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Can we get Mayor Bloomberg to say that he will not run for a fourth term in writing? A couple of weeks after the mayor left the door open about the possibility of extending term limits a second time and attempting to stay in office for a total of sixteen years, he once again alluded to the notion of four more (more) years. This time the slip came during his weekly radio broadcast while the mayor was discussing a campaign initiative which would have 120,000 New Yorkers graduating community colleges by 2020. He said, "Community colleges are really a step for a lot of people. We did it as part of something where I was trying to lay out in the campaign [what] you would do in a fourth term, which I think you have a responsibility to do." Just as with the last instance of the mayor expanding his horizons, a spokesman was quick to insist afterward that Bloomberg intended to say his third term. The city college graduation plan would actually come at the end of a fifth Bloomberg term, which the mayor has not yet commented on.

A day after Mayor Bloomberg got people talking with some comments that seemed to leave the door open for the possibility of bonus term in office in four years time, he took out any room for the imagination. On his weekly radio show, the mayor said, "12 years would be quite enough. I would be 71 ... not that there's anything wrong with 71." On Thursday Bloomberg gave the sort of vague response to a question about a possible fourth term that rekindled the sort of speculation that kept him in the headlines as a potential third party candidate for president in 2008. His answer also conjured up his last reversal on term limits—Politico said he was "looking a little like Putin." On the airwaves yesterday, Bloomberg said, "N-O. Under any circumstances," and said he thinks he'd get "tired and bored" with sixteen years as mayor.