By Stella Paul
Pity the poor New York politician. Take Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was merrily reigning over New York, banning bake sales in public schools because he doesn’t trust parents to monitor their children’s cupcake ingestion. Now, all of a sudden, just because he trusts a sharia-spouting imam with mysterious Mideast millions to preach peace and love at Ground Zero, the whole country is mad at him. Why, he can practically feel his plan to sweep to the presidency on a “Make Mosques, Not Cupcakes” platform crumbling before his eyes.
And spare a tear for forlorn Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. A bland hedgehog of a man, he glowed with confidence that all he had to do was call his fellow New Yorkers “outright haters and bigots” for opposing a Ground Zero Victory Mosque, and they would clasp him to their hearts and crown him mayor. Now he’s stuttering that he didn’t know…didn’t think…while waking up in a cold sweat at 3 A.M., realizing that every red-blooded American with a dollar will send it to whoever runs against him.
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