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Don’t Tell Michelle: Major Obama Donor Warren Buffett Calls War on Soda ‘Silly’ and Reveals the Way He Let Bloomberg Know

Oct. 29, 2012 9:11am Jonathon M. Seidl

He eats ice cream for breakfast. He likes red meat. And he admits he drinks about 60 oz. of Cherry Coke a day. The “he” is Obama superfan Warren Buffett. And while the billionaire is all in for Obama, he was candid on Wednesday about his criticisms of the latest health craze that has New York City banning sugary drinks over 16 ozs.

“In the end, I’ve elected to the foods to eat over the years that I like to eat and I think it’s kept me quite healthy,” Buffett said on CNBC last week. “If I’d been on broccoli and spinach, I would have been gone a long time ago.”

Buffett, by the way, owns holdings in both Dairy Queen and Coca-Cola.

“I drink about 60 oz, about 5 12 oz cans, of Cherry Coke a day,” he explained. “My doctor told me, ‘drink more liquids.’ I said, ‘how about Cherry Coke,’ and he said, ‘That’s fine.’”

As for Bloomberg, Buffett joked about a dinner he had recently with the mayor in which Buffett was sure to have a “great big bottle of Coke, the biggest bottle I could find” brought out so that he could drink it in front of Bloomberg.

“I wasn’t going to let him have any,” he chuckled.

(H/T: Omaha.com)

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Comments (32)

I Aint PC
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 9:05am
How is this for irony- the guy giving comments on how much he eats and drinks has the last name of an all-you-can-eat type of restaurant?

I know they are pronounced differently, but it is still funny.

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:44am
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/1/55.full

Elections have consequences.

If we do not petition those elected to represent us?

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voting-for-romney
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:37am
Big Fat Lies, learn the astonishing facts: Fat can be fit
by Glenn A. Gaesser, PHD
ISBN 0-449-90941-7

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republic2011
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:02am
Warren Buffet is a progressive snob. He wants to create an environment where he and his elite buddies can remain rich and no one else can climb the ladder. That’s why is such a strong Obama supporter.

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- GreatGrany54
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Boulder dash! He is nothing like a snob and how do I know? Why don’t you go to Omaha and check it out?
  
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- bullcrapbuster
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:25pm
  @rebublic…Right on. Buffett has the progressive gene disease.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 3:58pm
  Buffet wants everyone else to pay their taxes, but refuses to pay his own. That is a snob.
  I didn’t even have to go to Omaha to figure it out either!
  
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- michael48
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 5:45pm
  he’s the typical dem-wit..capitalist with HIS money…socialist with OURS….it’e easy to be the touchie/feelie twits these people are ..when it’s not thier money…
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 7:44pm
  no use going to omaha he is never there might try texas . the only reason he deals with obama is to make more money and pay no taxes. taxes are for the little people. ship oil from the dakotas on my train set . not in a pipe line that i dont own
  
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rdk
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:31am
And who was the prime source for all these healthy food and drink nonsensical rules? Was it not some lady with the first name of Michelle? Or is her first name ‘First” as in “First Lady”? Maybe she takes her first name too seriously.

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- Zurich
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:28am
  No, her name is actually “Fist Lady”, because you get into trouble if you don’t do what she wants you to do……
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:04am
Warren I used to think a lot more of you years ago but you had changed to a hard line democrat that hurt jobs to bring forth a hurtful healthcare plan. You are right that people should be in control of their own life no matter if drink or telling kids what to do. The ones that are overweight should be charged through their own healthcare plan at a higher rate but don’t punish those that do the right thing, Warren, keep changing and I may think a lot of you once more as a good advisor,

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Seede
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:44am
Bad signal to give youngsters. Just because Buffett got by with this is no sign that millions of overweight kids out there can do the same. Warren was born in 1930 and that places him at about 84 years old but is no sign that all people that do this can get by with it. It’s a very foolish thing to advise anyone to put that much sugar into their body. Stupid is what stupid does.

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- Tigress1
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:55am
  The PARENTS are the ones who should teach kids how to eat in a healthy way, not the GOVERNMENT.
  
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- Rampart
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:58am
  Yes…Yes…We should have the Federal Government police the sugar intake of all obese children…Heck, let’s just have them police ALL children.
  
  It’s for their own good, afterall.
  
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- MsMarylou8
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:59am
  Sweep your doorstep, I’ll sweep mine.
  
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- bobad
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 1:50pm
  @Rampart, maybe we should just threaten to make the government raise our children, including diapers, homework, and college tuition. I think they would back off real quick.
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:42am
I had to watch this because Glenn Beck just does not want to admit that Pat and Stu Ain’t Happening.
They just DO NOT FIT IN. Time to Join the OXY club and get to work Glenn. I think Pat and Stu are probably nice people. But nothing of where Glenn seeks to go Quality. I must speak the TRUTH. You cannot run a Successful Business with your Key People or Person missing as much work as Glenn does.

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- MsMarylou8
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:00am
  They all totally go together!
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 10:52am
  GOOD GRIEF! Speak for yourself. PAT and STU are incredibly talented and do a great job in support and creativity !
  
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- meisterman41
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Why are you dumping on Pat and Stu? They’re a team!
  
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TheMajority
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:39am
Buffett is silly to me, talking about soda pop, when—-.
NDAA and NDRPA are deadly.
The king of Capitalism, jumps in bed with golbal communists, helping them destroy our liberity, and may be even lose our lives.

Soda pop? Just stay out of it Buffett. You just as dangerous as any communist in the world.

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Salamander
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:37am
It must be nice to have so much that you don’t have to worry about the government taking it all away (or enough that it is YOU that have to undergo a lifestyle change to survive)! Me? I’m 65 and still struggling to assure that I’ll have enough that I don’t have some 22 year old beaurocrat deciding what medical care is in sufficient supply that ‘the people’ can afford to waste it on me! I’ll probably continue to work until I’m 70+ (a little underemployed–electrical engineer/MBA presently driving a truck to survive)! I don’t mind, but it sure seems like a waste to society! I wonder what ‘the real cost’ of underemployment is? It’s a ‘lost’ opportunity cost, which I guess is about as economically understandable as the ‘cost’ of a tax reduction or the ‘savings’ of a budget item that is INCREASED less than it’s baseline! Sheesh, almost as ‘honest’ as the lawyers’ ‘Code of Ethics’ (they don’t have one–rather they have a ‘Code of Professional Responsibility’, which has NOTHING to do with ethics! I wonder if doctors and engineers worked to a ‘Code of Professional Responsibilities’ (to themselves), rather than a ‘Code of Ethics’ (which is a standard for the benefit of the client they serve)!

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smokeysmoke
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:34am
THE FPOC cannot call someone else silly… thats why you are the FPOC WARREN BUFFET… aka DOUCHE

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:31am
even democrats are getting sick of democrats these days.

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Gonzo
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:18am
I hope you choke on it Buffett.

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:38am
  Exactly.
  
  Hey Bloomberg you dunce, you should have banned hurricanes.
  
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huey6367
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:18am
Buffett is a strange puppy

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biohazard23
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:15am
Cherry coke? I would have thought he was more of a Kool-Aid kinda guy….

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:44am
  LOL, that’s the true answer. Especially if he has stock in Kool-Aid.
  
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rockncoal
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:14am
This is one of the few times I agree with Buffet – Bloomberg is a horses ass!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:20am
  Amazing that at times even with the most fanatical of opposition there is some ground to agree upon. And yes Bloomburg is as you described him.
  
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