3. Good: Bloomberg doesn't have much love for The Donald, so Bernie won't have to handle the whole job himself of attacking his Republican rival during the fall campaign.
Bad: Bloomberg has his own news service and an army of journalists on payroll, who no doubt will be called upon to churn out favorable articles about the boss. Sanders for his part can barely get mentioned in the corporate media, and when he does get mentioned, it's usually in the form of hit pieces.
2. Good: Bloomberg treated the Occupy Wall Street abominably, no doubt because all his buddies are Wall Street bankers and investment bankers who were terrified by the rabble at their gates, and were annoyed at being discommoded by having to endure taunts from spikey-haired lip-ringed kids as they rode to "work" in their limos and by the need to cross police barricades that were blocking off the whole of Wall Street itself. This will give Sanders, who backed the Occupy movement, a great target. He'll be able to rake Bloomberg, the uber-one-percenter, for calling out the NYPD thugs and loosing them on the protesting kids, for denying them portapotties near the Zuccotti Park occupation zone, and for finally crushing the movement with a night-time assault and police riot that featured clubs, tear gas, mace and mass arrests. (Bloomberg did the same thing earlier with protests against the Iraq invasion and with a march and demonstration against the Republican National Convention.)
Bad: If Bloomberg were somehow to win the presidency, we can expect even more military-style policing, more spying and fewer civil liberties. Mayor Mike may have a soft spot for gay rights and abortion rights, but he's no fan of civil liberties.
1. Good: Bloomberg has all the charm and easy folksiness of a... robber baron. Looking like he's badly constipated and just ate something bad when he's in a group of plebes, he makes Bernie Sanders look positively charismatic in comparison.
Bad: He is a robber Barron, and he can and no doubt would pour endless amounts of his own money into an independent campaign, swamping both Trump's funding and Sanders' funding -- money that he could have put to much better use by donating it to the poor kids of the city's cash-starved schools, as he should have done back in depths of the recession.
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