{"id":1643,"date":"2006-10-04T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/not_to_sound_too_skeptical_but_name_the_last_nasal-voiced_short_jewish_mayor_unaffiliated_with_any_political_party_to_become_president.html"},"modified":"2006-10-04T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:55:29","slug":"not_to_sound_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/not_to_sound_to.html","title":{"rendered":"Not To Sound Too Skeptical, But Name The Last Nasal-Voiced, Short, Jewish Mayor Unaffiliated With Any Political Party To Become President . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8217;08 passes an important, important first hurdle &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/20061009\/20061009___pageone_editorials.asp\">apropos of nothing in particular, somehow convincing the Observer editorial board to print a fawning endorsement of a bizarre pipe dream to see Hizzoner in the White House<\/a>*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When Mike Bloomberg came into office in January 2002, downtown New York was in ruins, and the city&#8217;s financial and emotional health were precarious at best. Mr. Bloomberg, new to the business of governing, immediately grasped what needed to be done. He came to grips with the city&#8217;s finances, made public education his personal crusade, vowed to build on the anti-crime successes of his predecessor, and reached out to New Yorkers in all five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>He has presided over the transformation of the New York Police Department into a world-class counterintelligence agency. Amazingly, even as that transformation has taken place, the NYPD continues to win the battle against more conventional street crime.<\/p>\n<p>That is a record that commands attention. That is the record of a Presidential contender.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>As a businessman, Mr. Bloomberg simply went out and did what he had to do. And he succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>As a Presidential candidate, he has a chance to do the same. He ought to think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful possibility: Mr. Bloomberg runs as an independent, Mr. Giuliani wins the Republican nomination, and Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee. Can he beat those two in a three-way race? You bet he can.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No country in the world deserves that last part.<\/p>\n<p>*Is this an example of New Yorkers being incredibly insular or just shamelessly, totally un-self-aware?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8217;08 passes an important, important first hurdle &#8212; apropos of nothing in particular, somehow convincing the Observer editorial board to print a fawning endorsement of a bizarre pipe dream to see Hizzoner in the White House*: When Mike Bloomberg came into office in January 2002, downtown New York was in ruins, and the city&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,14,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop","category-political","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}