Bloomberg Learned Obama Was Coming...From The Blogz!

With President Obama visiting Wall Street and Cooper Union this Thursday in order to push for a new financial overhaul package, you'd imagine that someone would have let Mayor Bloomberg know. "I just saw on the blogs this morning he was coming so I haven't talked to anyone in the White House," Bloomberg told reporters this morning. Wait...the Mayor reads blogs plural—as in other blogs besides Gothamist?

Back in 2008, then Senator Obama visited NYC and also talked at Cooper Union; during that visit, the Mayor went out of his way to welcome him, even issuing a "highly unusual" press statement letting the media know he'd be introducing Obama. Oh how things have changed in two years: the Mayor not only didn't know Obama was coming—he has an Earth Day event scheduled at the same time as Obama's speech.

As Maggie Haberman of the Post points out, the whole thing "suggests" a cooling of relations between the two camps, perhaps of a "topical" nature, since the Mayor hasn't been in favor of the Wall Street crackdown: "There's no [government] regulation that will ever match self-regulation if it's done correctly...Just because the government can never keep up with everything. These are complex worlds we live in. That's not true only of finance. That's true of everything the government regulates."

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By Ben Yakas in News on April 19, 2010 5:24 PM

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pal

i guarantee you folks that bloomberg knew he was coming!!

don't be so naive. (you too gothamist)

this is just bloomberg being the passive aggressive weasel that he is.

suepart

bloomberg may be a giant ass with money coming out of his wazoo but at least we know where he stands on every issue, but with obama it is murky politics at its worst and more talking than in a grad school philosophy doctorate tutorial

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

WTF, he does the opposite of what he states. this is the mayor that stated overturning the will of the people on term limits would be a disgrace. give me a break.

newport27

bloomberg you shitbag, go fuck yourself

obama probably thinks you're a scumbag of a politician too and that's why he dissed you.. haha

MrCholly

Thank you President Obama for putting Bloomberg in his place. He's a just the Mayor, his PC should've alerted him if anyone. Bloomberg was dissed by President Obama. lol

mtauser

Clinton needs to stop betraying America by being with Bush Jr and his daughter.

Bush never pardon'ed Pollard and Clinton was supporting the antizionist policies of Yitzak Rabin.

Now we have Barak Obama at the helm and we need to fight to get this man out and stay one step above at all costs.

Oh yes it is a war right now in the USA, a fight to bring this nation back to the values it held so dear for so long which have been stripped away over and over again with no end in sight.

Traitors are not welcome.

mtauser

Obama needs to keep out of New York City.

He is wrong for America and wrong for the world at large. Due to Obama, the population of Israel is going to grow substantially now and I believe in a few short years, Israel will be the new world superpower at the rate this nation is going.

Ironic that Tony Blair got stuck in Jerusalem and couldn't get into the UK. I think socialism like the UK needs to be taken out of Israel.

Rahm Emanuel is antizionist and a traitor to Israel.

OBAMA YOU AREN'T WELCOME HERE!!!!!! GO BACK HOME AND STAY THERE.

But since he is coming, we take to the streets to bring back our country in the method we shall see fit.

What happened to Yitzak Rabin was an act of g-d's will.

And Jonathan Pollard is still rotting in a jail convicted on espionage for sharing secrets with Israel when we know now that the USA is pathetic right now.

soxinthecity

Shouldn't you be bulldozing some Palestinian family out of their home in the West Bank, instead of telling a country that you are not even loyal to how to behave?

mtauser

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FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

LOL, Bloomberg reads blogs? Hey Bloomberg, go fuck yourself.

NYCDownHill

Arrogant Obama. You come into a city and don't even tell the mayor. How is the security detail suppose to be set up and agencies made aware in time to set up for this agenda pushing. So far, he has been the biggest disapointment as president in my life time. 3 decades. He is selfish and is in charge of a piss poor government. Instead of looking at the economic model that has been in place but hasn't been updated in a long time, he puts new fiscal restraints on a lot of americas.

Politburo

I would guarantee that the security folks know about it. Don't be stupid.

As for the "new fiscal restraints", what exactly are they? Most families got a $800 tax cut. Not sure how that is a restraint.

longacre

Biden will also be in town Thursday as a guest on "The View." Expect a royal shit show on the roads and at the airports.

GalBklyn

Mayor B. doesn't seem to be in the 'in crowd' these days... gee...

Guess not being on the team hurts sometimes.

JacqueMehoff

you mean Obama didn't give bloombag the 411 when he was in DC last week asking congress to take it easy on wall street and the richies?

Tpyo

You don't seem to know the meaning of "thawed" relations. Oxford English dictionary: "thawed: (4) make or become friendlier or more cordial." That's clearly not what's happening here.

John Clavis

Hey Mayor Stupid, self-regulation is what got us *into* this mess. Expecting greedy, selfish sociopaths to police themselves is more than a little naive.