Stop and frisk
ADA taxi cab issues
Cutting Medicaid and Medicare
Sexist and racist statements
Refusal to take voter questions at CNN townhall
Increased homelessness
China
Failure on minority/women businesses

Question him on policy. Because his policy has been terrible in many areas.

treatment of Occupy Wall Street at Zucotti Park

treatment of Bush era protestors.

Let him buy the nomination and we're going to see record low Dem turnout and record high 3rd party voting come November.

I have to believe we're better than that.

Hilarious desperation and rationalization. All of your posts have been hilarious recently. You used to be so much better than this. But that is the Bernie Sanders impact. His supporters lose sight of the real world

It's not me that's feeling desperate. The 'myth of the moderate middle' and its various assumptions about "swing voters" and "independents" (none of which is supported by actual data) has people willing to overlook racism, misogyny and bribery. But when you lessen the contrast between Trump and his opponent, the disenchanted and jaded will become more so.

Various pundits and voters (with their anecdotal 'evidence') are still subscribing to outdated "conventional wisdom," like the people who think the electorate today is no different than it was in 1972. Swing voters and independents are not who people think they are. They don't constitute this mass of ideologically-similar, astute moderates patiently waiting to see which party will put up the most centrist candidate. That's the crux of the narrative many subscribe to, but - again - it's not supported by data (in fact, quite the opposite). Just as there's no evidence of mischievous crossover voting or voter fraud ever having an impact.

for which NYC eventually paid out over $ 1 million dollars in settlements.

Being Vice President isn't helping to run the biggest organization in the US?

He also has judiciary, Foreign policy and Senatorial experience. Bloomberg can’t come close to this. Bloomberg is a small man, with a big head.

The position has no consequential responsibility.

Did a lot. So did Biden.

The only constitutional duties of a VP are to preside over the Senate and break ties if necessary, and to take over if the president dies or becomes incapacitated. But as a practical matter vice presidents since WWII have worked very closely with presidents in running the country. They know how to do it.

Certainly had consequential responsibilities.

If you meant to say that there are no responsibilities inherent in the office, I'd mostly agree with you, but experience shows that their real-world responsibilities are often quite consequential.

However I think it would be effective head to head with Trump because he is just a lot more successful than Trump who is a buffoon trust fund baby.

This is one thing that pisses me off.

These rich assholes thinks their financial success somehow means they can run a government.

Bloomberg, you're not going to be a CEO who can change the rules when it suits you.

I was about ready to put Bloomberg over Bernie (and I'm not a fan of either guy), but if I had to choose right now between the two, Bernie would get my vote.

His first two terms were considered quite successful. Third term was meh.

That is a positive for him. I hate it when candidates think their financial success somehow translates to running a government.

That is a rarity for this past century in US government.

Two Wells Fargo CEOs lost their heads when Elizabeth took them on. Go Liz!

Well, that's a comfort.

But he's not uniquely qualified, as he seems to be claiming.

an authoritarian role, to being president of a democratic state, representing democracy across the world. Many felt he did not lead NYC in accordance with democratic values and ideals. The number of people whose lives he affected not the point, although there again there is no comparison. Corporations are a different structure than a democratic nation. Could be the problem with leaders from a business model. That was the experience he cited.

I really don't know much about him or what he did as NY mayor; I am getting mixed reviews. I agree that the business model is not an especially good one for running a country, and I get pretty annoyed with people who think managing a business and managing a government are the same. There will be some overlapping skills, obviously, but a good business manager will not necessarily be a good president. Bloomberg, though, might at least be competent at day-to-day operations; Trump can't even do that. I hope we can do better than either Bloomberg or Sanders.

I would have found him, however, more insightful about the role of the U,S, president had he cited his mayoral experience and not his role as CEO of a corporation! However, given mixed reviews, he steps in hot water if he says I ran a large city, representative of America in its diversity and complexity blah blah.

Whoops. Invites that criticism.

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if he does not keep it in check. Disdainful contempt is what Democrats want to see against trump, but not now from a johnny-come-lately who has not won a single delegate.

Dominating short sound bites. I don't know if Bloomberg will accomplish that. I'm not sure what his style will be.

If he can accomplish a ton with a few words, he's well on his way. His commercials excel along those lines.

The longwinded policy crap doesn't work

I don’t even know what this election is about anymore.

Truly Bizarro World.

his cheating with the Russians won't make him win.

If we don't do this, the rule of law will be gone and our Democracy will be destroyed.

This election is about nothing else.

The Democrats have always been about working class. That’s why the support of the unions and minimum wage raises are there. What does it say about society when both parties are headed by billionaires? What does it say about our party? America is not a company to run. It is an idea to achieve. Right now, so many people out there work hard to have nothing. A 100k a year household is a few lost paychecks from ruin. A billionaire will not help this economic disparity. But a Democrat will.

I'm a little bit torn. I want Joe to win but - assuming Klobuchar can't connect with POCs - I think this guy is my second choice. We must defeat the fake president at all costs.

I want to see him debate. And I want to know what sort of people he would appoint to SCOTUS.

Can't take the republican out of Bloomberg

It's not "Republican" to acknowledge that the United States is an organization ... the wealthiest and most powerful organization on Earth. We are "organized" as a republic. I see no problem with that.



-Laelth

P.S. Even a Republican Mayor of New York is likely to be more liberal than most of the Democrats I know in the part of the country in which I live.

-Laelth

Looking forward to it.

I have watched six of the eight debates that we have had so far. I have have experienced unprecedented "warm fuzzies" after watching each of them because our bench is so deep this year and because liberal policy is now, more or less, mainstream in the Democratic Party. I am proud of my party for the first time in a long time.

But I have this sneaking suspicion that Bloomberg is going to waste our (other) candidates on stage. The OP explains how. I think his attacks will be effective, for better or for worse.

-Laelth

"His job was not to manage but to do some things the president needed done"