Hillary Clinton’s Mega-Donors Are Also Funding Jeb Bush

[John Poet]

Racetrack owners, bankers, and chicken kings: Meet the ultra-rich bankrolling the Bush and Clinton dynasties. A special report by Vocativ and The Daily Beast.

For some wealthy donors, it doesn’t matter who takes the White House in 2016—as long as the president’s name is Clinton or Bush.

More than 60 ultra-rich Americans have contributed to both Jeb Bush’s and Hillary Clinton’s federal campaigns, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by Vocativ and The Daily Beast. Seventeen of those contributors have gone one step further and opened their wallets to fund both Bush’s and Clinton’s 2016 ambitions.

After all, why support just Hillary Clinton or just Jeb Bush when you can hedge your bets and donate to both? This seems to be the thinking of a group of powerful men and women—racetrack owners, bankers, media barons, chicken magnates, hedge funders (and their spouses). Some of them have net worths that can eclipse the GDPs of small countries.

Read more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/04/hillary-clinton-s-mega-donors-are-also-funding-jeb-bush.html


Well, at least they're keeping it all in the family...
http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/07/12/george-w-bush-bill-clinton-comment-possible-family-feud-2016/

[Ino]

1. Yup... buy them both.

After all, Greenspan called Bill Clinton the best Republican president we've ever had. Having Hillary as the Dem nominee is a win-win for the ultra-rich.

[Live and Learn]

2. What a surprise.

Kinda like hedging you bets.

[bvf]

6. Exactly. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

3. The Fix is in

[Uncle Joe]

4. The oligarchs are trying to reestablish royalty in the U.S.

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It's kind of ironic as our nation's labor pains were tied to rebelling against a King or Queen.

The oligarchs, mega-corporations and their corporate media mouth pieces have done everything in their power to keep a Bush or Clinton front and center in the nation's consciousness.

Since 1980 until 2016 in ten Presidential Elections a Bush or Clinton has been running or elected at the top or second place on the ticket 9 times, and this from a nation of over 300 million people, what are the odds of that happening without major corporate media propaganda manipulation taking place?

That's what mega-bucks buys you.

Thanks for the thread, John Poet.

[hifiguy]

37. Since they can't have a king or a President For Life,

the "aristocrats" (read the plutocrats/tenth-percenters) have created a process by which they designate a king for at least four years and have nearly complete control of the process.

[peacebird]

5. Let's really annoy them by electing Bernie!

[Live and Learn]

8. +1 Nobody I know wants either one. nt

[tecelote]

9. Imagine... a President that isn't bought and paid for by corporate America.

Imagine... a President truly elected by the people.

Bernie has my vote because he is the only one that is trustworthy and running on his own ideals. Agree with him or not, he is the only real voice out there. The rest are just echos of corporate America.

[CharlotteVale]

7. Buy one, collect 'em all.

[bigwillq]

10. No more Clinton. No more Bush.

No more Biden.

[billhicks76]

11. Hope This Doesn't Surprise Anyone

The Clintons are declared honorary Bush Family members, a rare title. They have colluded for decades.

[hifiguy]

35. It's true, and if there is a more damning thing that can be said

about anyone than that, it's hard to imagine what it might be.

Yet this undeniable fact bounces off the zombies and Clinton cultists like a spitball off of a tank.

[billhicks76]

45. They Ignore Like Republicans Do

Facts don't matter. Living in a comfortable bubble does. Who cares if their military, NSA and Police plans are the same. Just be a good American and do what you're told.

[dorkzilla]

12. No surprise at all; a great deal of wealthy people give to both sides

It's called hedging your best. No surprises there.

[RoccoR5955]

13. JEB= Just Elect Bernie! n/t

[hueymahl]

27. I like that!

[marble falls]

14. They're hedging their bets/hedge funding. Another reason a Clinton/Bush race would supress voting...

and keep Congress useless if not worse.

Bernie is the best choice.

[Indepatriot]

15. I'm sure this is just a coincidence......

Besides, "It's all perfectly legal"....

[davidpdx]

16. No surprise

I'm sure this will be labeled "Clinton bashing" any moment now. Facts speak louder than words.

[Scuba]

17. Anybody surprised?

[Enthusiast]

18. Not me.

[Fred Sanders]

19. That is enough evidence for me! They must be exactly the same, except for all the things they are not

Which is mostly everything!

The logic of some people......and the amnesia....and the forwarding of memes and themes against the Democratic Party front runner by other members of the same Party...who needs Republican and corporate media attacks?

[cali]

40. strawman

No one is saying they're the same. What is being said is that it isn't insignificant that these people are comfortable with both candidates

[Vinca]

20. The plan is to buy the candidate. The party doesn't matter. It's disgusting.

Another reason I'm supporting Bernie.

[raouldukelives]

21. We live in the most democracy allowed by corporatists.

Those who place the needs of themselves and the needs of corporations above the needs of their neighbors and of the quickly dwindling natural world we all rely on.

They know full well Wall St is distorting and deceiving our electorate and elections and yet they could care less. For them, cash is king and democracy is just a word.

[Broward]

22. Hillary v. Jeb - the wealthy can't lose.

[liberal N proud]

23. This is nothing new

They all hedge their bets and bet on both horses in the race.

[merrily]

25. Nothing new, yet it stinks every time, but especially when running on getting $$ out of politics.

[merrily]

24. Bipartisan dynastic donating. What could possibly be more American?

[hifiguy]

34. Substitute "bribery"for "donating"

and there you are!

[merrily]

36. "Bribe" isn't a synonym for large political donation?

It's just good citizens donating big bucks to BOTH sides because.....America?

[PatrickforO]

26. Sure they are! To the neoliberal elite, one puppet is as good as another.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_great_unraveling_20150830. Here's what Chris Hedges has to say about our capitalist utopia.

[leftofcool]

28. Good Gawd! Wealthy people have always given to both sides.

[Ed Suspicious]

30. Why is that? What might be unsavory about that?

[Uncle Joe]

31. Why!? Because we like you!!

And we want you to like us too!!

Signed,
Oligarchs and Mega Corps

[WillyT]

29. K & R !!!

[antigop]

32. oh, big surprise there! NOT! nt

[hifiguy]

33. Everyone who is surprised by this stand on your head...

Which strongly suggests that the actual difference between them is a space you could barely squeeze a nanotube through.

Wake up, people, you're being royally scammed. Again.

[Puzzledtraveller]

39. It's sufficient for many to just support the brand

the team logo, mascot what have you. It' become a spectator sport not unlike the NFL. At least with the NFL and the like you know what their motive is and you know that all the teams and their handlers have the same goal in mind. But in the game of two party politics we somehow think that there is a substantive divergence between the two. Laughable, the higher you go, the more similar they become.

[hifiguy]

41. Yep. And that's the biggest problem.

Jerry Seinfeld called it "rooting for laundry."

And that's exactly why it is getting so intolerably hot in this handbasket.

[Puzzledtraveller]

38. It's called hedging their bets.

No matter who wins, they win.

[ismnotwasm]

42. Yawn

[Thinkingabout]

43. Some votes can be bought with a $18,000 donation against their opponent.

[reddread]

44. Clinton/Bush 2016

Because America needs more of the same!