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George Soros and Obama's veep
American Thinker ^ | 06/11/08 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/11/2008 7:26:50 AM PDT by coffee260

Soren Dayton of RedState notices that Barack Obama's choice of Jim Johnson to vet vice presidential choices is worse than previously understood:

...there is more on Johnson. In 2001, he joined Persueus LLC as a Vice Chairman. Perseus has a number of funds. Among them:

PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL FUND, L.P., which Perseus co-manages, was formed in 2000 with capital commitments totaling $449 million to make investments in life sciences companies

So Perseus is a business partner with George Soros. And Johnson is the Vice Chairman ...

Incidentally, as Say Anything Blog notes, Perseus also seems to own the publisher of the Scott McClellan book

So George Soros' business partner is helping select Obama's veep. How interesting that Obama just keeps coming up with friends (and appointees) with very dubious assocations.



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1 posted on 06/11/2008 7:26:50 AM PDT by coffee260
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To: coffee260

Obama is Soros’ puppet.


2 posted on 06/11/2008 7:29:10 AM PDT by avacado
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To: coffee260

I’ve been saying here for weeks that Obama is controlled by Soros.

How is Soros getting away with all of this? He is essentially trying to overthrow the American govt.


3 posted on 06/11/2008 7:30:20 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: coffee260
Obama is a wholly owned property of Soros et.al. Unfortunately, McCain is too.
4 posted on 06/11/2008 7:30:24 AM PDT by penowa
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To: AliVeritas; holdonnow; Miss Didi; STARWISE

Connections...connections..

I have this recurring thought that Obama, while certainly not stupid, may not fully realize who and what is behind his candidacy...(or maybe I’m the naive one).


5 posted on 06/11/2008 7:30:54 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: avacado
"Obama is Soros’ puppet."

Sock or meat ?

6 posted on 06/11/2008 7:31:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: SE Mom
Connections...connections...is right. Count on Rush to read this today—Lifson is one of his favorite columnists.
7 posted on 06/11/2008 7:32:44 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: coffee260
Puppet strings or not, Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

VOTE NOBAMANATION 2008

8 posted on 06/11/2008 7:33:49 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: coffee260

This is going to force Barry to throw Johnson under the bus. But he’ll just replace him with another Soros crony...... one with connections to Soros that aren’t so obvious.


9 posted on 06/11/2008 7:36:24 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: penowa

Thank you. Somebody had to say it.


10 posted on 06/11/2008 7:37:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I miss the days when only the politicians were unethical.)
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To: coffee260

11 posted on 06/11/2008 7:38:55 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: driftdiver
How is Soros getting away with all of this?

The MSM and the Chattering Class are all pulling for Obama. They are hard 60's socialists and Obama is one of their own.

12 posted on 06/11/2008 7:42:55 AM PDT by Obadiah (I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.)
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To: coffee260
Meantime, 90% of blacks and many white Obamabots don't want to know. They are mesmerized with the "Messiah" and don't care about his record, his associates, his leftist views/plans for America--just don't try to tell them because they do not want to know.

vaudine

13 posted on 06/11/2008 7:49:31 AM PDT by vaudine (RO)
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To: driftdiver
"How is Soros getting away with all of this? He is essentially trying to overthrow the American govt."

Well, who's going to stop him?  Based on what I read in FR, there are enough McCain haters to make Obama's fairy tale come true.

14 posted on 06/11/2008 7:49:39 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko
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To: Jeff Head
His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.
lol...
I've heard this about every presidential candidate since Ike. Fear mongering will not win this election. Get back to the limited government message or lose.
15 posted on 06/11/2008 7:53:08 AM PDT by radioman
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To: Obadiah

“The MSM and the Chattering Class are all pulling for Obama.”

I know, I just sometimes get frustrated at the hypocrisy they display on a daily basis.

The only thing socialism does well is get people killed.


16 posted on 06/11/2008 7:57:24 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: coffee260

Another great catch... God bless the internet and bloggers.


17 posted on 06/11/2008 8:16:26 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: driftdiver

How is Soros getting away with all of this? He is essentially trying to overthrow the American govt

He’s done it before in other countries. How old is he? He looks 90. Is he in good health, I want to know. But, I guess I’m dreaming he will not be with us long because he has friends to think the same as he so if we lose one there are others to replace him.


