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Michael Bloomberg is seeking to change New York City law to allow him to serve a third term, citing the financial crisis. When Rudy Giuliani tried to do this in the wake of 9/11, he was attacked as a fascist, and this was used against him in his presidential campaign to paint him as somebody who saw himself as dictator and had an extreme view of executive power. Somehow, when a liberal media darling like Bloomberg tries it, I don’t think he’ll get the same reaction. Keep in mind, too, when Giuliani tried it was just a months before the end of his term, unlike the more than a year that Bloomberg still has, and Rudy was seeking to extend his term for an extra few months rather than run for yet another four years.
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louis vuitton | 4.26.10 @ 9:59PM
who saw himself as dictator and had an extreme view of executive power. Somehow is "world view"? Are conservatives seriously going to argue that she knows what she's talking about?
Meanwhile, some other canada goose conservatives seem to be contented that her hawkish answers suggest that her heart is in the right place. But that's the same assumption conservatives made about President Bush, and look how that turned out.