Mike Bloomberg, mayor of New York and head-honcho of the Bloomberg financial news network, is totally going to run for president according to most major media outlets, or totally not running for president, according to Mike Bloomberg.
I personally hope that he does. Northeastern city mayors are my favorite kinds of politicians — no-bullshit dealmakers who tend to get the job done well as long as the city council doesn’t stomp its feet like a grumpy kindergartner. There’s obviously some graft going down at some level in big and mid-sized city governments, but there’s corruption at ALL levels of government; I just appreciate how mayors tacitly acknowledge that a bit of palm-greasing goes on behind closed doors and it’s the price of doing bidness in a bureaucracy. Ideals are nice and fine, but do work, son!
It’s probably naive to think that Bloomberg could bring that cynical pragmatism to the White House, but I’ll keep hoping. In the meantime, you should read Esquire’s profile on the man himself — it’s one of the better profiles I’ve read in there lately. Not as much ass-kissing or dime-store psychoanalysis as I’m used to seeing in there.
If it were totally up to me, my buddy Mumbles would be President:
