Carl Icahn: Obama "Would Be A Terrible President"

Bloomberg:

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Barack Obama would be a ``terrible'' U.S. president whose election would bring higher interest rates and a loss of international confidence in the dollar.

``I don't normally get involved in politics, but this time I am,'' Icahn told an investors conference in New York last night. ``I don't think Obama really understands economics.''

The Illinois senator is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama has 1,962 delegates, according to an Associated Press tally, putting him 64 delegates shy of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination.

``I personally think he would be a terrible president,'' Icahn, 72, said. Obama would probably go on a ``huge spending spree'' that ``the country can't afford right now.''

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[FogBelter]

"I personally think he would be a terrible president,'' Icahn, 72, said. Obama would probably go on a ``huge spending spree'' that ``the country can't afford right now.''

Icahn can say this with a straight face when the Friedman policies that enriched him for the past 28 years simultaneously bankrupted the United States and brought us to the financial precipice our nation finds itself before? This old man has no credibility on the subject of what is sound financial policy for the United States, and should keep his mutterings to himself

[DrVeruju]

Amen

[ProfessorDuh]

And amen again.

[heal57]

Mr. Icahn, what's that matter? Are You afraid Senator Obama's adminisration must put a little ripple in your greed, and not give you those whopping tax cuts? Go buy another company and then fire everyone and get cheap labor overseas. Hopefully, you won't be able to do this much longer. And may I say YOU ARE NO WARREN BUFFET!


Independent for Obama '08

[UncensoredReports]

I say YOU ARE NO WARREN BUFFET!

Why?
Is it because Mr. Icahn wasn't involved in 9/11?
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBS_enUS276&q=WARREN+BUFFET+involvement+9%2f11

OH, & look at what comes up as #1
Bush and Buffett were in Cahoots on 911

[Rendon76]

He'd be terrible because he'd take away your Bush Tax Cuts for the rich Mr. Fat Cat.

[HBeachbum]

Why do you libtards always lie about the tax cuts? The cuts were for EVERY TAXPAYER, not just the "rich". And the high-end earners got a lower percentage cut than did the middle-class. Quit your jealous bitching.

[CindyKay]

Your Head is still stuck in Your Arse , Pull It Out.

[Xysea]

lol Okay. It's not just the red fuzz that gives it away; you drank the kool aid, didn't you?

[alexcharner]

Thank you Mr. Icahn.

You just strengthened my resolve. I won't sleep until our next President, Barack Obama takes charge and proves you wrong.

Go take over a company and lay off a million workers. We don't need you.

[UncensoredReports]

I won't sleep.....

I'd have to say that's an obvious lie.

[UncensoredReports]

Notice how NO ONE wants to debate Obama's support for war.
The best you could say is he wants to move it around a little bit & start new ones.
FACTS are FACTS.

[UncensoredReports]

HMMMMM,

ANYONE?

[UncensoredReports]

So remind me WHY Obama is hyped as a man of Peace?

[julescator]

Obama never said he was against war if America was threatened. He said he was against this ridiculous trumped up war. There is a difference. He is right. We should be talking to Pakistan about Bin Laden and beefing up troops in Afghanistan. It's obvious that we LOST the oil war in Iraq. Explain how paying $24 a barrel for oil at the start of the war in Iraq and spending $133 a barrel now is winning? All we are doing is politically strenthening Iraq and making them wealthier in the process.

[UsofA]

Why a "terrible President" Mr. Icahn? Is it because with Obama, your unregulated greed may at long last be scrutinized? And the thousands you've put out of work may begin finding their voices?

[UncensoredReports]

I believe Obama supporters are in for a major shock after the primaries are over.

[vandegrasse]

You need a facelift!

Tommy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=28dMYAxHIH4

[RobinL]

Yeah---well, there's going to be more than one rich billionaire singing that tune. They've had a field day with Bush!

[UncensoredReports]

After all the complaints posters have made about voting being rigged & the MSM being controlled remember, THIS is the SAME rigged system that put bush & cheney in the whitehouse (only even more corrupted now than it was then) & now it supports obama, hillary & mccain.

[noamjunior]

yea- fox news is really supporting Obama.
how are things at RNC headquarters?

[UncensoredReports]

Too bad you don't have the intelligence to recognize reverse psychology.

I suppose that they NEVER say ANYTHING about Obama on fox news.

AS IF.
From what I have been told, they SWAMP fox news with Obama.

You hear them talking about IMPEACHMENT ( KUCINICH ) or abolishment of the federal reserve ( Ron Paul ) on your fox news?

[UncensoredReports]

Obama "Would Be A Terrible President"

DUH!
The lack of confidence in the dollar is due to the fact that the federal reserve is printing them out 24/7.

That's also one of the basic methods the federal reserve used to cause the great depression.

[GrandpaMcCain]

"...a loss of international confidence in the dollar." Uh, Carl. Jackass. It's not possible for the international confidence in the dollar to go any LOWER than it has under the Bush Reich.

[ErnestineBass]

Yep. The dollar is sinkin' like catfish sh!t...heh heh

[ErnestineBass]

Men like Icahn create nothing but personal wealth.

No jobs.

No products.

Nothing for anyone but themselves.

[GrandpaMcCain]

I think that's the new GOP slogan, since they got embarrassed for trying to use one that's already being used by an anti-depressant. "No jobs. No products. Nothing for anything but us."

[ErnestineBass]

HOWDY, Grandpa! How you been, darlin'?
Wanna have some fun? Check out pennstate1143. Best new troll on HuffPo in months.

[evekendall]

"No jobs. No products. Nothing for anything but us."

I love it!

[GrandpaMcCain]

*that should be "Nothing for anyone but us."

[lyingtruth]

Icahn is a bottom feeding, greed ridden pig. His prediction that Obama would go on a spending spree means; Obama would spend more on Americans who need it and give less tax breaks and subsidies to individuals and corporations who don't need them!

[noamjunior]

yea Ichahn is pretty much a tool who thinks his money can substitute for a complete lack of insight into anything other than the best way to rip peoplr off

[UncensoredReports]

& you KNOW this because why?
Did he PROMISE that & if so was it before or after he PROMISED NO VOTES FOR WAR FUNDING?
BTW: have you seen how many times Obama has voted for war funding after promising not to?

Obama would spend more on Americans who need it and give less tax breaks and subsidies to individuals and corporations who don't need them!
Would that be part of his escalation in Afghanistan? Or his new war in Pakistan?

[Tropiholic]

wow "uncensored" are you a bore or what?

[e2008usa]

WHY NOT TALK ABOUT THE WORLD RICHEST MULTI BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett, ENDORSING BARACK OBAMA.... SO Why talking about the Blllionaire Icahnw wich INTERESTS are not PEOPLES INTERESTS.......... WARREN BUFFELT .... WORLD RICHEST MULTI BILLIONAIR ENDORSE OBAMA

[BWonka]

Well, duh - what else would you expect from someone who wants his tax cuts to continue.

GOP = Greed Over Principles.

[factanonverba]

Carl Icahn is not a member of the GOP. He has given to both parties. In fact, he has given more to the Democratic Party than the GOP. In 2004, he gave $50,000 to Congressional Democratics and only $25,500 to GOP Congressional Republicans.

Also Ed Koch will not vote for Obama. Ed Koch Interview

Obama can not win.

[Kalima]

Two people who will not vote for Obama, so he will lose?
I thought I'd heard it all.

[GrandpaMcCain]

Ed Koch? Oh, yeah, that's really something. He has all the political pull of a janitor.

[Cyndee1113]

factanonverba ,

Who the heck is has been Ed. Koch? Carl Icahn is no one either. Obama has endorsement up the butt. He will never have everyone. You pick two stupid old has beens and now he cannot win. Give me a break!

[JhNyc]

Ed Koch has fulfilled what must have been his childhood dream -- to become a clown.