When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg looks at himself in the mirror, what do you suppose he sees? A hard-nosed, no-nonsense businessman? A non-partisan political operator? Perhaps a nuts-and-bolts manager? Kingmaker, spoiler, billionaire? The next president of the United States? It's a perplexing picture [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Illegal guns?
You want a War on Guns?
Look at the War on Poverty. Then there’s the War on Drugs
Ralph Nader a megalomaniac? Is that what you call someone who can’t be bought? Who tells the truth no matter how unpopoular or unpleasant? Wake up. Everything the man says is true. Just look how great the dems are doing now that they have congress back. He predicted this. Instead of blaming Mr. Nader for this mess we should be listening to him. That we didn’t listen to him all along has been our undoing.
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It seems as if Ms. Washington has exposed herself as nothing but a centrist Dem. When are supposed “progressives” going to stop beating that dead horse about Nader causing Gore to lose in 2000? Maybe she hasn’t heard that the Socialist candidate for Prez in 2000 garnered enough votes to swing it Gore’s way too, or that upon recount, Gore did actually win the vote in Fla. Since she wants to jump on the bandwagon of a centrist (if, in fact he really is that or is just pretending to be for votes) maybe ITT should get a real progressive voice to expound the feelings and political leanings of its readership and let Ms. Washington go somewhere else where her views on having to spend 100 mil to buy a political office (which she doesn’t seem to mind in the least) will have a welcoming audience.
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