18 posted on 06/11/2008 8:18:06 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: radioman
I have not heard that message about every president, and I have been aorund for the same time frame...but that does not mean it is not so either way. Obama's own words and his associations shows in fact the apex of the hate-America far left in this country.

I can just as easily say to recognize that and get the word out...or lose.

I am getting the word out about his associations, his positions, and their potential impact in the best way I can and will continue to do so.

If the opposition or others want to call that fear mongering...fine...I will continue to get the word out. Others are free to get whatever word out they are inclined to disiminate. Between us, perhapos we can have an impact.

19 posted on 06/11/2008 8:20:34 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: NativeNewYorker

I hate to say it, but Soros is among the lesser of the evils who might be engineering the dim-witted Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama. I vacillate between Soros, the Chicago machine and, scarily, Islamo-fascists.

This is a presidential candidate who won’t release his birth certificate—hmmm what’s in a name? The presidential candidate who refuses to release his transcripts from Columbia University. The presidential candidate who refuses to release records from his stint in the Illinois senate. Does anyone else think this is unusual?

I disagree with those who think Obama is smart. I think Obama is a nefarious mock-up of the Jimmy Smits character on West Wing. We’re being bamboozled.


20 posted on 06/11/2008 8:21:00 AM PDT by Pinetop
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To: avacado

Obama is Soros’ puppet.

Most of the democrats are Soros’ puppets. Judases comes to mind when I think democrat. Selling their country and American people for continued money and support from Soros.


21 posted on 06/11/2008 8:21:16 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: coffee260; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave

22 posted on 06/11/2008 8:23:01 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: coffee260

Perseus connection.

Many, so many dots to connect ... and they all go back to puppet-master Soros. Wow. He’s behind Media Matters. He’s behind a number of 527s. He’s behind this.

Obama is no different from those Milli Vannili guys. He lip-synced a campaign produced by David Axelrod. Soros Productions is in charge.

If this was Star Wars, Soros would play the emperor.
I guess that makes Barack the Sith Lord Darth Obama.


23 posted on 06/11/2008 8:27:27 AM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - co-bloggers wanted!)
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To: HawaiianGecko

“Based on what I read in FR, there are enough McCain haters to make Obama’s fairy tale come true. “

Yup.


24 posted on 06/11/2008 8:28:40 AM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - co-bloggers wanted!)
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To: WOSG

Darth Obama, that is about as accurate as it gets.


25 posted on 06/11/2008 8:32:22 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Obadiah

The only pundit/journalist I know of that has criticized Soros has been Bill O’Reilly.


26 posted on 06/11/2008 8:38:37 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: coffee260
So George Soros' business partner is helping select Obama's veep. How interesting that Obama just keeps coming up with friends (and appointees) with very dubious associations.

What's that saying again about 'Glass Houses'?? Soros and 'very dubious associations' cuts both ways.

Senator Juan McAmnesty is also funded by Soros (search FR for info). And as to "very dubious associations" one can't get any more dubious than Juan McAmnesty's 'Hispanic Outreach' point man, Señor Juan Hernandez - a dual nationality MEXICAN who was in the Vicente Fox administration. Hernandez believes in NO BORDERS and complete amnesty for all illegals.

Oh, and Juan Hernandez's favorite phrase is "My Friend(s)". Whatta coincidence he's on McAmnesty's staff, my friend. /s

27 posted on 06/11/2008 8:57:12 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Jeff Head
Between us, perhapos we can have an impact.

Doubtful but sure no harm in trying. We've abandoned the limited government platform and that is the only platform that the RP can win on. It's just a simple fact that there are more Democrats than Republicans.

Republicans can't win nationally without libertarian votes.
Libertarians have abandoned the party...Good luck in November!
.
28 posted on 06/11/2008 9:20:22 AM PDT by radioman
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To: SE Mom

Rush covering this as we speak...


29 posted on 06/11/2008 9:26:43 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: radioman
I believe that the real issue is in your first statement...to whit:

We've abandoned the limited government platform and that is the only platform the RP can win on.

