis quit at Solomon and went on to write the iconic Liar’s Poker which kick-started his writing career and a list of NY Times bestsellers. Unlike Michael Lewis….. Michael Bloomberg was fired at Solomon Brothers then started his company Bloomberg after this setback at the age of thirty-nine. This is Lewis talking about his books Liar’s Poker and The Big Short.