Well, money can’t buy everything.
Michael Bloomberg, star of a trillion TV ads, made his big debut at Wednesday’s Democratic debate and basically closed on opening night. In his chance to introduce himself as something warmer than a stone-faced billionaire, he looked pretty much like … a stone-faced billionaire.
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