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November 21, 2007
Bloomberg Getting In?
Several months ago, an independent candidacy for president by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a widely discussed possibility in the national press. Bloomberg is a popular mayor, who had been a Democrat, switched to Republican to run for the NYC post, and earlier this year dropped his Republican affiliation. Oh, and he's fantastically rich -- can you say self-funded campaign?
For whatever reason, however, talk of a Bloomberg run has died down in recent months, as focus shifted to the nomination races in the two major parties. Well, the chatter is back.
Apparently, Bloomberg has been taking counseling on foreign policy issues (his big area of inexperience should he run) from Nancy Soderberg, a former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Clinton administration foreign policy advisor. While Soderberg is denying comment, she is already being dubbed "Bloomberg's Condi." If the Mayor decides to run, let's hope Soderberg is a better teacher and he a better student than those role players last time around.
Bloomberg definitely bears watching.
Posted by houtopia at November 21, 2007 10:21 PM