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He was one of Obama's first funders, advisers and public fundraisers, way back when Obama was still a senator. It is very unlikely that Obama would have become

He was one of Obama's first funders, advisers and public fundraisers, way back when Obama was still a senator. It is very unlikely that Obama would have become and then stayed president without Warren Buffett's initial and continued support. Warren Buffett is a liberal, very politically involved billionaire philanthropist, very much like George Soros, but with quite literally ten times as much money and political influence. Furthermore, he has promised to spend all of this money on fluffy liberal causes and social welfare programs and all sorts of other scary commie-sounding stuff before he dies. And he is very old. Yet, where the hell are all the Warren Buffett conspiracies? He must feel really left out.

philwelch 8y ago
It's easier for each side to have one designated boogeyman. Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel?
- starbeast 8y ago
  >Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel? I'm not sure they do. Mercer particularly is getting a lot of flack right now. I just find it slightly odd that people put George Soros up as some scary liberal billionaire kingmaker while completely and utterly ignoring an actual liberal billionaire kingmaker.
meowface 8y ago
Yes, Buffett is liberal and has donated to political candidates, but Soros funds a number of left-wing organizations, PACs, and movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_supported_by_George_Soros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_supported_by_... I have no issue with these organizations. I support many of them, and am left-wing and Jewish myself, but it's not a smear to say he's a significant backer of the causes of the left in the same way the Koch brothers are significant backers of the causes of the libertarian-right. Buffett isn't nearly as influential as Soros or the Koch brothers in terms of political spending. He has spent and is continuing to spend a lot on philanthropy, but not specifically to ideologically and overtly left-wing organizations, other than the kinds of donations almost all rich people make (for several reasons), like ones to prominent political candidates and the main two political parties.
- starbeast 8y ago
  >Buffett isn't nearly as influential as Soros or the Koch brothers in terms of political spending. He is the only one of those three to have successfully backed, funded, be the economic adviser for and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from, a two term US President. Also, he gives out vast amount of money, far more than Soros, mainly because he has far more money, to things ranging across a variety of progressive causes such as universal public health, refugee rights and support, sexual rights, family planning, and campaigning for global nuclear disarmament. He is every bit the activist politically involved liberal billionaire.
  - meowface 8y ago
    He spends more, but on different things than what Soros funds.

philwelch 8y ago

It's easier for each side to have one designated boogeyman. Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel?

starbeast 8y ago
>Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel? I'm not sure they do. Mercer particularly is getting a lot of flack right now. I just find it slightly odd that people put George Soros up as some scary liberal billionaire kingmaker while completely and utterly ignoring an actual liberal billionaire kingmaker.

meowface 8y ago

Yes, Buffett is liberal and has donated to political candidates, but Soros funds a number of left-wing organizations, PACs, and movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_supported_by_George_Soros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_supported_by_... I have no issue with these organizations. I support many of them, and am left-wing and Jewish myself, but it's not a smear to say he's a significant backer of the causes of the left in the same way the Koch brothers are significant backers of the causes of the libertarian-right. Buffett isn't nearly as influential as Soros or the Koch brothers in terms of political spending. He has spent and is continuing to spend a lot on philanthropy, but not specifically to ideologically and overtly left-wing organizations, other than the kinds of donations almost all rich people make (for several reasons), like ones to prominent political candidates and the main two political parties.

starbeast 8y ago
>Buffett isn't nearly as influential as Soros or the Koch brothers in terms of political spending. He is the only one of those three to have successfully backed, funded, be the economic adviser for and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from, a two term US President. Also, he gives out vast amount of money, far more than Soros, mainly because he has far more money, to things ranging across a variety of progressive causes such as universal public health, refugee rights and support, sexual rights, family planning, and campaigning for global nuclear disarmament. He is every bit the activist politically involved liberal billionaire.
- meowface 8y ago
  He spends more, but on different things than what Soros funds.