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Lefty Billionaire Warren Buffett Pimping Himself Out To Raise Funds For Obama’s Reelection Campaign…

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Warren Buffett will host a fundraiser for President Obama next month in New York City, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO told CNNMoney on Thursday.

With the 2012 election season just around the corner, the campaign to put Obama back in the White House for a second term is well underway — and it’s not unusual for the campaign to boost the president’s drawing power by allowing him to share the stage with a well known benefactor.

Billed as an “Economic Forum Dinner with Warren Buffett,” the fundraiser will be held at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York and moderated by former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, according to a schedule obtained by Politico.

The event will bring in a pretty penny for the campaign. The base price is $10,000, while a $35,800 donation will buy a VIP reception with Buffett, according to the schedule.

The Democratic National Committee confirmed the fundraiser was happening, but was silent on the details.

Last week, Buffett made clear — in a very high-profile way — that he supports one of Obama’s key policy goals: Higher taxes on the rich.

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23 comments
  1. CapnAngus says:
    August 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Obama called Buffet before he made his BofA purchase.
    If Obama profited in any way from that purchase, he’s guilty of insider trading.

  2. nevergiveup says:
    August 25, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    So why is Buffett investing into a ‘green’ Chinese car instead of the Chevy Volt? How is he helping America by doing that? Right, his dollar is different than our dollar. I think he’s getting senile.

  3. HadEnough says:
    August 25, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    So good it had to be shared……

    “Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay” Kinky Friedman 2011

  4. Mr. Galt says:
    August 25, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    Currently reading David Horowitz’s book “Radical Son”, and was fascinated to discover that Horowitz’s former publication (Ramparts, a Marxist publication) was the beneficiary of a very active leftist named – you guessed it – Warren Buffet.

    Buffet is a smoldering red douchebag. Is it any wonder he is consulted by “The One” and advocates massive tax increases?

  5. HadEnough says:
    August 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    …and oh yeah Mr. Buffett I know it won’t matter much but my funds are being pulled out of BoA….it was starting to rot and smell……..

  6. Katherine says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Ah Buffett, get out your effing checkbook and write the Treasury a check for $20 million and go home. You want other people forced to pay what you are not willing to pay voluntarily.

    I can only think that somehow you are making big bucks off Obama’s Presidency. And that you’re willing to screw the rest of us to do it.

  7. CapnAngus says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:10 pm

    A couple of stories that meld into this

    Why is the Obama Admin. pressuring the NY AG to stop his mortgage fraud investigation?
    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/obama-administration-pressring-new-york-attorney-general-to-drop-mortgage-fraud-investigations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+|+OTB%29

    & Warren Buffett lied when he said his secretary paid more in taxes than he does. (If he can’t be trusted on small details.)
    http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2011/08/was-warren-buffett-right.html

  8. Jimco says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    Buffet doesn’t invest unless he sees a guarenteed return. He’ll get paid.

  9. Rob says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    Krieger is on fire today:

    Mike Krieger of KAM LLP

    “The interesting thing about today is that I had intended to write this piece on Warren Buffett all week. It was just really fortuitous timing that this Bank of America news came out today. Gosh where to start. First of all, this $5 billion preferred investment by Uncle Warren in preferred stock is extremely bearish for the market, the economy and the financial system. This is not an investment, it is political-economic strategy. It tell us so many things that we probably already suspected. It tells us that Bank of America did indeed need capital. Even worse they probably need so much that they went to Uncle Warren for five big ones so that people would just look the other way and gain “confidence.” This is how out to lunch these guys are. They don’t understand that the root of the lack of confidence is that the people see a country devolving into a Banana Republic led by greedy oligarchs and politicians stealing everything in sight as the ship sinks….This is 1789 France folks as I have said many times before. Second, the fact that TPTB are resorting to Uncle Warren for everything now may mean the Fed is out of the game. No one has confidence in the Fed to come save the day so they need the next thing. That next thing is Uncle Warren. Unfortunately it’s not working and it is not going to work. You can see it in the market today. People are waking up. They are starting to see through the matrix. Buffett is a fraud and a shill. If you follow him it will be right over a cliff.”

