joining us now and man, are we lucky to have him, chris smith. he writes about mayor michael bloomberg s future in light of superstorm sandy in this week s new york magazine. he writes, pre-storm, the mayor was attending to his day job, but he was also trying to graduate from being a mayor of one big city to being something larger. a post-partisan national political force. it was a test drive for his future, then approaching his final year in office, bloomberg was suddenly in the midst of a week that could decide. every bit of him was on display, his strengths as manager and remarkable blind spots particularly when he insisted the marathon would go on as scheduled. sandy was his crisis, just as 9/11 belonged to rudy. meanwhile, in the background, bloomberg s quest for relevance