Monday, April 19, 2010

'I Just Saw on the Blogs This Morning He Was Coming'

Face it, Bloomy, Obama just doesn't care for you. You're only the Mayor of New York City, after all, and what have you done for him lately?
Mayor Bloomberg learned from reading about -- not from the White House -- that President Obama is heading to the Big Apple on Thursday to talk about Wall Street reform at Cooper Union.

"I just saw on the blogs this morning he was coming, so I haven't talked to anyone in the White House," Bloomberg told reporters.

As it happens, Bloomberg has an Earth Day event scheduled at the same time as Obama's speech.

The whole thing suggests that City Hall wasn't given a heads-up about the visit.

Bloomberg has been less than warm and fuzzy about the proposed Wall Street crackdown by the Obama administration -- saying it could hurt the city disproportionately.

"There's no [government] regulation that will ever match self-regulation if it's done correctly," Bloomberg told reporters. "Just because the government can never keep up with everything. These are complex worlds we live in. That's not true only of finance. That's true of everything the government regulates."

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