I would like to see the next President be a person who can "unite the country" is also a "competent manager" and can work not only "across party lines" but Internationally, in a non-partison and diplomatic way, to get things done. So what else is new, who wouldn't?
Zobgy makes the argument that Bloomberg could be such a "leader" that his polls show 80% of Americans want. In some ways I wish it were true, I wouldn't mind voting for an independent and sending both parties a little message to clean up their act. But I doubt that it is true because the American people themselves are so sharply divided. And, the election process is not the place from which unity naturally flows because the whole process is focused on the negative...what's wrong with the other guy.
Nothing I'm aware of from Bloomberg gives me the slightest comfort that he's thought about how he would "unite" or "lead" or even what his priorities would be for getting things done. Even if he eventually did that reasonably well, the man is just not that inspiring. I was inspired by the likes of Kennedy, Regan, Patrick Moynihan, Howard Baker, Bill Bradley, Bob Dole, Sam Nunn, Colin Powell and a few others but Bloomberg is just not in their league and I don't want to settle for less (I've done that for the past 20 years).
The most interesting thing that Zobgy points out about Bloomberg's potential entry into the Presidential race is that it might be more likely to divide the left in the same way that Perot divided the right in 1992. That could make room for a more inspiring and gifted figure from the center-right. It isn't obvious to me right now who that is. It would be ironic if that turned out to be Guiliani, one NYC major paving the way for another. One can only hope.
Zobgy makes the argument that Bloomberg could be such a "leader" that his polls show 80% of Americans want. In some ways I wish it were true, I wouldn't mind voting for an independent and sending both parties a little message to clean up their act. But I doubt that it is true because the American people themselves are so sharply divided. And, the election process is not the place from which unity naturally flows because the whole process is focused on the negative...what's wrong with the other guy.
Nothing I'm aware of from Bloomberg gives me the slightest comfort that he's thought about how he would "unite" or "lead" or even what his priorities would be for getting things done. Even if he eventually did that reasonably well, the man is just not that inspiring. I was inspired by the likes of Kennedy, Regan, Patrick Moynihan, Howard Baker, Bill Bradley, Bob Dole, Sam Nunn, Colin Powell and a few others but Bloomberg is just not in their league and I don't want to settle for less (I've done that for the past 20 years).
The most interesting thing that Zobgy points out about Bloomberg's potential entry into the Presidential race is that it might be more likely to divide the left in the same way that Perot divided the right in 1992. That could make room for a more inspiring and gifted figure from the center-right. It isn't obvious to me right now who that is. It would be ironic if that turned out to be Guiliani, one NYC major paving the way for another. One can only hope.
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