NPR: Bloomberg: Next Year Will See An Adult in White House

Bloomberg: Next Year Will See An Adult in White House

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg definitely will not be invited to the ranch in Crawford, certainly not after his remarks about President Bush Thursday.

The New York Post reports that Bloomberg, former Democrat, former Republican and now Independent, was "hosting the city's most powerful executives at the Four Seasons for the annual distribution of the 'New York City Card,' a guide to the issues that top the mayor's agenda."

Bloomberg, and his friend California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, fielded questions on topics ranging from redistricting to free trade. During one of those discussions, Bloomberg quipped, "at least we'll have an adult in the White House next year."

Ouch.

Bloomberg himself still hasn't back a candidate yet. "I'm looking for a candidate who is willing to face reality and say we can't have everything."

10:21 AM ET | 04-18-2008 | permalink

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"I'm looking for a candidate who is willing to face reality and say we can't have everything."

you mean like we can't really conduct war on two fronts and cement massive tax cuts and keep our fiscal house in order simultaneously?

you mean like we can't achieve universal health insurance/care without everyone paying at least a little something into the pot?

you mean like we can't secure medicare without either a) radically liberalizing immigration with an age cutoff (in steps over the next 30-40 years) or b)inserting a demographic component into cost sharing and/or taxation (several european countries charge households without children a slightly higher (between 0.5 and 1.2% of total income) higher tax rate on the contribution to long term care insurance) and/or a needs-base in benefit allocation and lottery system for "elective" surgeries?

THOSE realities? looks like mike is gonna have to wait for another election cycle. in this "reality" our apparatus is much too obsessed with checking who was registered as a friend once upon a time in the pre-Web 2.0 analog to Facebook, what anyone they ever listened to has ever said, what recipes a spouse plagiarizes, and whether or not an anatomical feature has bee emphasized.

wherever would we find the time to deal with the other realities?

ps thank you NPR for at least making an effort in some areas to offer a bit of background

Sent by tim in exile | 11:06 AM ET | 04-18-2008

C.Rose interviewed these 2 leaders last night. It seems that the grass-roots businesses and the baby-boomers have cultivated good leadership talent. Too bad that this kind of talent cannot make its way up the 'political' food-chain....can anyone answer, WHY IS THAT? Unless the US-institutions re-engineer themselves, the global restructuring that is taking place, will leave us behind, to go quietly into the night.

Sent by mooshka | 11:14 AM ET | 04-18-2008

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