Word: bloomberg
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...sometimes a flirt is just a flirt. Bloomberg clearly wants to be a player in the 2008 election, but that doesn't necessarily mean he wants to be a candidate...
...Mike thinks he has something to contribute to the national debate, and he wants his voice on the national stage," says Joel Klein, Bloomberg's school chancellor. "But it would be a mistake to infer from all this that he's running...
...quitting the G.O.P., Bloomberg has kept open the option of an independent campaign; that option wouldn't be open to a registered Republican. But there are still plenty of reasons to wonder whether he'll exercise that option...
...Start with his words today. Maybe Bloomberg didn't entirely "quiet the fierce speculation," but he did say that he wasn't running. The New York Times reported that he "insisted" he wasn't running, "insisted" in this case being defined as "said even though nobody believes him," but he's been saying that for months. Maybe he really does think that "I've got the greatest job in the world and I'm going to keep doing it," as he said (insisted?) today. When asked if he could imagine a circumstance in which he'd run for President...
...Then check out his words in the past. Bloomberg is a lame-duck Mayor, and he's pointed out several times that the national attention he gets over his Presidential prospects helps him move his agenda on guns, education, poverty, housing and global warming. It also gives him a national platform to complain about partisan gridlock and the power of special interests in Washington, as he did in TIME's current cover story. "If they speculate about the Presidency and it helps, I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage...