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Ironic Headline Of The Day: Billionaire Buffett To Stump For Hillary's "Everyday Americans" Campaign
Warren Buffett - billionaire investor, opposer of Citizens United but major donor to super-PACs, previous fan of Bernie Sanders, and vehement supporter of the 'fairness doctrine' on taxes for everyone but himself - will be joining 'campaigner for everyday Americans' Hillary Clinton as she stumps in Omaha this month.
In May 2015, Buffett backed Hillary...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is backing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
“I think that she is the most likely person to be president of the United States, elected in 2016, and I’m going to vote for her,” Buffett tells the Fox Business Network in an interview that will air Monday evening.
Then, as noted in September during a CNBC interview, the billionaire investor said that he admires the way that Sanders has run his campaign.
"I think Bernie Sanders has been a terrific campaigner. He campaigns exactly as I would campaign if I were a candidate," Buffett said.
Despite his opposition to the Citizens United ruling, Buffett has seemingly overcome his reluctance to donate to so-called super PACs, pledging to vote for Hillary Clinton and donating to the "Ready for Hillary" group in 2014.
In the interview, Buffett also said that it was a mistake for Clinton to make jokes about the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address and private server while she was secretary of state.
"I don't think it was the best way to handle it," Buffett said.
The Berkshire Hathaway CEO reaffirmed his support for Clinton's policies, and said that the email scandal was not particularly concerning for him. He has committed to vote for Clinton in the 2016 election.
And so now, he is going to stump for Hillary in Omaha this month...
The Democratic presidential front-runner will be stumping in Omaha on Dec. 16, with the help of famed Omaha investor Warren Buffett.
A Clinton campaign staffer said the visit is an effort to organize grassroots support before Nebraska’s Democratic caucuses.
She is also expected to talk about tax reform with Buffett, who has called for an income tax increase on the nation’s wealthier citizens.
Iowa holds the nation’s first presidential test Feb. 1, but Nebraska Democrats follow a little less than a month later on March 5.
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We are sure average joes and janes across America will feel relieved that two such 'feet on the ground, down to earth' people are representing their needs and hearing their fears.
As Mike Krieger previousl noted, it seems at least 60% of Americans get the joke. From Quinnipiac:
Clinton has the lowest rating for honesty as American voters say 60 – 36 percent she is not honest and trustworthy.
Trump is not honest and trustworthy, voters say 58 – 38 percent.
Clinton is deemed less trustworthy than Donald Trump, which is a remarkably achievement.
Moving along, who’s considered the most trustworthy? Interestingly enough, it’s the current Republican front runner, Ben Carson.
Carson gets the best honesty grades among top candidates, a positive 62 – 24 percent.
Fascinating... given he has now been outed as a lying shitbag not once, not twice, but three times.
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Insider helping another insider. I'm sure Buffet doesn't want anything (keep shipping oil by rail) in return.
All the psycho's are now sticking together, safety in numbers......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
We should go easy on Hillary. Just sentence the bitch to 30 days in prison for each of the 1,000 classified documents.
When she gets out, after serving 30,000 days, she can run for any office she wants. ;-)
Looney
Under one of the more obscure CFR's she could be charged with it quite clearly states she can't hold any Federal government job.
Standard Disclaimer: I do prefer your plan though. Seriously though, there are people stupid enough in this country to vote for her corpse.
Where is his ice cream cone? You can almost see the devil horns.
He's given up ice cream so he can pay more taxes.
Hopefully in 5 years he'll be able to pay more then his secretary....that's the plan anyway.
Uncle Warren know's that she's investment and he's gotta keep the magic going.....
would'nt even want to speculate the kind of dirt she has on him!!!
buffett's campaign slogan: I OWN DIS BITCH!
I have really come to despise that crony capitalist son of a bitch
Buffett, feeling his parasitic bravado wealth, is trying to emulate/copy JP Morgan, who stated “….. we will buy a president.”
Wants to be one of the boys, but, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie built America, Buffett sucks its blood.
