Rumors have been flying around Washington, DC about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s interest in joining the Obama administration. And vice versa.
“RINO Bloomberg to become Secretary of the Treasury” is the one most often heard. And former Senator Bob Kerrey even floated the idea that Obama should be the “idea guy” and Bloomberg should be, in effect, the nation’s COO.
Well, this ABC News report should put an end to those stories:
… during President Obama’s vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, on August 27 he took in a round of golf at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, playing golf with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Democratic lawyer, business man and éminence grise Vernon Jordan; and White House trip director (and former golf pro) Marvin Nicholson.
The pool report at the time said that “We are told Bloomberg and Obama talked in the clubhouse for about 15 mins about the economy. They then went to the driving range.”
Apparently – at least from a second-hand report – the Obama-Bloomberg convo could have gone better.
In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch says ”Bloomberg said it was a pleasant day. In conversation he put a few ideas … He said it was like verbal ping pong.”
Bloomberg, according to Murdoch, “came back and said ‘I never met in my life such an arrogant man’.”A spokesman for Bloomberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Of course, the left will say the evil Rupert Murdoch made up the quote to damage Obama. The right will say every word of it is true. And Bloomberg will say whatever will advance his political career.
And we say Bloomberg and Obama deserve each other.
Source: ABC News
