Bloomberg for President?



For someone who has said he wouldn't run -- then again, so did Al Gore -- he garners a lot of 2008 Press. Our favorite sopcial chronicler David Patrick Columbia weighs in on the Bloomberg-for-President question that has everyone on the Chattering Classes in New York wondering:

"There has been increasing speculation that Mr. Bloomberg may run for President in 2008 as an Independent candidate. I wrote in these pages quite some time ago that I believed he would run, simply because he told a mutual friend of his and mine a number of years ago (in the mid-90s) that he wanted to be President. This 'revelation' came when he was asked what he planned to do with himself since he’d built his company, made his billions and still had some youth on his side.

"When our friend repeated the conversation, shortly after it took place, it struck me as typical, for a man who had realized great ambition. He’s certainly not the first person I’ve heard express that (what I thought of as a) fantasy."

(NySocialDiary)