Discussion: NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio To Announce Presidential Campaign

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I love this movie. Watch it at least once a year.

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Great disc. Have you heard his Bottom Line 1974 yet?

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OK, so what’s the scam here? Is it just too easy to line your pockets with a vanity presidential campaign?

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I don’t recall any NYC Mayor ever attaining another office. Not Senator, not Governor, certainly not President. The very skills and coalitions that might bring success in NYC alienate other voters and hamstring candidate. Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, John Lindsey–

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These people need better advisors.

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Are you saying she turned him? :hushed:

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The man won essentially on the power of one commercial. He really had nothing else. I can’t wait to see what his PR folk come up for this election! It’ll gonna have to be one hell of a sequel!

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Where’s Pat Paulsen when you need him?

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New England and Cali have deep Democratic benches. Let those candidates zerg the White House. That one promising Democrat from each of their respective red and swing states, should be running for SENATE. Mayors should be running for Governor. Unknown go-getters should be running for state and local offices.

The Senate is as important as the Presidency. State legislatures are as important as governorships. All of it is more important than ever, way more vital than any marginal difference between O’Rourke and De Blasio, etc.

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No, it was Nancy Davis who did that.

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No one knows because no one’s ever needed him?

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Yah that’s pretty interesting too, but I think you’re taking DiBlasio a little more seriously than I am. My comment wasn’t more than half serious either, by the way. But I notice that even you don’t find anything all that interesting to mention about what DiBlasio actually stands for. I’d say his politics aren’t bad, at least in theory, but he’s a bungler and a bit too obviously always looking for his main chance. I live in NY and I don’t think even Democrats here are going to get excited about seeing this guy run.

Than again, we don’t tend to like our mayors. Ever. We never don’t complain.

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Too many kooks in the kitchen.

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That’s hard to believe given how seriously I take him!

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