http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070515-123142-3314r.htm

The presidential race just got more interesting. NYC major Michael Bloomberg decided to spend 1 billion of his 5.5 billion fortune to enter the race for presidency....

He is a social liberal and fiscal conservative...

I don't know him well enough to form an oppinion... but such a person must exist and they'd be SO good for my country.

Can it be? Is it true? Has my hero finally come?

~String

The presidential race just got more interesting. NYC major Michael Bloomberg decided to spend 1 billion of his 5.5 billion fortune to enter the race for presidency....

He is a social liberal and fiscal conservative...

Now I just have to ask ....how could anyone be called a "social liberal" and have 5.5 billion dollars of personal fortune? How is that even remotely possible?

Baron Max

Wouldn't it mean that he doesn't give a shit what people do with their lives and is pro choice, gay marriage and all the bells and whistles... but doesn't want to spend a dime on paying for mothers to live in government housing while collecting a welfare check for her 18 babies?

Just a thought.

~String

What I am surprised is that it hasn't happened sooner (rich guy funding himself). Well, since 1992...

Although if not for altruistic reasons, if i were a billionaire, I wouldn't want to be president, not with this mess coming...

...if i were a billionaire, I wouldn't want to be president, not with this mess coming...

HEY, we agree! I'd build a couple colleges and universities (and NO, none named after me) here in Cleveland and on Tenerife (Spain). Spend some serious cash on my home town and build a new highschool, jr. high, and elementary shool, rec center. Buy a nice pad in NYC, one in Tenerife, and one in Cleveland. Fund a top notch, big budged production of the Dune Chronicles... to be totally supervised by yours truly and the Counte. Hmmm... that's intersting. I don't engage in many senarios on "If I were a rich man..." didle deedle deedle diga diga deedle didle dum...

~String

I can even make a catch 22 out of it! here it goes:

Anybody who seriously wants to be the president should be automatically disqualified on grounds of insanity...

Now let's say Bloomberg really tries but don't get elected. Which party should be more affraid of him? (screwing it up for them)

Bloomberg is a flaming liberal. The only reason he ran as a Republican was because he had no hope of winning the Dem nomination.

I wonder how this would work with his history of repeatedly claiming he wouldn't be running. Practically every New Yorker has heard him say, on more than one occasion, that he'll fulfill his mayoral term till the end of 2009 and then move on to be a full time philanthropist.

Not that I'd mind to be honest, I think he'd bring something interesting to watch during the 08 race.

Well, in this 1.2 party system he had to choose one party to run, even if he didn't represent their "values". Kind of ironic and funny....