Hurricane Sandy blows Bloomberg into Obama’s camp
Hurricane Sandy and climate change have blown New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a fence-straddling independent, into President Barack Obama’s camp. From his just-published op-ed:
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief.
The floods and fires that swept through our city left a path of destruction that will require years of recovery and rebuilding work. And in the short term, our subway system remains partially shut down, and many city residents and businesses still have no power. In just 14 months, two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate neighborhoods — something our city government had never done before. If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable.
Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be — given this week’s devastation — should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Bloomberg says he might have voted for the Mitt Romney of earlier years:
I believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the Oval Office. He understands that America was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. In the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. But he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the health-care model he signed into law in Massachusetts.
If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him because, like so many other independents, I have found the past four years to be, in a word, disappointing.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Uncle Billy
November 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Gid is clearly a Democrat.
Hiram
November 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
td/cc
Looks like you have on your Ruby slippers…
Uncle Billy
November 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
And a Socialist!!!!!
Cherokee
November 1st, 2012
7:31 pm
just me and Debbie are correct. I proudly cast my first vote for President for Ronald Reagan. But today’s extremist Republicans, who say things like:
Obama’s involvement in “Fast and Furious”, Benghazi, the Russian “Secret Deal” and the Iranian connection attempt. I wouldn’t count on it, though, because communists are very committed and they rarely confess.
must be defeated. And they will be. Had Romney consistently expressed his moderatley conservative views, he’d likely win next Tuesday. Instead he chose to kowtow to the whacakdoodles; as a result, he’ll lose.
double
November 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Poor cc delirious.The weekend apple fest.traffic got to him.
Jimmies
November 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
This is like Stalin endorsing Hitler. World would be better off without both of these dictatorials jerkseeds
cc
November 1st, 2012
8:04 pm
double and hiram:
Get ready! It’s coming! Relax . . . enjoy the ride because you have no choice.
All together now, let’s hear you say, “Prseident Romney”!
Kris
November 1st, 2012
8:05 pm
My Etch A Sketch and Magic Eight ball SAY’s.
That President Barrack OBAMA Will hand mittens his candy (The rock WWE) a$$ on a sliver platter along with his implanted silver spoon,put his pet Rhinnie (Moe) a pet carrier on top of his VW.
Place people before profits.
Get and KEEP JOBS IN America….
Re-Elect a real Leader
President OBAMA
Age gap match
November 1st, 2012
8:16 pm
Life is lonely. Life is short.It is very common that many Young Women are attracted to 40 Plus Older Men; coz Older Men are usually more Stable and Mature. If you want to make your life more adventurous, I would encourage you to take a try on AgeGapMatch.com .This Is Where Things Start To Get Better. where you can meet plenty of classy, intelligent, and adventurous girls who like 40 Plus Older Mature Men. Date a Younger Woman and feel Young again. It’s worthy a try.
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve
November 1st, 2012
8:16 pm
@cc
November 1st, 2012
7:02 pm
It’s all over.
I’ve said it before, and I say it again here and now: You can count on the fact that Obama will LOSE the election. President Romney will be inaugurated in January, 2013.
Learn it, believe it and love it. The truth shall set you free!
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President Romney will be inaugurated in January, 2013????
NOW YOU ARE A COMEDIAN.
heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Jay Gordon Coogler
November 1st, 2012
8:42 pm
I’m voting for the American.
Derek
November 1st, 2012
8:42 pm
The GOP is no longer the GOP. They are now the POG (Party of God). That is why I, as a lifelong Republican, am now an independent! I will not a party that’s main goal is to force their religious views on others! The parade of losers coming out of that party since George Bush Sr. is shocking. What a bunch of losers my ex party has become.
Buckhead Boy
November 1st, 2012
8:46 pm
cc, you ought to take your certitude to Intrade and help out those who have believed like you that Mr. Romney will win. Poor people, they have been trying to dump their shares today from $3.13 to $3.44, and there are just not any buyers. Tonight, it looks like they’ve pulled the big “sells” in frustration, and the market is locking-up for good. cc, they need you; the market needs you — and you can triple your investment in a mere six days. Moreover, with Intrade you can boast of an offshore account just like your champion.
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve
November 1st, 2012
8:46 pm
@Age gap match
November 1st, 2012
8:16 pm
Life is lonely. Life is short.It is very common that many Young Women are attracted to 40 Plus Older Men; coz Older Men are usually more Stable and Mature. If you want to make your life more adventurous, I would encourage you to take a try on AgeGapMatch.com .This Is Where Things Start To Get Better. where you can meet plenty of classy, intelligent, and adventurous girls who like 40 Plus Older Mature Men. Date a Younger Woman and feel Young again. It’s worthy a try.
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IS THIS A BLOG for men to get dates?
Men looking for “classy, intelligent, and adventurous girls who like 40 Plus
Older Mature Men. Date a Younger Woman and feel Young again.
It’s worthy a try.”
Is this acceptable on this blog?
td
November 1st, 2012
8:49 pm
I have already voted with the majority of this state and the majority of the nation. Thank God we are about to get a man that can lead this nation out of the wilderness and back to the promise land. Our next President Mitt Romney.
Greg Camp
November 1st, 2012
8:52 pm
Bloomberg and Christie recognize true leadership, not sound bites. Rhomney is blowing hot air and will say anything to get elected. Rhomney and Ryan are puppets of big buisiness and the religious right. As to Fayes response, Sandy hitting the Outer Banks of NC would effect both Tidewater, Virginia , Richmond, and Washington DC. There was an article in the Washington Post today as to a simular scenario, with Sandy making landfall in Virginia Beach. The Outer Banks were hit hard by the storm and NC 12, replaced after Irene, was destroyed again. However, I do agree that the barrier islands should NOT be populated. These islands are a natural storm break and development undermines their natural function. Wetlands decline attributed to the devistation wrought by hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast. These barrier islands are habitats for waterfowl, fish, and crustations. I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and would hate to see these habitats destroyed
svanbeck@profilingsolutions.com
November 1st, 2012
8:55 pm
The parable of Sodom and Gamorrah (sp, i’m tirred) – the Christians teach the reason God punished the townspeople was b/c of their sinning ways of self pleasure. The Jews teach the reason God punished the townspeople was b/c they turned their backs on strangers in need.
Romney and the GOP want to cut FEMA b/c the national government helping the helpless is immoral.
Fine state of Christian charity.
Christie may be kissing the ring of the $$, but that’s his elected job and sworn duty – save his people and save his state. You fine GOP christians would rather him turn the money and assistance down? Turn his back on strangers in need?
Buymadeinusjobs
November 1st, 2012
8:58 pm
American crossroads/karl Rove discloses but crossroads GPS/Karl Rove[intermingle???] and U. S. Dept. of Commerce are organizations who do not have to disclose who donates to them and they do not.
Some people say 12 billionaires, could be multi-national corporation donations.
How do we know they do not get foreign donations since they do not disclose.
75% of money is being used against democrats to tell lies/half-truths. Check their records on c span for yourself.
A vote for any republican is a vote against your pocketbook, check Ryan Budget 2011 which all Reoublican senators and house of repre. members voted for and Rommey said he would sign.
on c-span,, See votes, budget, votes, bills, hearings, Rommey 47% victims, 41% of Georgians fit this group. Write in mayor, veteran, someone you all can agree on,
Shake up Republican do nothing congress with 12% approval rating.
Read Standard and Poor report on downgrade, google speeches by Bachman, Kingston, Broun, West, Ryan, Cantor, see who was responsible.
Hiram
November 1st, 2012
9:09 pm
cc/td, the sock puppet, after a couple Romney chants as cc, has now morphed into td for a couple of more Romney endorsements. I wonder how many ballots he will cast in the election?
yuzeyurbrane
November 1st, 2012
9:15 pm
Mitt has surpassed his dad in everything except daddy’s quest for Presidency. Just another life trophy for Mitt.
Kris
November 1st, 2012
9:30 pm
Chris Christie, showed he does have potential to be a leader…Who knows I might take walk on the wild side if Christie runs in 2016……
I cannot wait for Ronmesia and his pet rhinnie (Moe) to flip flop on this statement.
“”Romney is the one who said it was “immoral” of the federal government to provide disaster relief.””
I will have a Bloomberg,,large Coke and fries…
Re-Elect President OBAMA
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve
November 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
@td
November 1st, 2012
8:49 pm
I have already voted with the majority of this state and the majority of the nation. Thank God we are about to get a man that can lead this nation out of the wilderness and back to the promise land. Our next President Mitt Romney.
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“Mitt Romney a man that can lead this nation out of the wilderness?”
No prophecy was ever produced by the will of man
and
No prophecy WILL NEVER BE produced by the will of man.
Especially by you.
Mitt Romney’s lying lips are an abomination to the LORD.
Mitt romney is a true hypocrite who pretends to be something he is
not, and really has no intention of becoming.
td
November 1st, 2012
10:07 pm
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve
November 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Mitt is not the candidate that is leading a party that went to its convention and endorsed abortion until birth, sodomy, and denied God three times in front of the entire nation.
No it is the democratic party that is the abomination of the country.
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve (Mitt Romney has reversed on everything)
November 1st, 2012
10:16 pm
@Jay Gordon Coogler
November 1st, 2012
8:42 pm
I’m voting for the American.
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You are voting for the American?
Is Coogler American?
Many names like Coogler originate from religious texts such as
the Quran, the Bhagavadgītā.
hmmmmmmmmm
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve (Mitt Romney has reversed on everything)
November 1st, 2012
10:20 pm
@td
November 1st, 2012
10:07 pm
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve
November 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
Mitt is not the candidate that is leading a party that went to its convention and endorsed abortion until birth, sodomy, and denied God three times in front of the entire nation.
No it is the democratic party that is the abomination of the country.
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YOU LIARS all STICK TOGETHER DON’T YOU?
You and Mitt Romney ARE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS.
DEFINITION:
PEOPLE who lie to the point of it being considered
a disease or condition, an abnormally habitual liar.
hamiltonAZ
November 1st, 2012
10:25 pm
Climate, Women’s choice, energy independence. Add these to Krugman’s take: “If President Obama is re-elected, health care coverage will expand dramatically, taxes on the wealthy will go up and Wall Street will face tougher regulation. If Mitt Romney wins instead, health coverage will shrink substantially, taxes on the wealthy will fall to levels not seen in 80 years and financial regulation will be rolled back.”
Then, choose.
ttiM yenmoR sah desrever no gnihtyreve (Mitt Romney has reversed on everything)
November 1st, 2012
10:30 pm
What Obama did was he brought big government to THE
RECUE.
If Sandy had hit Georgia every CON would be screaming like
a girl for THE GOVERNMENT to come in and RESCUE
THEM.
ONE DAY CONS MIGHT GET THEIR CHANCE TO CALL
ON BIG GUBMENT.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
November 1st, 2012
10:42 pm
Spending his life “lying for the Lord,” as his “formerly” racist sex cult’s bizarre theology requires when speaking with “outsiders” (i.e. normal, healthy Americans), Romney has no “self” to be, hence hasn’t the ability to be “himself.” He is a Mammon-worshipping, satanic zombie…nothing more.
America is being sifted…G-d is watching each of us.
mehlman rings twice
November 1st, 2012
11:42 pm
1. Newt Gingrich as Secretary of State
2. Herman Cain as Commerce Secretary
3. Mark Sanford as Transportation Secretary
4. Rick Santorum as Ambassador to the Vatican
5. John Ensign as Treasury Secretary
6. Todd Aiken as Secretary of Health and Human Services
7. Rudy Guliani as FBI Director
That’s enough for me to vote for Obama.
mehlman rings twice
November 1st, 2012
11:49 pm
One thing for sure is that Romney won’t need a teleprompter to give a speech. All he will have to do is hold up his finger and see which way the wind is blowing and the words will follow.
cc
November 2nd, 2012
5:50 am
Only four days left before the end of the leftists’ dreams!
I can hardly wait!
It will be President-Elect Romney after Tuesday, and President Romney in January, 2013.
Weetamoe
November 2nd, 2012
6:20 am
People are eating out of dumpsters in Staten Island. Thugs are looting homes and businesses. Bloomberg has ordered a couple of dozen of The Royal Flush portapotties installed along the marathon route by Sunday morning and has given advice to NY marathon runners that they will make better time if they attend to their *business* before the run.So what we have here is merely one of the 1% endorsing the guy who will soon be another one of the 1%.
Buckhead Boy
November 2nd, 2012
6:23 am
mehlman, lest you forget: There will most likely also be a nod to Paul “The Vulture” Singer, Donald Trump, one or more Koch, John Bolten and Dan Senior, a Sununu, Phyllis Schlafly, Ralph Reed, and many of the unsavory Republican office holders who lose their elections, like say Reps. Joe Walsh and Allen West. And, as a two-faced President will require two brains, there will be Karl Rove and Grover Norquist. Not to mention that the Bradley and Heritage Foundations, etc. will disgorge their junk scientists and freak economists into every agency of government.
Edmund Ruffin
November 2nd, 2012
7:15 am
Bloomberg is not a “fence straddling independent.” Where have you been, Bloomberg is a flat out northeastern liberal.
Dcb
November 2nd, 2012
7:15 am
As others above I fail to see the connect in this article between Sandy and Bloomberg’s presidential vote. But if reading between the lines one concludes that it is because of all the media attention to the NYC area that the president has brought these last few days, and the publicly hyped promises for help that Obama has pledged, my skeptism says “let’s wait and see what’s delivered – not what’s promised to a swing state a week before the elections.”
