Bloomberg: Looking Forward To An Adult In The White House

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who decided against a White House run, said Thursday his endorsement will go to the most straight-talking candidate and predicted "at least we'll have an adult in office who can lead and can accomplish something."

Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent, later ducked a question about whether he was taking a shot at President Bush.

"He's not a candidate for office. There's a constitutional provision that prevents him from running for a third term, and last I checked, he wasn't trying to change it, nor was anybody advocating that it gets changed, as far as I know," Bloomberg said.

The billionaire mayor made the comment during a question-and-answer session with a political pal, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at an annual luncheon he hosts to discuss his political agenda.

In making a decision about whom to endorse, Bloomberg said he is not trying to decide which one of the three matches up with him ideologically, but he added that he wants to know which one is "willing to face reality and say, 'We can't have everything, and there are costs and we've got to make choices.'"

"Some of the things they'll be in favor of, I'll agree with. Some of the things they'll be in favor of, I won't. But at least we'll have an adult in office who can lead and can accomplish something," he said.

Schwarzenegger has already endorsed fellow Republican John McCain.

Comments

[sugarmoes]

and a non-psychopathic criminal

[HopeObama08]

we'll see

[cramos]

Gee ...what a bunch of hypocrites...when Bloomberg hosted Obama in NYC for that irrelevant speach you guys fawned over Bloomberg.

Now he is the enemy.

I am buying stock in the pharma industries being BI POLAR is in epidemic

[MajorKong]

Look at the size of that flag pin he's wearing! He must be extra patriotic.

[outnow]

He is such a small guy that the pin looks large.

[batgirlevi]

He must love America more than anyone!

;)

[ohiodem250]

I just got finished watching Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger on Charlie Rose sitting side by side discussing issues. I kind of want them to run as a ticket. And I would consider myself a solid Democrat. But they seemed to be making a lot of sense. Anyone else catch it?

[mamacat]

Heady stuff. Sometimes Charlie has really good interviews, no?
Arnold did some real "straight talking" (as opposed to the unreal kind) - the states and local governments are trying to do something about global warming, because Bush refuses to, and now Bush tries to throw roadblocks in their way! (in my opinion, he is doing the bidding of Exxon and similar corporations)

It is very refreshing to see politicians actually talking sense, of whatever party. I am not sure that it would be productive to have the two men run on a third ticket, but it would be great to see them partake in the new administration. Perhaps Arnold could be in the federal gov't, in charge of doing something about global warming and alternative energy development? Mr. Bloomberg could probably do anything he set his mind to.

[dugan45]

I'm watching it now....I record Charlie for later viewing. The both sound sensible so far.

[dblamps]

What I will mention here tonight ...
As adults are being for once being mentioned
NC Obama ....Brushing off Hillary Clinton.
He did not just brush off Sen. Clinton...
Sen. Obama gave her the finger...
And his supporters went wild...
Of course he will play Eddie Haskell once more..
However if you look at the tape it is pretty clear what he is doing.. His "fans" got it..
What in the world!

[fun2bfree]

This must be just like when he "snubbed her handshake" at the State of the Union that no camera saw that covered the whole thing..sort of like that running for the cars in Bosnia thing...the Clintonites and their candidate certainly don't feeel constrained by any conventional thinking like TELLING THE TRUTH.

[4wehttam]

Sen Obama didn't give her the finger, VOTERS DID, that's why she's BEHIND in pledged delegates, in MOST states won and MOST POPULAR votes. Voters gave the she-devil the finger, remember that!!!!

[HopeObama08]

you know where you can put your own finger, right?

[jsfox]

Oh please. This comment smacks of paranoia

[ErnestineBass]

OMG!

Finally...an HONEST politician!

Whatever shall we do?

Guffaw!

[findingthetruth]

Wow! YOU could EASILY get a job with Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos.

[eladora]

He would be a smart man not owing anyone to assist in the next admininstration. I hope they use him

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

Bravo.

[MajorKong]

I suppose an adult would be better than the petulant man-child currently getting his mail at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[jbaldy]

obviously, Bloomburglar has lost his marbles, too. in addition to losing the respect of a lot of us.

[Indoboy7]

Adult-child are both insulting terms to describe the mental midget that has taken up space inside the White House ,since nine people in black robes decided to chuck the "one-man-one-vote" rule america was counting on...If intellect/smarts could be expressed in ;liquid form, Dubbya's would not hide the bottom of a thimble..ABC broke ground on national TV by having a pair of talking boobs lead the "debate"...PArdon me, while I go hurl.......ABC, those two lamebrains owe you their paycheck, demand it back from them...P.Wormer

[ProudLiberalDan]

Now Bloomberg takes a shot in Bush?

He should have been run out of town on the rails for supporting the GOP in 2004 and bringing them to NYC for the convention, when nobody in this bluest of cities wanted them there.

Bloomberg should apologize to New Yorkers for supporting Bush in 2004, a President who has been an utter disaster for New York City, not to mention the country as a whole and the world.

[jbaldy]

HORSE MANURE! Bloomburg should apologize to OUR PRESIDENT BUSH for his stupid and useless comment.

[ProudLiberalDan]

Bush misled the nation into war under false pretenses against the wrong country and got away with it. If you don't like what Bloomberg had to say, you really won't like what I'd tell Bush right now to his own face.

[bigfated]

It is YOUR president bush who is horse manure!

[ErnestineBass]

Speak for yourself and that worthless excuse of a Supreme Court, baldy.

THAT "MAN" IS NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, and NEVER WILL BE, MY PRESIDENT.

Never.

[tryharder2think]

You won't make it any farther with ideas like those.

This place is changing.

Get ready for it...

try harder 2 think

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

One man's smart and one cannot find smart.

One man gets things done (his whole life) and one man travels and takes vacation days.

[cmaff05]

Apologize for what?

[RThM]

Sounds to me like he's beating around the Obama endorsment bush.

[hopelessobama]

he said 'straight talk' not 'booming false platitudes'. he said a candidate who realizes we can't have everything (i.e. national healthcare, social secuirty, medicare, medicaid, federal funding for green jobs, and trillions more in big government) he said strength to get things done, real legislation not just speeches (mccain-feingold, mccain-edwards, mccain-lieberman) and a strong support of israel doesn't hurt either. bloomie is gonna go with mccain, just like the govinator. these guys want moderates and independents, not far left progressives.

[RThM]

No. He's too astute a businessman at heart. He left the Republicans to become an independent and I just don't don't see him going back. McCain will loose in the Fall because he's just another rider on the Bush-Clinton, Republican-Democrat merry-go-round that has spun out of control. The mood in the country is starkly different and most people, be they Republicans, Democrats or independents, want some real change. They will not elect this bobble-headed necrarch to continue playing war games as usual and keep running the economy into the ground with incompetent policies.

[CTtransplant]

I agree with you RThM! I think it was a slap at Clinton...I wonder why no one else has picked up ont that?

[BillZBubb]

Who cares what Bloomberg says? He's the guy who let the police run roughshod on the rights of protesters while he kissed Bush's ass at the 2004 convention. Bloomberg is disgusting.

[kellygrrrl]

looking forward to a human in the White House

[ErnestineBass]

ROFLMAO!!!

As opposed to a version two steps down the evolutionary scale...?

[RThM]

No. It's three steps down. Grandpa was a senator.

[DoninJoisey]

Yup. Bush and Cheney are proof positive that "intelligent design" is bogus.

[ErnestineBass]

Yep. And Ernestine is proof positive that not all southerners are inbred idjits, DoninJoisey...capice? We need to bridge this north/south gap if we're going to save OUR country. XOXO, EB

[OnePartyEqualsTyranny]

Exactly ID had nothing to with HRC, look what she has done. Designed no intelligence unless you count Republican intelligence.

[Dan1967]

NEW POLL IN MICHIGAN: BARACK OBAMA IS THE BETTER CANDIDATE AGAINST MCCAIN.

Barack Obama leads McCain in Michigan 43 to 41% with 8% undecided, but Hillary is losing to McCain in Michigan 46 to 37%. Barack Obama is clearly the Democrats strongest candidate against McCain in the general election. I copied and pasted the poll below, and the Link is here:
http://www.mlive.com/elections/index.ssf/2008/04/obama_does_better_against_mcca.html

Monday April 14, 2008
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A new poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama doing better against Republican John McCain among Michigan voters than Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The poll by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA shows 43 percent of the 600 likely voters polled back Obama, while 41 percent back McCain. Eight percent say they'd vote for independent candidate Ralph Nader, while 8 percent are undecided.

McCain leads Clinton 46 percent to 37 percent. Ten percent say they'd vote for Nader and 7 percent are undecided.

Fifty-nine percent have a favorable opinion of McCain, while 55 percent feel that way about Obama and 45 percent about Clinton.

The poll was conducted April 3-8. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

[hopelessobama]

you forgot that barack is LOSING new york to mccain. new york, as in huge democrat stronghold that will lose obama the election if he failing numbers stay this way.