Richard Whalen

Bloomberg is a genius.He is also a financial visionary, which accounts for his ability to invent the most useful data machine that anybody on Wall Street has ever seen. Bloomberg realizes that a potentially cataclysmic financial crisis is unfolding. He reads it between the lines of the financial news every day.

As a businessman in addition to a politician, Bloomberg calculates that the crisis will bring him the presidency on his terms as everyone panics over the collapse of the economy, the dollar and the financial system. I do not exaggerate: The New York Times (1/14/08) reports that even people with money are running so scared they are not spending it – an un-American activity if I ever heard one.

As the global economic crisis unfolds and the financial illiterates in Washington display their ignorance and panic, the draft Bloomberg movement will swiftly get off the ground. Indeed, the movement, consisting solely of the candidate himself, is already moving at a brisk pace. Ordinary politicians and political reporters do not understand what they are witnessing: Bloomberg has advanced his candidacy from the realm of fantasy to the brink of reality.By March 4^th, when all of the big states will have been heard from, and all of the very small and inadequate candidates have been measured against the crisis they face, Bloomberg’s candidacy will become a reality overnight. By April Fool’s Day, Bloomy will have an impressive base of popular support even among skeptical New Yorkers.