Mayor Bloomberg, the US is "really in trouble"

Tuesday June 19, 2007 | | Permalink | Digg It

In a speech to Google employees, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had this to say:

“Whoever out of those 20 becomes president I think has to do something about a country that I think is really in trouble,” Mr. Bloomberg said, referring to the current crop of candidates. “There’s the war, there is our relationships around the world.”

“Our reputation has been hurt very badly in the last few years,” he continued, criticizing what he called a “go-it-alone mentality” in an increasingly interconnected world.

This brings to mind that we are in desperate need of leadership that does not have a myopic, close-minded, mis-understanding of what happens in the rest of the world. To insist that outside opinions, policies, and governments are meaningless to our viability is a foolish philosophy, and will eventually lead to a marginalized United States.

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