George Clooney, Host of the $350,000 Clinton Dinner, Calls it "an Obscene Amount of Money" - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/george-clooney-fundraisers-money-politics-ridiculous-n557116[/URL] [quote]George Clooney may be helping Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raise millions for her campaign and for her party this weekend — but he agrees with her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, on one point. Sanders has criticized such fundraisers as "obscene." When asked by "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd to respond to Sanders' criticism of the fundraisers he is holding for Clinton, the actor and activist responded, "Yes. I think it's an obscene amount of money ... The Sanders campaign, when they talk about it is absolutely right. It's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree completely." On Friday night, Clooney co-chaired an event in San Francisco to raise money for the Hilary Victory Fund. To get a seat at a roundtable with George Clooney, his wife Amal and Hillary Clinton, as well as a prime spot at the dinner, a couple would've had to pay or raise $353,400. Clinton's Friday night fundraiser at the home of venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar was protested by a small but vocal group of Sanders' supporters. Clooney, engaged briefly with the protesters and later told NBC News, "They're right to protest. They're absolutely right. It's an obscene amount of money."[/quote] Video of the interview in the source.

c'mon clooney, you know you want to ditch hillary

Then how about you don't subscribe to literally laundering money through a network of state and local parties to donate to her warchesr

you get the feeling he's being forced to "donate" to these things now.

[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;50148911]you get the feeling he's being forced to "donate" to these things now.[/QUOTE] Well the dilema is if that victory fund is what keeps Trump out of the WH then it's better to have it than not, but the moral argument about being complicid in laundering money for political donors is that it's all quite wrong. It's why no campaign finance reform can ever hold up, because they want the money more than they want the moral high road

It's the Jews man [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Starpluck))[/highlight]

Even if he supports Hill, I still think he's a pretty amazing person and does wonderful work around the world. Sadly the rabid parts of the "Bernie Squad" are going to try and make Clooney seem like a total scumbag.

What makes this so stunning is not the obscene amount of money— but the fact that George Clooney agreed to this. If you even just cursorily looked at Clooney's politics and stances— you would find he is a lot more politically-aligned with Bernie Sanders and the values he represent.

[QUOTE=Starpluck;50149259]What makes this so stunning is not the obscene amount of money— but the fact that George Clooney agreed to this. If you even just cursorily looked at Clooney's politics and stances— you would find he is a lot more politically-aligned with Bernie Sanders and the values he represent.[/QUOTE] Maybe his wife has him by the balls for supporting Hillary? It's the only thing that makes sense to me, I mean why would you go against your own beliefs if not trying to uphold a loved one's?

Maybe Hillary has a network of spies who collect intelligence on celebrities and then extort money from them through blackmail? At this point in the campaign she could be linked to such a plot and still her uninformed voters would voter for her

[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;50149267]Maybe his wife has him by the balls for supporting Hillary? It's the only thing that makes sense to me, I mean why would you go against your own beliefs if not trying to uphold a loved one's?[/QUOTE] Hillary's campaign made the better offer, and these sorts of things are about business, not ideals.

If you read the full transcript or saw the interview, this article and associated clip does a wonderful job of leaving out the part where he actually explains his position. [QUOTE]But, you know, I think what's important and what I think the Clinton campaign has not been very good at explaining is this and this is the truth: the overwhelming amount of money that we're raising, and it is a lot, but the overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising, is not going to Hillary to run for President, it's going to the down-ticket. It's going to the congressmen and senators to try to take back Congress. And the reason that's important and the reason it's important to me is because we need, I'm a Democrat so if you're a Republican, you're going to disagree but we need to take the senate back because [B]we need to confirm the Supreme Court justice because that fifth vote on the Supreme Court can overturn Citizens United and get this obscene, ridiculous amount of money out so I never have to do a fundraiser again. And that's why I'm doing it. [/B] [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] The Panama papers have been actually incredibly helpful. We have forensic accountants so this is all a very big part of things that are important to me.[B] I really want Citizens United. I think it's the worst, one of the worst laws passed, since I've been around. [/B] [/QUOTE] More revealing [QUOTE] [I]CHUCK TODD: [/I] You actually have plenty of nice things to say about Bernie Sanders. I think you did an interview with TheGuardian where you said you like the issues he was bringing up, you thought he was actually pushing Hillary Clinton in a certain way. I am curious; why did you pick Clinton over Sanders? [I]GEORGE CLOONEY: [/I] Well, I've worked with Secretary Clinton as Secretary particularly when the Sudan and South Sudan were looking to vote for their own independence and it was an incredibly dangerous time for that country. And there were, you know, hundreds of thousands of people's lives at risk. And between the Secretary and the Security Council and some of the people on the ground and Kofi Anan and Jimmy Carter and people like that and thousands of people on the ground, we worked very hard to make sure that that didn't happen. She understood it. She understood the issues even though we don't have any great reason to pay much attention to Sudan. We don't trade with them. We don't get money from them. I found her to know, to be knowledgeable and to be-- and to care about the issues. And we've worked together since then and I've been a very big fan of hers.[B] But I want to say this: I really like Bernie. I think what he's saying in this election is important if you're a Democrat. Again to have these conversations, I hope he stays in for the entire election and if he were to win the nomination, I will do whatever I can including if asked a fundraiser like this again to try to give him[/B] or her, Hillary, I hope she wins a Senate because honestly we see what happens when a President tries to get their Supreme Court justice confirmed without the Senate. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;50149327]Hillary's campaign made the better offer, and these sorts of things are about business, not ideals.[/QUOTE] George Clooney was not 'bought' — he wouldn't accept a payment to root for one candidate over the other.

I would love to believe that Hildog will overturn Citizens United. I just doubt it because of how much it benefits her.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;50150066]I would love to believe that Hildog will overturn Citizens United. I just doubt it because of how much it benefits her.[/QUOTE] Obama is strongly considering to create an executive order forcing disclosure of All of the trail that comes to the campaign finances. If she doens't fully promise to do it, I think Obama will do it.

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Release the menu hillary also he hopes sanders stays in the race [url]http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clooney-hopes-sander-stays-in-222055[/url]