Michael Bloomberg: Obama Is ‘Our President’ And ‘He Needs Our Support’

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stopped by GMA this morning and urged critics of President Obama to stop looking to blame him for America’s economic troubles and to start focusing on the future and how to fix the problem. “We don’t have the luxury of focusing on the next election,” Bloomberg warned while confirming once again that he will definitely not be running for President as an Independent in 2012.

Bloomberg concludes that the situation with the economy in 2008 was that everyone was taking too much risk, but today it’s exactly the opposite in that nobody wants to take any risk. The risk aversion is understandable in Bloomberg’s estimation since:

“We have at this point regulation that changes every day – business can’t plan that way. We have a tax policy that nobody can understand . . . we have a government that fundamentally is not working.”

Yet despite Bloomberg’s reasoned complaints, he’s not blaming the President:

“For better or for worse, no matter what your political persuasion is, the President is our President. We have to get behind the President. . . . And he needs our support.”

Given the economic turmoil, George Stephanopoulos wonders why now wouldn’t be the best time possible for a third party candidate to run? Yet Bloomberg believes the “deck is stacked against third party candidates,” and instead seems content urging citizens not to “blame” their leaders, but to get behind them.

Watch the clip from ABC below:

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