Obama (hearts) Bloomberg

Obama likes NYC Mayor Bloomberg?  But he's a rich guy and we know Obama hates all rich guys (except for all those rich guys who pour money into his campaign).  The DC Morning email suggests that Obama's love for Bloomberg is not about his fondness of diminutive Jewish billionaires, but because he's afraid Bloomberg will run against him in 2012:

York Magazine's John Heilemann poses the theory in this week's issue that Pres. Obama is being so nice to Mayor Doomberg because he is scared of him! To whit: "The likelihood of Bloomberg’s running is just as great as, if not greater than, it was when he considered taking the plunge in 2008—and that specter is very much on the minds of Obama’s people. In the past few months, the White House has made a gaudy show of sucking up to the mayor: inviting him to play golf in Martha’s Vineyard with Obama, floating his name as a potential Treasury secretary, dispatching Joe Biden and Tim Geithner to have breakfast with him and seek his economic counsel. The motivations behind the blandishments are many, but not the least is to blunt the Bloomberg threat—to keep him on the sidelines in 2012, where he and his billions would pose no danger of redrawing the electoral map in unpredictable and perilous ways." Hahaha. Please don't run for office, you ###hole. I sent Geronimo Joe and Turbotax Timmy to have breakfast with you!

Bloomberg's an opportunist. That's how he made his billions, and if he sees an opportunity to become president by running against an incompetent Obama, he'll consider it money well spent.

And he's got plenty of money. This is a guy who could spend a billion dollars on a campaign and not even miss it.