Pardon My Politics

Michael Bloomberg bought New York City again yes­ter­day. New York City had just be­come ir­re­place­able to the bil­lion­aire turned faux politi­cian. Nev­er mind that he had open­ly crit­i­cized Rudy Giu­liani for want­ing to stay on an ex­tra three months. When you are deal­ing with an ego the size of Bloomberg’s, your mem­o­ry is se­lec­tive and short. What Mike Bloomberg did yes­ter­day was say that he alone was more im­por­tant than the peo­ple he claims to want to serve.

When discussing his criteria for a Supreme Court Justice less than a month ago, President Obama said “I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” Evidently that is not a quality he requires of himself.

I haven’t lived in rural Pennsylvania or in rural Indiana, but I have lived in rural upstate New York, in towns where there are so few Democrats that on some local election ballots, not a single position, from town council to justice of the peace, has a contest. As in China, your option is to [...]