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Mayor Bloomberg endorses President Obama for re-election

Five days before the election and in the middle of the city’s hurricane recovery that depends heavily on federal aid, Mayor Bloomberg today endorsed President Obama for re-election.

Bloomberg’s endorsement was spelled out in an op-ed article for his own news organization that, strangely, contained as much criticism of the President as praise.

“Like so many other independents, I have found the past four years to be — in a word — disappointing,” the mayor wrote.

He proceeded to blast Obama for devoting “little time and effort to developing and sustaining a coalition of centrists, which doomed hope for any real progress on illegal guns immigration, tax reform, job creation and deficit reduction.”

With that out of the way, Bloomberg then explained that he intended to vote for Obama because of his positions on health care, education, climate change, marriage equality and abortion.

For weeks, the mayor has been chiding both Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney for not spelling out how they’d make the hard decisions to return the country to prosperity.

He did so again in the op-ed piece.