Buymadeinusjobs
November 2nd, 2012
8:32 am
A vote for any Republican anywhere in any state is a vote for the do nothing Tea Party since all Republicans in Washington vote in lockstep with Tea Party Bachman, Atkins, Broun,Ryan, West, King, Wilson, Walsh, and Senate Filibuster Mcconnell.
You can go to c span to check bills, budgets, Rommey’s video, 5/14/12, 47% who do not pay taxes consider themselves victims and entitled to food stamps, school lunches and healthcare fromgovernment.
26% of 47% were white guys who are unemployed/earn low salaries as well as veterans, seniors, disabled etc. 41% of Georgians fit this 47% and if you do not today, you could tommorrow if you have a heart attack or lose your job.
Rommey pays less than 14% capital gains tax on millions on carried interest he earns on investments in billions in China and Cayman Islands.
Rommey/his wealthy buddies take the Republican tax cuts but do not create jobs In USA.
Why do you think wealthy are giving millions in undisclosed/disclosed donations to groups/super pacs like Crossroads GPS/Rove, U. s. Chamber of Commerce[undiscloed;;American Crossroads /rove, American Prosperity/koch bros, Freedom Works, reed , Norquist and 600 + more.
75% of money is being bent to tell lies/half-truths against democrats, check records yourself.
Why is wealthy trying to buy your votes for Republicans, they like tax cuts and so much more.
All Republicans in Senate and House voted for Ryan Budget 2011 and Rommey said he would sign it. It would be law today. Check c-span for yourself. The budget turned medicare into voucher which would cost seniors about 6,000 more, cut 17 billion from veterans programs when thier numbers have increased from Iraq/Afgan war, there are backlogs at veterans administration because they did not increase budget to take care of veterans they sent to war. Cut 35% from medicaid which covers nursing home care for seniors/disabled, just when senior population is increasing. Medicaid also pays for healthcare for children of unemployed/low paid workers.[Wealthy/Rommey destroyed good paying manufacturing jobs by hiring workers overseas/china for $1.00 an hour/no health insurance.]. The budget cut food programs, education, research. but gave about 4.8/5 trillion in tax cuts for wealthy.
you can google but best source is c span because you can check their votes, billls, Repub senate blocked jobs bill for veterans, a bill which took tax-break from corp. who move job overseas and give to companies who hire here. There were 260 filibusters by Senator tea party filibuster Mcconnell and his republicans voting in lockstep.
TiredOfIt
November 2nd, 2012
8:32 am
King Willard and Queen Ann; who knew the GOP was into monarchies.
An American disaster in the making.
resno2
November 2nd, 2012
8:47 am
Since obama never really stopped campaigning from the time he took office in 2009; if he does win, do we even know if he can lead?
Whirled Peas
November 2nd, 2012
9:26 am
Neither Galloway nor the rest of the liberal press will talk about the Benghazi screw-up and subsequent cover-up, at least not until after the election. Obama lied, people died. The liberal press in the US is an embarrassment.
Bob
November 2nd, 2012
9:30 am
Road, what conservative were you listening to, seeing what is going on will not hurt Romney ? If Global warming was the cause of Sandy, who does Bloomberg blame for the 6 hurricanes that hit the area in the 50’s ? We are now told to expect a Sandy every year because of global warming. Al gore told us that Katrina was the new norm. Do these people care about how often they are wrong ?
Shar
November 2nd, 2012
9:35 am
@Whirled, Bush/Cheney lied and told the world that there were WMDs in Iraq when they knew that there were not, and thousands upon thousands of people have died and continue to die. The Benghazi situation is such a cypher compared to the Bush/Cheney national disgrace, and your harping on such a minor and unsubstantiated issue only serves to bring the far larger lie and its consequences back to mind. You do your side a disservice both in pointing your outraged finger at this trumped-up issue and in recalling the far bigger, more documented and more egregious lie of the last Republican president.
honested
November 2nd, 2012
12:35 pm
whirled,
If you paid attention to anything other than wrong-wing-rant-media, you would see just how silly your position is.
I’m just glad that Mayor Bloomberg could see to do the right thing, even if it did take a massive, climate induced catastrophe to bring him to the table!
honested
November 2nd, 2012
12:37 pm
bob,
If they were wrong that might be worth considering, but they clearly are not.
All of the predicted consequences of unchecked increases of atmospheric CO2 are coming to pass as the levels continue to increase.
Is it that important for you to drive a 7mpg vehicle to go to the beer store?
Frankie
November 2nd, 2012
2:38 pm
Bloomberg needs to get the National GUard into NY and get the city under control. Its funny people are comparing the response time to Katrina…..haahaaahha
It took FEMA 4 days just to realize New orleans even existed…