decision. one recognizes marriage equality as consistent with america s march of freedom. one does not. i want our president to be on the right side of history. one sees climate change as an urgent problem. one does not. i want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics. well said by a savvy mayor of new york. he is so smart. the guy is very savvy. he waited until now. correct. i had somebody use the following phrase with me, he may be the ultimate lagging indicator in that mayor bloomberg is a cautious guy politically. he s always looking out for mayor bloomberg, and there s nothing wrong with that. politicians always look out for their own best interests first. that s the nature of being an ambitious pol, but would he have done this if he thought obama was going to lose? that s an indicator of the public. that s my question. i don t know. by the way, the late brilliant jack jarvis somebody once say when that ball comes down o
mayor bloomberg? it s not even close. you would want bloomberg. the timing of bloomberg, too. couldn t have come at a better time. say question to you, bloomberg or the des moines register ? i would rather have bloomberg. you re talking about bloomberg, powell, and then in some senses the tacit at least visual endorsement of chris christie. chris christie is obviously not endorsing barack obama in any explicit way, but he said a lot of kind things about the president in the last 48 hours. you have a bunch of centrist kind of pseudo republicans, who knows where they are politically, but the cumulative effect i think is powerful. is there obama momentum right now, chuck? you score these pretty straight right down the middle. it s funny. i call it there s sort of the campaign insider s zeitgeist, if you will, and there s this assumption whether you heard haley barbour say it publicly, i talked to strategists on both
marriage. he got a phone call this morning from vice president biden who he likes personally a great deal, personally he likes vice president biden more than he likes president obama, but he had a conversation with vice president biden who asked for an endorsement. this was not an endorsement long in the making. people had been asking questions about the fact that he trashed president obama pretty harshly in the new york times and the atlantic very harshly. if he was doing something savvy trying to set this up. he hadn t planned to endorse literally until today. so how many votes it s going to move in the midwest, that s a dubious question. it helps president obama refute the notion that republicans are making that he can t work across the aisle. and all three of us think of it going the other way, what would it have meant? that s right. it was the same with the colin powell endorsement. let s look at that. excuse me. the president s campaign today released an ad toutin
york. he is so smart. the guy is very savvy. he waited until now. correct. i had somebody use the following phrase with me, he may be the ultimate lagging indicator in that mayor bloomberg is a cautious guy politically. he s always looking out for mayor bloomberg and there s nothing wrong with that. politicians always look out for their own best interests first. that s the nature of being an ambitious pol, but would he have done this if he thought obama was going to lose. that s a indicator of the public. that s my question. i don t know. by the way, the late brilliant jack jarvis somebody once say when that ball comes down on new year s eve, or just at midnight when it starts to come down, that s how he would come down on an issue. you know the decision had been made. here i give him more credit, mike bloomberg, who i happen to like personally. i think he does follow very
constructive, middle of the road instincts on this thing. my thought. he s trying to put himself and he s brn trying to position himself for a long time as kind of a centrist arbiter. he set up a super pac to set up centrist politicians and moderate politicians. he cares a lot about this issue in particular, climate change, and the other issues where he is basically a social liberal on questions like abortion and gay marriage. he got a phone call this morning from vice president biden who he likes personally a great deal, personally he likes vice president biden more than he likes president obama but he had a conversation with vice president biden of who asked for an endorsement. this was not an endorsement long in the making. people had been asking questions about the fact that he trashed president obama pretty harshly in the new york times and the atlantic very harshly. if he was doing something savvy trying to set this up. he hadn t planned to endorse literally until today