http://theweek.com/speedreads/...-ford-mahatma-gandhi

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to believe he is destined for great things. He even traveled to Iowa earlier this month, and although he's flatly denied that he is eyeing a run for president, the mayor has signaled in interviews that his sights are set on much more than just his city.

There's just one problem — many Democrats have no interest in seeing him run. "They think he's smug," Politico writes, adding: "The rap on de Blasio is that he likes to make a lot of noise but doesn't like to do a lot of work, that he has an oversize sense of his own importance."

De Blasio doesn't do much to help his case in that regard. Confronted with his bold failure of a "progressive agenda" that he initially announced in 2014, de Blasio called it "banal and simplistic" to suggest he might fail again if he takes the plan national:

“I want to talk to anyone who thinks that and tell them they need to start thinking more. I mean, give me a break. So every time someone tries something and it doesn't work, it invalidates anything else they might do going forward? Tell Thomas Edison that, and Henry Ford, tell Mahatma Gandhi. How many people fell on their faces along the way trying things, experimenting with things, had setbacks? There's no leader who hasn't had setbacks."

Perhaps realizing the folly of comparing himself to such giants of history, de Blasio swiftly corrects himself — he's a "speck on the universe" compared to those three, just trying to do his part. But ask him about Hillary Clinton, whose 2000 Senate campaign he managed but whose 2016 presidential campaign he was banished from because he slammed her for failing to have a progressive vision, and he'll jump in with, "But I was right!" [Politico]

What a jerk.
Liberal-chk
Arrogant ass-chk
Liar-chk
Delusional-chk

Fit the lib stereotype to a t.
This just the short list.

He will never be like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Mahatma Gandhi until he dies. Soon?

Grandiose delusions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions

I ignore you for 5 minutes and you're already having delusions of grandeur

When he looks in the mirror in the morning he thinks he sees God.

Bla is going to be one of the clowns in what will be the clown car of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nod. He won't be a standout.

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:
...Democrats have no interest in seeing him run... "The rap on de Blasio is that he likes to make a lot of noise but doesn't like to do a lot of work, that he has an oversize sense of his own importance."

That exact description fits Obama, and they got him elected.

he realize he was only elected because a major portion of the city stayed home on Election Day?

A legend in his own mind.

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De Blasio doesn't do much to help his case in that regard. Confronted with his bold failure of a "progressive agenda" that he initially announced in 2014, de Blasio called it "banal and simplistic" to suggest he might fail again if he takes the plan national:

So if I understand his thoughts, he had something more than 8 million guinea pigs for his "great plans". And while the rest of us are pretty well aware of that MCF he still seems to think all he did was turn NYC into a super successful ultra-lib paradise. Does that about cover it?

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:

...He even traveled to Iowa earlier this month, and although he's flatly denied that he is eyeing a run for president, the mayor has signaled in interviews that his sights are set on much more than just his city...

We have the first presidential primary (technically it's a caucus) and we'll get LOTS of visitors in the next couple years.

In Jan of 2016 I had not yet retired as a reserve LEO and assisted USSS with airport security for visits from Hillary and Ben Carson (two hours apart) and Donald Trump (a week or so later).

Well, I fancy him a douchebag.

I'm surprised he shot so low.

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Originally posted by radioman:
Grandiose delusions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions

Most, if not all arrogant Ass Holes have these Grandiose delusions.
Just goes to show we have another one in de Blasio...I doubt he has any chance, especially after how he ran NYC into the ground.
Enough of these liberal, progressive, democrats.

Both he and Comey are living proof that shit really can be piled that high. (6'5" and 6'8" respectively.)

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de Blasio called it "banal and simplistic"

from across the continent I can tell exactly what is 'banal and simplistic' in de Blasio's case...

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Well, I fancy him a douchebag.

So he is a fancy douche bag?

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.3da46cb893f2

Bill de Blasio declares a ‘new progressive era’ in New York

By David Weigel January 1 at 4:44 PM

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) began his second term Monday by decrying a “new dawn of divisiveness” in the United States and suggesting that “a new progressive era” had begun in the country’s largest city.

“A society where only the 1 percent can get ahead is truly a house divided against itself,” de Blasio said. “It is a reality that cannot be sustained.”

The mayor made several less-than-subtle references to President Trump’s administration, describing New York City as a bulwark against it. He noted that the city’s 2017 homicide rate was the lowest since 1951, crediting the drop to community policing reforms that conservatives had opposed. And without mentioning the president by name, he warned that “overt and gleeful prejudice is suddenly in vogue” and that New York was standing against it.

“This gaudy celebration of discrimination based on faith or color or nationality is simply un-American,” de Blasio said. “Every time a police officer is trained to de-escalate a conflict, we step into the future.”

De Blasio was sworn in at City Hall Park by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a decision that gave the frigid outdoor ceremony a national political tilt. After the city’s other elected officials delivered short speeches, with subtle references to de Blasio’s first-term disappointments, Sanders praised the mayor for expanding urban social programs while Republicans in Washington move to shrink government.

“Instead of pandering to billionaires, we have a government that has chosen to listen to the needs of working families,” Sanders said. “While many politicians don’t even talk about child care, he is moving this city toward universal pre-K education.”

Sanders, a Brooklyn native who has spent his political life in Vermont, was invited to the inauguration by de Blasio himself, a move that spoke loudly about changes in Democratic Party politics. In 2014, de Blasio asked former president Bill Clinton to swear him in, and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton watched from the dais as her husband praised de Blasio’s “real modern family” and his campaign to create a city of “shared opportunities, shared prosperity, shared responsibilities.”

Four years later, the Clintons have receded from their generational role in Democratic politics. De Blasio, who in 2016 endorsed Hillary Clinton over Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, said in November that any modern president whose personal behavior echoed Bill Clinton’s “would have to resign.” In his inaugural remarks Monday, de Blasio praised the Vermont senator and his wife, Jane, for driving the party, and national politics, to the left.

“You have proven that the voices of the people are what matter most, and the political process in this country will never be the same,” de Blasio said. “It will be more democratic.”

With a second term secured, de Blasio has stepped up his own national political advocacy. During a trip last month to meet with Democrats in Iowa, de Blasio told The Washington Post that he would campaign wherever the party needed him if it could help win Congress and state legislatures in the 2018 midterm elections.

De Blasio has started that work in New York, where an unusual coalition between centrist Democrats and Republicans has given the GOP effective control of the Senate. The mayor has been among the most prominent Democrats urging voters to replace the members of the “Independent Democratic Caucus” and has feuded with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), who after years of working with the IDC has said he wants his party to win control outright.

“So now he’s going to move heaven and earth to have a Democratic state Senate, and he wants to elect Democratic Congress members in the swing districts and not see them redistricted against the interest of Democratic candidates?” de Blasio told Politico late last year. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

In 2017, pressure from de Blasio and other progressives appeared to move Cuomo to the left. The governor appeared with Sanders to propose tuition-free state college educations for anyone whose family earned less than $125,000 a year. In December, Cuomo suggested that the state “break down fundamental barriers that for far too long have prevented New Yorkers from being heard” by introducing early voting and automatic voter registration.

Cuomo got good political news of his own on Monday, when businessman Harry Wilson announced that he would not seek the Republican nomination for governor this year. Wilson, who nearly won a race for state comptroller in 2010, was seen as the party’s strongest possible candidate, with personal wealth that could have cut into Cuomo’s fundraising advantage. Cuomo’s last opponent, former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, lost his reelection bid last year as suburban voters in New York and other states swung toward the Democrats.

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de Blasio swiftly corrects himself — he's a "speck on the universe"

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/3GTLM89pN0A