Inept

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, high off of his endorsement of Barack Obama in the midst of the devestation of Hurricane Sandy, has cancelled the New York City marathon out of concern for the citizens of the NYC area:

"While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division," he said in a statement Friday evening shortly after NBC 4 New York and a few other media outlets reported the cancellation. 

"We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it," Bloomberg added. "We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event -- even one as meaningful as this -- to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track." (Emphasis mine.)

So no, it wasn't out of the concern in his heart:  it was because the whole thing had caused "controversy" and "division," the chief sources of all that is wrong in the world today.  As we know, nothing good causes these twin evils.  This justification for canceling the event, which I agree should have been cancelled, says absolutely nothing directly about the event itself and instead focuses on the emotions and feelings the event has caused.   I salute Mayor Bloomberg for his bumbling ineptness.