Climate change game change: Bloomberg endorses Obama
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Climate change game change: Bloomberg endorses Obama
With each passing hour, it's looking more and more like Hurricane Sandy is the Cuban Missle Crisis of climate change -- and a political moment we'll long remember.
Much like Gov. Christie's post-storm embrace of President Obama, there's reasons to be cynical about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (and plenty of reasons to dislike him) but this is a stunning turn of events however you look at it:
In a surprise announcement, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that Hurricane Sandy had reshaped his thinking about the presidential campaign and that as a result he was endorsing President Obama.
Mr. Bloomberg, a political independent in his third term leading New York City, has been sharply critical of both Mr. Obama, a Democrat, and Mitt Romney, the president’s Republican rival, saying that both men have failed to candidly confront the problems afflicting the nation. But he said he had decided over the past several days that Mr. Obama was the best candidate to tackle the global climate change that the mayor believes contributed to the violent storm, which took the lives of at least 38 New Yorkers and caused billions of dollars in damage.
“The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of next Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief,” Mr. Bloomberg wrote in an editorial for Bloomberg View.
“Our climate is changing,” he wrote. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be — given the devastation it is wreaking — should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.”
The other interesting thing, and a sharp twist of the political knife to Mitt Romney's back, is that Bloomberg said he could have endorsed '03 Romney. Probably a lot of folks could have -- more proof that the Tea Party and talk radio may have destroyed the Grand Old Party for a long, long time.
In almost every competitive general election, the party that loses the contest has also lost independent voters. This is because most people vote strictly along party lines: the Democrat might be all but guaranteed 80 to 90 percent of the Democratic vote, and the Republican 80 to 90 percent of the Republican vote. Except in certain regions of the country where one or another party encompasses a particularly wide range of ideologies, it’s independents who swing the vote, since they represent the overwhelming majority of the votes which are up-for-grabs. This must necessarily be the case.— Mr. Smith- sadly for you there are not enough independents left to get rid of obama's 2 point lead. obama, at the buzzer, 2 points and obama wins. lol.
- Ray Nagin was a joke. I still remember Bush flying over the devastation in Air Force One. But your comments are indicative of the whole right wing agenda. Still looking to get back at libruls for Watergate ("Benghazigate, "Monicagate") and now we are seeing an attempt to repay libruls for Bush's incompetence during Katrina.
You and the rest of the GOP are vindictive, petty and downright toxic - not to mention desperate.— wokmaster - toxic is right on the money. I think they would rather see the country destroyed than see Obama reelected. Get a hobby you wack jobs.
- Watch Mitt jump on the climate change bandwagon quicker than you can say "Look Daddy, Seamus has the runs!"— montani semper liberi
- Benghazi looks like a perfect storm of macro foreign policy incompetence and electoral pressure induced malfeasance wrapped in a nice package of obfuscation, aided by the leftist media-opinion industrial complex. You can't honestly argue that the Adminstration has been honest or forthcoming about what happened and why it happened. Maybe after the election the "Investigation" will give us some anwswers. Yeah, I'm not holding my breath on Obama telling us anything.
I couldn't care less about Monica's humjobs. At least at the time we had a President who cared about some kind of jobs. Any jobs. Would have been nice for the last four years.— Mr. Smith - "aided by the leftist media-opinion industrial complex"
This is the reason I wanted to share my experience of watching Fox News last night. Now I understand why wingnuts think that there's a "mainstream media left wing bias". After watching the propaganda on that station, it's no wonder why it's viewers think that everything else is liberal (assuming you take seriously the Fox motto of "fair and balanced"). In order to believe that nonsense, one would have to be pretty naive in the first place.— wokmaster - I'm sure you watch Fox News for the same reason I read Huffington Post and watch MSNBC. There's endless humor for the contrary partisan.— Mr. Smith
- This is apparently what Barry meant by "cutting through the red tape" and "not leaving anyone behind": "Crews from Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity (Ala.) headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees. The crews that are in Roanoke, Virginia say they are just watching and waiting even though they originally received a call asking for help from Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The crews were told to stand down. In fact, Moore said the crew from Trinity is already headed back home. Understandably, Moore said they're frustrated being told 'thanks, but no thanks.'" People are suffering mightily, but union Democrats tell help to go away. This is the Democrat party that cares about the little guy. This is Barry's base. Forward.— bill a,tkins
- Please humor me and post the link, so I can see where you picked up this right wing drivel.
— wokmaster - I don't find it funny when the clowns at Fox try to turn the death of our Ambassador into a "scandal" for political purposes. Fox has used every resource at it's disposal to try and turn "Fast and Furious" into Iran Contra. Didn't work. Now Fox is attempting, almost exclusively, to turn the attack in Benghazi into a modern day Watergate. Won't work either. And they'll look for something else once this fails.— wokmaster
- And yet you diminish Benghazi and express faux outrage over the "politicization" of the gross incompetence and malfeasance by the President. And you wouldn't even know about it if you got your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo.— Mr. Smith
- And this post explains alot about why you think the way you do and reinforces my earlier post. If it's not Fox, The Washington Examiner or The Wall Street Jounral, you think it has a librul bias. The Washington Post has people like Gerson, Rubin, Krauthammer, Will and other conservatives - but it's just not enough for you. Has to be ALL RIGHT WING NONSENSE, all the time for you to take it seriously...which is why your comments can't be taken seriously. You're a poor man's willy atkins. — wokmaster
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