Bloomberg talking smack about Obama

In what could be a future attack line if he runs for president as an independent, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a friend that Barack Obama is not experienced enough to be president:

A reader who ran into Mike Bloomberg at Primavera on the Upper East Side last night is the second source to reporthearing Bloomberg describe the Illinois senator as too inexperienced tobe president.

Bloomberg, according to my spy, said he had met Obama for the firsttime about a year and a half ago, in the Senate subway, and was struckby Obama's eloquence.

But "he simply is not experienced enough to become president,"Bloomberg, I'm told, said. That's in part, at least, because "senatorshave absolutely no idea what executive decision making is all about" —a familiar Bloomberg theme and one that would disqualify a number ofcandidates.

Another source also recalls Bloomberg saying, several weeks earlier, that Obama doesn't have the experience for the job.

Under that same logic, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, John Edwards, Ron Paul, Chris Dodd, Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich, Tom Tancredo, and Joe Biden are also unqualified to be president.  Oh, and don't forget John F. Kennedy too.  He was in the Senate before being elected.

On the other side of the coin, George W. Bush was Governor in Texas.  That qualifies as an executive.  Yeah, that experience sure paid off, didn't it?

Comments

[granny]

Looks like Bloomberg's biggest concern regarding an opponent is Obama,then. That would be my read.

[Chief Editor: Todd]

Exactly! Some of the same candidates that would vote for Bloomberg would also vote for Obama. Both candidates are anti-Washington establishment, pro-change and fed up with the current foreign policy. Bloomberg knows that he would have a hard time running for president if Obama was the nominee. No, actually, what would happen is the Republican would win if both Bloomberg and Obama were in the race. Bloomberg might be hoping for Clinton to get the nomination....then he would have a real chance.