Everybody calm down. Buffet cant live forever. 40, maybe 50 more years of this guy, tops, and he'll be gone. Soros has less than 100 left in him. Trust me, this will all blow over before you know it.
It really is scary with all the wealth these guys have that they'll be able to live to 110 and beyond potentially.
I don't have that much time to wait until all these guys die off. But yet again, even if they did, as Ron Pearlman said in the "Dirty Laundry" Punisher short, "Why fuckin' bother (killing bad guys)? That's my motto. If the Almighty stuck down on them today; there would be 5 more to replace them tomorrow. What's the fucking point?"
With unlimited organ transplants, once a month total transfusions with the blood of teenaged girls and a daily fetus smoothie, he'll live to be 120.
Did I forget the sarcasm tag?
I do hope the head in the jar scenario a la Futurama never is realized.
Miffed
Don't forget about the Face of Boe from the Dr. Who series.
That entity lived over 5 billion years.
I used to think Soros got daily blood transfusions from newborn babies, but now I'm convinced it's actually from Keith Richards.
James Franciscus just asked for you by name.
One of the few things that keeps me up at night is that science will make a breakthrough in life extension... before the boomers have departed this existence.
Oligarch powers activate, form of a grandfatherly bathtub boy pervert , shape of tent wearing jackal he/she bitch.
I guess we don't have to wonder who the next president is going to be any more. So we got that going for us at least.
Shoot me now..., seriously.....
I'm guessing you never saw the end of 'Titanic' did you? You gotta stay till the credits roll or you're not getting your fiat money's worth.
I guess there is some humor value of her being in charge when the country disintegrates, but I'd rather a responsible person be at the helm when that happens and tell the states they're in charge of their own lifeboats, rather than her cronies using an axe to bash holes in 90% of them and then charging people entry fees for the remaining 10%.
I can't figure out why he needs to sell out "Everyday Americans" just so he can supposedly give most of his wealth away when he croaks.
His 'legacy' is already pretty well shot, IMHO.
They are ALL lying shitbags.
What a fucking joke.
Why does Hillary Clinton keep saying "9/11" when people ask her about her Wall Street donors? gaw.kr/sZF9VMF
"Fascinating... given he has now been outed as a lying shitbag not once, not twice, but three times.
Carson is a piker compared to Obama. He can do that in just one statement.
Carson, Obama, and Eric Holder star in: "3 Uncle Toms" this Christmas. Financed by Goldman Sachs and Citi Film productions.
Thou shall not kill.
Standard Disclaimer: Imagine if there had only been nine commandments.
Buffett et al only live by one commandment: thou shalt increase thy power by any means.
Don't you know that fewer and fewer people are in the economy - property ownership, retail spending, political influence, ...... all the rest are just pushed aside. You will see less stores, services, and security in poor areas as these areas no longer matter and can not be saved from the upcoming economic disaster. When half the country begins to riot, I plan to be far away from major cities.
One's a douche the other's a nozzle, not sure which which tho - but parts interchangeable anyway.
Buffett is a total sell out. So he wants to promote a criminal? Man he most owe her big. This is despicable
Buffet is a sellout? Where have you been? Buffet owns these people. His man of the people routine is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated on the American sheeple.
Just like when he pretended to be the naive old grandpa value investor when he proclaimed that derivatives were financial weapons of mass destruction. Aww shucks I don't understand those complicated things.
"I view derivatives as time bombs, "
"The errors usually reflect the human tendency to take an optimistic view of one’s commitments. But the parties to derivatives also have enormous incentives to cheat in accounting for them"
"I can assure you that the marking errors in the derivatives business have not been symmetrical. Almost invariably, they have favored either the trader who was eyeing a multi-million dollar bonus or the CEO who wanted to report impressive “earnings” (or both). The bonuses were paid, and the CEO profited from his options. Only much later did shareholders learn that the reported earnings were a sham."
