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Bloomberg endorses Obama for Prez due to climate change

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  1. SamFisher

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    I figured it deserved its own thread.

    EDIT:

    His own written endorsement:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/a-vote-for-a-president-to-lead-on-climate-change.html

     
  2. mc mark

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    Hope he's not the only one!

    I'm looking at you Florida!
     
  3. dachuda86

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    So Obama can't cash in on the party but he uses it for his own image... simply stunning.
     
  4. brantonli24

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    Lol I thought you meant the media company Bloomberg.
     
  5. El_Conquistador

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    Valerie Jarrett likely strong armed Bloomberg into doing this. The timing is just too coincidental -- right as NY needs federal funds to clean up their disaster and right before the election. This is how Chicago politics is played, folks.


    Cap and trade is a dead issue. Totally dead.
     
  6. mc mark

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    Yeah, I'm thinking no one really strong arms Micheal Bloomberg.

    But nice try though
     
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    AIRBALL!
     
  8. thumbs

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    You're whistling in the dark, mc mark -- but I hope not literally. If Christie is willing to fall on his sword to save his state, you know Bloomer will -- climate support ... really. This is a 1950s storm cycle that has come full circle caused by a cold Pacific and a hot Atlantic Ocean.

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/10/30/bastardi_global_warming_didn_t_cause_sandy

    Bastardi: Global Warming Didn't Cause Sandy

    </HEADER><TIME>October 30, 2012</TIME><META content=2012-10-30T00:00:00-07:00 itemprop="datePublished">
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    <SECTION itemprop="articleBody">RUSH: A story from Boston.com. It’s the Boston Globe. "A storm many environmentalists see as linked to climate change has forced the end of a climate vigil in Boston. " Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Two hundred environmentalist wackos “participated in a round-the-clock vigil since last Tuesday to protest the lack of discussion of climate change in the presidential debate and call on Scott Brown and [Princess] Elizabeth Warren to discuss the issue during their final scheduled debate” today.

    And then the storm hit and the environmentalist wackos dispersed and the climate change convention ended. The only thing missing is Algore. Generally what happens is they'll schedule a global warming conference, Gore will show up, and it'll snow, or a cold front will worm its way through, but Gore wasn't even there. So a hurricane disrupted a climate vigil. By the way, I wasn't gonna do it, but grab sound bites one and two.

    I think it's one and two. Yeah. Joe Bastardi was on Hannity last night. He used to be with AccuWeather; now he's with Weatherbell Analytics. He's chief forecaster. And Joe Bastardi is great. He just knocks all this “Global Warming Equals Hurricanes” theory out of the water, and he's beside himself that this hurricane's being blamed on manmade global warming. Here's the first of two sound bites...

    BASTARDI: My father used to call it “the shortcut storm.” He said he was confident he would see it before his days were numbered, and he's finally seen it, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is, get used to it along the East Coast. Maybe not this kind of track, but we are in a perilous time because the Atlantic's warm; the Pacific's cold. It's the 1950s all over again. It has nothing to do with global warming, it has everything to do with nature, and then we'll go back to where we were in the sixties and seventies.
    RUSH: Hannity said, “So there's a pattern to all this, right? This is not something unusual?”

    BASTARDI: Do you realize we had ten major hurricanes run the Eastern Seaboard between '54 and 1960? Six of them in '54 and '55 -- six hurricane hits -- from North Carolina northward. So, you know, the old Bachman-Turner song, “You ain't seen nothing yet”? If anything, I was too quick on the gun several years ago when I said we were gonna see this type of thing.
     
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  9. RocketMan Tex

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    Thanks, Mr. Weatherman! :rolleyes:

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  10. ROXTXIA

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    NY was gonna get federal funds anyway. Try again, dude.
     
  11. thumbs

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    I edited my post to add some Joe Bastardi -- a well-respected meteorologist -- quotes for you.
     
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    [rquoter]Mitt Romney, too, has a history of tackling climate change. As governor of Massachusetts, he signed on to a regional cap- and-trade plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels. “The benefits (of that plan) will be long- lasting and enormous -- benefits to our health, our economy, our quality of life, our very landscape. These are actions we can and must take now, if we are to have ‘no regrets’ when we transfer our temporary stewardship of this Earth to the next generation,” he wrote at the time.[/rquoter]

    I'm guessing the current Mitt Romney didn't want this brought up.
     
  13. basso

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    well. guess Mitt's toast in Ohio now.
     
  14. RocketMan Tex

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    The writing is on the wall. Mitt is toast, period.
     
  15. basso

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    not w/ 296 EV in the bag, and more to come.
     
  16. RocketMan Tex

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    :grin:

    Good luck with that!
     
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    296 EV in Narnia?

    :confused:
     
  19. Rocketman1981

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    Bloomberg is quite the fascist. Can't smoke, drink (closed a lot of clubs), drink big gulps etc. He got a third-term and if he gets a fourth new york will have bubble wrap on the sidewalks and the only food allowed will be tofu broccoli shakes.

    Where is Stallone when you need him!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JizGkM6gbvQ
     
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"I was undecided until I heard Bloomberg's endorsement." - nobody, anywhere, ever</p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/264112674894397441" data-datetime="2012-11-01T21:12:23+00:00">November 1, 2012</a></blockquote>
    <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     

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