I just read that NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg endorsed a Democrat in the election for the Staten Island seat in the US House of Representatives.

It made me wonder if Bloomberg plans to back McCain or Obama for president.

That thought made me wonder if he has already decided to back one or the other, and I just don't know about it yet.

I asked Google, and they sent me to a Huffington Post article, and it told me that the Green Party, "without the mayor's knowledge or consent," gathered enough signatures to put Bloomberg on the presidential ballot in Virginia, with Ron Paul as his VP.

I guess the implication there is that he hasn't done any endorsing.

But now I wonder if his inclusion on the Virginia ballot matters.  Will he take a substantial amount of votes from one of the candidates?  Which one? 

And what if he did endorse someone, how much would it help?

But, now, after spending a few minutes writing this, I'm thinking about the recent Wall St insanity and wondering if we ought to dress Bloomberg in a Superman costume and send him around, bank to bank, treasury office to treasury office, trying to save the financial sector. 

I actually have no idea if Bloomberg is any good at anything, but a lot of people love him, and I bet a lot of people would get pretty excited to see him flying around, cape flapping in the wind, fighting irresponsible investing.