Posted on 01/24/2012 11:08:39 AM PST by Nachum
The Obama campaign has found its Joe the Plumber.
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night is expected to emphasize economic inequality, appropriately timed coming off the Occupy Wall Street fall leading up to Tuesday’s release of frequent Republican front-runner Mitt Romney’s tax returns which reveal that the multi-millionaire pays an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent. To hammer home the political game that the Obama campaign has been playing, billionaire Warren Buffett‘s longtime secretary will be joining first lady Michelle Obama in her seating section during tonight’s speech.
The guest choice is significant because Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, has become the embodiment of the Obama campaign’s central theme in 2012; appeal to middle-class populism disgusted by the excess of the “one percent” in the midst of economic distress.
The central discussion in politics over the summer revolved around the president’s failure to bring both sides together effectively during the debt-limit crisis and subsequent credit downgrade by Standard & Poors, all on top of continued high levels of unemployment and economic uncertainty well into the Democratic President’s first term. Then on August 14 came Buffett’s now infamous New York Times op-ed “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.”
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice,”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I wonder if Berkshire investors understand the political risk that Buffett has brought to the company?
Buffett’s “country cousin” routine has become a joke, and now he’s being recognized as the ultimate crony-capitalist.
I have to sort my sock drawer tonight.
If we had a second party, would have just had Obama send his remarks in writing and make them part of congressional record..No speech.
Has she released her tax returns?
Showcasing what the Obamas and the Buffet think is a poor little peon, .i.e. a billionaire's secretary, is indicative itself of how they think.
"Let's allow a little worker to sit with us for a photo op, we will look SO magnanimous.
He’ll have to leave the armrest up.
Why does the GOP always give in to Democrats when they have opportunities to control the message?
Will this show of "unity" extend into a Republican administration in 2013?
-PJ
Warren Buffetts secretary? I am betting is knocking down at least $200,000.00 a year at a minimum, certainly in another league from average secretaries, having the same responsibilities.
I am so tired of hearing this BS about “shared sacrifice”.
Let’s have a flat tax, no deductions, EVERYBODY pays the same rate. Period.
Fairly shared from the person making $100 to the person making $100 million.
If “all” Americans boycott the Obama SOTU address tonight, we will have no more use for Barack Hussein “Muslim Brotherhood Adoree” Obama!!! His Democrats can tell him to take a walk tomorrow morning, his services are no longer required. Now.....I know that will not happen, but....there will be at least two people in these United States of America, that will not be viewing the latest obama “Flim/Flam” con job this evening!!! My wife and me!!!
Hope millions of American join us, sending a message to the Democrat Party, that Obama and his wife Michelle need flushing down the toilet into the the cesspool of forever failure!!!
ping
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