"I'm no bully" sounds a lot like "I'm not a crook". After being a fan of the Sopranos, I would rather not have a New Jersey politician like Christie in the White House. He's on my "no way in hell" list, along with anyone named Clinton, Bush, or Obama, or anyone from Texas.
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You know a politician is having a bad day when he has to stand before a news conference and plead, “I am who I am, but I am not a bully.”
Frankly, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was unconvincing on that score Thursday as he attempted to contain a widening abuse-of-power scandal. Moreover, Christie displayed a degree of egocentrism that can only be described as stunning. His apologies would have sounded more sincere if he hadn’t portrayed himself as the real victim.
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...as-victim.html
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A bit of background is needed: During his successful re-election campaign last fall, Christie — shown by polls to be a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, should he decide to seek it — tried to run up the score by winning endorsements from elected officials across the state, Democrats as well as Republicans.
The mayor of Fort Lee, the town on the New Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, declined to give Christie his support. Shortly thereafter, Christie’s deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, sent an email to an official at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that controls the bridge, that said: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
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