Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumMichael Bloomberg Appeared To Blame Obama For Racial Division In 2016
Though Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has been playing up his relationship with Barack Obama in his recent campaign ads, the billionaire once blamed the former president for letting racial division thrive.
During a November 2016 speaking event at Oxford University in England, the former New York City mayor suggested that Obama had failed to address issues of racial segregation:
"I would argue that today we are more segregated, in America certainly, than we were, in terms of race, than we were a dozen years ago, and yet were just finishing up eight years with our first Black president. Why are we more separated than we were before? is the question youve got to ask yourself. Why during the Obama administration didnt we pull together? Ask the president. Thats his job really to pull people together."
Those critical comments from 2016 throw a bit of a wrench in the image of his and Obamas relationship that Bloombergs campaign has tried to push. A Bloomberg ad that began circulating Feb. 5 centers entirely on past supportive comments Obama has made about the candidate, including one praising him for bringing people together.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-bloomberg-obama-racial-division_n_5e47289ec5b64433c6167a1d
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Skya Rhen
(2,701 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Callado119
(171 posts)...the Bloomberg attacks are just getting desperate now..
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Skya Rhen
(2,701 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Me.
(35,454 posts)Another 'blame the black man' from a rich white one
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)So it's all good.
The simply truth of the matter is that if Barack Obama had never been President and opted for a different career path that resulted in him living in NYC during Bloomberg's twelve-year reign as mayor, he would have in all likelihood been stopped and frisked at some point by Bloomy's racist police department.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
lunasun
(21,646 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)It seems that every day something else like this come out about him. HuffPost has had at least three negative articles about him in just the past 24 hours. I wonder what the Republicans have in their dossier on him.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I might watch more, but it wasn't a huge point of the whole discussion.
I'm not voting for him, but these hit pieces by the likes of HuffPo, the Hill etc need to be looked at with a skeptical view.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden