Too menial a job for him

Buried in the deluge of leaked Clinton campaign e-mails is this, “Bloomberg aide suggested the former NYC mayor wanted to be Hillary Clinton’s secretary of state“:

“A former aide to Michael Bloomberg suggested the former mayor was hoping to be secretary of state in a Hillary Clinton administration, according to hacked emails released Saturday by WikiLeaks. In an email exchange between Bloomberg aide Howard Wolfson and Clinton ally Neera Tanden … who runs the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, said she was relieved and asked if there was a foreign policy position that Bloomberg would consider under a possible Clinton administration. “Is there something Mike Bloomberg would want to do in his life in an Admin?” she wrote. “Is like Ambassador to China way too small?” Wolson responded candidly: “Secty of state Which ain’t gonna happen,” he wrote …”

I suspect this more Wolfson thinking out loud as opposed to something Bloomberg himself brought up.  Being Mayor of New York City is a big deal, even though it’s not top of the political food chain.  In a way Secretary of State would be a step down because the job is subordinate to the President.  As Mayor,  he was constrained by the Governor and State Legislature, but was able to say pretty much whatever he pleased, something no President would allow.