What's up with the hostility for Mike Bloomberg? Do you seriously think he wouldn't be a much better president than Trump?

If he doesn't drop dead, I know Bernie Sanders is the best person to lead the country.  He has lived what he stood for and he is a brilliant activist.

Bloomberg?  What does he stand for?  What has he done?  He is a backpeddling liar.  That is all he is.

In 2001, the legendary Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett wrote of Bloomberg’s “sexual blind spot,” summing up the toxic, obnoxious remarks Bloomberg allegedly made. As mayor, he was known to mock the hair coloring and style choices of the female City Council speaker, as noted in a story in which he was heard saying “look at the ass on her” about another woman. 

All this, and more, will be scrutinized again in the course of a presidential run. 

That said, let’s examine the Bloomberg campaign from a distance, with an eye toward demographics and math. Bloomberg is not popular nationally and would have an incredibly hard time qualifying for TV debates in 2019. And despite Biden’s muddled debate performances and disturbing history—supporting the Iraq War, fighting efforts to desegregate schools through busing, and shilling for the credit-card industry—he retains the strong backing of older African-American voters, thanks to the eight years he spent as Barack Obama’s vice president. He is a consistent poll leader in South Carolina, a state with a black electorate that will ultimately matter more than Iowa because it resembles other Southern states that will vote soon after. Biden averages 35 percent in the Palmetto State, almost 20 points ahead of the rest of the field. 

Warren and Sanders, who have campaigned extensively there, have some hope of cutting into Biden’s lead. Bloomberg doesn’t. As mayor of New York for 12 years, where he notched some serious accomplishments, he was rarely embraced by African-American voters, especially as incidents of police stop-and-frisks skyrocketed dramatically on his watch. Bloomberg, a bullish supporter of a militarized police force bent on harassing people of color, was unrepentant: as recently as last year, he defended his record, claiming “the people, the voters, want low crime.” His approval rating among black voters, unlike that of the oft-derided Mayor Bill de Blasio, was consistently underwater.

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 28, 2019 5:53 PM MST

Stu...you are correct and I know little about him. Please enlighten us? I am too lazy to research. I do know he worked for his wealth and respect.

He banned the purchase of a large soda....NOT government's place. 
He implemented "stop and frisk" and made no apologies for his useage....until he decided to run for President. 

He is ant-gun.
He is pro-choice. 

He own a news outlet. That has been instructed not to investigate Bloomberg. And now not to investigate any Dems but they will continue to investigate Trump.  This is not news....this is an oppo-research firm. 

These are enough for me to rule out voting for him.  And it has NOTHING to do with his Jewish ancestry. 

Thanks Stu.
I agree with you about the stereotyping of rich people.
There is as much variety among the rich is there is among any other group of people. It's nothing but prejudice to assume that all rich people are in some way evil or morally corrupt.

As for the prejudice against a Jew - I seriously hope that that will not prove to be the case.
Yet I recognise that antisemitism does exist in the States, in some places at lethal levels.
I remember one taxi-driver over here (an immigrant from Lebanon) claiming that the 9/11 strikes were a plot by Israel to discredit Islam. I replied, 'that's odd since many of the people working in the World Trade Centre were Jews. Many of them sent money to support Isreal. I know this because they are relatives of friends of my husband - and they are flying to NY for the funerals. Why would Israel attack its own supporters?' He shut up after that. Hopefully, my comments might have helped him think twice. 
One has only to listen on Youtube to Marshal Rosenberg's harrowing experiences as a boy to see how bad it can get.

But maybe things are changing for the better.
Having Obama in power was evidence that race does not necessarily prevent a citizen from becoming POTUS.
And we must hope that Hilary's failure was due to her email indiscretions, not because she was a woman.
Obama and Hilary demonstrate that people from outside the mainstream of power can have a chance in the States.
Let us hope they were not just one-off freaks or exceptions that slipped up through the cracks of social bars.