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/wolf-sheeps-clothing

  10. Rob says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    For those who aren’t aware Warren bought 5 billion shares of BoA today…

  11. Vinny says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    Oh I hope Odumbo bankrupts Buffet

  12. Spurwing Plover says:
    August 25, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Time for waring buttkicker to be commited to a assilum for the hoplessly nutty

  13. TimT says:
    August 25, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    I keep reading all of these stories about Buffet. I think they are being used to deflect who the real evil is behind this administration: George Soros.

  14. AYFKM? says:
    August 25, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Warren Butfatt is a T R A I T O R.

    He knew the finacial collapse was coming and did nothing to warn his fellow citizens.

  15. listingstarboard says:
    August 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Warren Buffet invested heavily in GE, Chinese electric cars, Chinese seafood and in NALCO, the company that makes the chemical dispersant Corexit used in the Gulf oil spill(as well as Soros, Al Gore etc.) These men are playing a chess game using American taxpayers and AMerican soldiers as pawns in their neverending lust for power and money. We have been totally manipulated and exploited for the gain of a priveliged few. The question is , how long are we going to stand for it?

  16. PhotogGR8 says:
    August 25, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    I hope bank of America pulls this douche down with them.

  17. Ma Kettle says:
    August 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    Warren made $ 500,000,000 in an hour, after buying shares in BoA.

    It. Wasn’t. A. Plan. At. All.

    yup!

  18. Junius says:
    August 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    Sultan Barack Hussein ibn Obama seems to have a real taste for old very wealthy white men like Warren Buffoon and George Canker Soros. He’s always running after them with his tongue hanging out. He reminds me of all those gold digging women praying on old men. Sultan Obama is one very weird, closeted dude.

  19. JP says:
    August 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.
    Kinky Friedman; The Daily Beast

  20. crudcutter says:
    August 25, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Warren is old and probably a bit senile. Maybe one of his kids will do us all a favor and have him committed.

  21. S. Wolf says:
    August 25, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Buffett.. where’d I hear that name? Ah..

    ‘CNN likes to publish that Obama is playing it cool on investments, but you know this blog is not interested in the little black book CNN and others are looking at. This blog desires to see that little black book which Daddy Obamabucks does not show the IRS.

    You know the one with bank account deposits from the Muslim Brotherhood for giving them Egypt, the one from Iran in bribing Obama to keep the Jews from striking their nuclear program, the one from Hitler al Bashir of Sudan for Obama keeping the butcher of Christians in power, the one with the Sudan oil profits John Kerry negotiated for the Europeans, the one from British Petroleum in Obama getting the the Libyan oil, the one from George Soros in his becoming the 3rd largest food controller in America, the one from Warren Buffett for Obama letting him take over the oil transportation and food transportation game in that railroad…… you know those secret bank accounts which make a few million look like chump change.

    You really think that the Obama who looted over 13 trillion from the US Treasury for the 3rd world, the cartel in New York, the cartel in central Europe, did not get a cut out of that money game?

    Why the hell not just let your public black book investments stagnate in T bills, when you have the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Soros and Buffetts investing your money with their multi trillions in the new world order.

    Obama was guilty of insider trading in 2005. He should have been prosecuted and still should be prosecuted no matter the time which passes.

    I want the forensic bookkeepers to find the money trail of the Obama’s little black book he doesn’t show the IRS, but rolls around on with Reggie Love as they plan their getaway back to Whore Island.’

    http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2011/08/daddy-obamabucks.html

  22. LuckyX3 says:
    August 25, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    I hope Obama takes for every penny he has then we will see how smart he is.

  23. J in MS says:
    August 25, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    You don’t get as rich as him without knowing how to hide your assets. I can guarandamntee he still will pay less in taxes than his assistant after ‘soak the rich” goes into effect.

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