"The derivatives genie is now well out of the bottle, and these instruments will almost certainly multiply in variety and number until some event makes their toxicity clear. Central banks and governments have so far found no effective way to control, or even monitor, the risks posed by these contracts. In my view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent,are potentially lethal."
http://www.fintools.com/docs/Warren%20Buffet%20on%20Derivatives.pdf
And then when Uncle Warren got caught trading derivatives:
"Mr. Buffett once described derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction.” Yet some of his most ardent fans have quietly raised eyebrows at his pontifications, given that he plays in the opaque market. In the fourth quarter alone, Berkshire made $222 million on derivatives"
"Mr. Buffett appeared to backpedal from his oft-quoted line, explaining: “I don’t think they’re evil per se. It’s just, they, I mean there’s nothing wrong with having a futures contract or something of the sort. But they do let people engage in massive mischief"
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/derivatives-as-accused-by-buffett...
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This should tell people (the ones that think) something....time to wake up! Looney...your posts are always fantastic.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/natural-lefty/blog/2010/10/greed-psych...
I'll take half right dangerous thinking for $1000 Alex.
You can have a Marxist Utopia or you can have a Crony Capitalist Utopia which would you prefer?
Neither?
Off with yer head.
Warden buffett will now let the inmates out for 1 1/2 hours a day now.
Warren is doubling down to make sure Keystone doesn't get approved anytime soon? Keep those trains rolling.
In a year of such voter anger, I can see Buffett's endorsement as a negative for Hillary - but of course, her warchest won't mind the help!
When are all the financial dinosaurs finally going to fossilize?
OK, got it. Wall St is for Hillary and the Dems. Thanks for clearing that up.
When I think of an "everyman", I think of Unca Warren.
/s
Token Carson as the front-runner is even more pathetic than Trojan Trump being the frontrunner, and betrays that the average GOP voter's emotional age is in the single digits.
I'm not one of those people that think they actually count votes, also not a D or R...but just to play along. You do realize that the "other" option is the group that put Obumbles in office.
Well, this tells you everything you'd ever need to know about Warren Buffett.
Buffet is an insider masquerading as an outsider.
The FED uses him to publically bail out private companies with taxpayer dollars.
Another in a long line of sell out traitors.
Crony capitalism requires a giver and a taker. perfect pair.
He either does it or he ends up face down in a ditch. Is Becky Quick gonna be there too?
Uncle Warren is gonna play the ukulele and lick Hilochio I mean ice cream cones. Two douchebags in the same place. I'll vote for her because they both care about me.
That pic shows that he is busy calculating in his head how much this all is going to make him
Buffet? I thought that old shit was dead.
how has trump shown dishonesty? serious ? every "ism" in the book & possibly created a few new ones along the way, sure, but dishonesty? how? I'm not a supporter so spare me any attempt at that straw man (oops, "person"), just wondering if I missed something (entirely possible) or if this is just another "it sounds like a bad word & I don't like him so I'm gonna agree he's that!" reflex?
While Carson seems a decent and reasonable guy and a candidate with good support, he is not and never has been the Republican's "front runner".
RCP poll averages Trump v Carson: National 28.7/19.7; Iowa 26.7/20; NH 26/10.5; Sth Carolina 29/22.7; Reuter's national rolling poll 31/14.7.
A few times in the past Carson ticked up near Trump but then faded.
One of the Tylers is being very careless -- almost like an MSM article.
The moment I take office...I throw him and Sharpton in Jail for back taxes. Basturds! Beam me up!
Hillary campaigns for Goldman Sachs.
Hillary was greeted like a celebrity superstar in Boston the other day.
I vomited in my mouth a little, but I recovered quickly.
Eugenicist Warren Buffet gave $15 Billion to eugenicist Bill Gates' vaccine program.
Buffet could not possibly be unware of Hilliary's shady past of lies, deceit, corruption, and hit squad/cleaners operations.
This stumping for Hilliary proves my point that despite his " aw shucks" false modesty appearance he tries to portray, Buffet is a sinister, coniving SOB who has opportunistically benefited from his connections to the government-crime complex.
Good thing this bastard is so old. Can't wait for him and his kind to die.
Can't I just get sick with out having to look at a headline.
Fknwb set the blueprint for the destruction of the America we knew and almost loved.
Shut down Coca cola
Shut down pepsi
these are causing climate change