Just the same, I believe we must do all we can to defeat Obama because his positions on all issues are far, far worse than the bad positions of McCain in the areas where he errs...and those are significant areas.

My vote will be much, much more against Obama than it is for McCain.

God's speed.

30 posted on 06/11/2008 9:29:22 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: coffee260

It’s not wise for a man to desire too much fame too much power or too much wealth, he may become a slave to any.


31 posted on 06/11/2008 9:33:34 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Marriage=One man+One woman! Vote to amend the California State Constitution this November.)
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To: Miss Didi

working..lurking...

thanks:)


32 posted on 06/11/2008 9:36:24 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom
Rush just said that the Drive-Bys are trying to make their wonder boy appear less radical and will demonize the Repubs already for any attacks on Barry and his associates. They used a recent quote from Frank Luntz who said that he really hopes that the Repubs don't attack Mrs. O. Hmm...does Frank know something, too?
33 posted on 06/11/2008 9:50:05 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Jeff Head
My vote will be much, much more against Obama than it is for McCain
That's where we differ. I never vote against. I always vote for. If I haven't got a candidate to vote for I don't vote. Voting for the lesser of two evils is the reason the Jews of Berlin voted for Hitler...the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.

God's speed to you too.

34 posted on 06/11/2008 10:16:03 AM PDT by radioman
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To: driftdiver
How is Soros getting away with all of this?

He plays on both sides of the street. He has contributed to John McCain since 2001.
Many Republicans are on the Soros list.

35 posted on 06/11/2008 10:19:14 AM PDT by radioman
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To: coffee260

**Perseus also seems to own the publisher of the Scott McClellan book**

LOL! Gotta love it when the truth comes out.


36 posted on 06/11/2008 10:26:07 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Beckwith; Fred Nerks; Candor7

” just as Tony Rezko helped Obama with a sweetheart deal to buy his house, Countywide Financial, which Obama rails against, helped Johnson buy his.

But there is more on Johnson. In 2001, he joined Persueus LLC as a Vice Chairman..”


37 posted on 06/11/2008 10:27:06 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: SE Mom

I know ... I get luciferian imaginings ... because he just hasn’t struck me as that calculating .. then I hit myself side my head. But I’m still ever confused, diverted and bewildered by his distractions/contradictions.

I think Michelle is a real viper/operator and that Soros actually IS this nation’s electoral puppeteer, funding ALL the candidates through whatever stealth means at his disposal, from behind the curtain.

Obama brags about not taking money from lobbyists and special interests and it’s all the “little people,” but you know that’s just a pile of BS. There’ve been been many descriptions of how 501(c)3’s could have their groups send in individual small donations to conceal the special interest group.

It’s all doable today with Visa cash cards and internet commerce. I would bet if someone did a detailed investigation of all the donors to Obama, McCain and Clinton, we’d find a pile of suspicious connections.


38 posted on 06/11/2008 11:28:15 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: SE Mom; Bahbah; Bitsy; radioman; Miss Didi; All

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/10/post_67.html

“...Hillary declared, “We are... putting together a network in the blogosphere”. She attributed its success to the efforts of “institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress...”

With these words, Hillary confessed to a federal crime. Both groups are supposedly “non-partisan”, 501(c)3 tax-free organizations, strictly prohibited from coordinating efforts with a national political candidate such as Hillary.

More importantly, the two groups Hillary mentioned are deeply implicated in Bloggergate. Democrat billionaire George Soros launched the Center for American Progress in 2003 with a $3 million donation. The Center subsequently launched Media Matters for America in May 2004, which in turn launched the Center for Independent Media (CIM) in April 2006.

CIM tax filings bear the same address as Media Matters in Washington, DC.

The Center for Independent Media awards “fellowships” to leftwing bloggers, including cash subsidies, free legal service, free access to LexisNexis database searches and more. Its founder, President and CEO is none other than David Bennahum.

Bennahum helped found Media Matters, where he served as one of its original senior fellows.

On January 27, 1998 - ten days after Matt Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story - Hillary Clinton told reporters at a White House press conference that the Internet needed an “editing function or gatekeeping function”.

With the help of David Bennahum and others, Hillary may finally achieve her goal.”


39 posted on 06/11/2008 12:33:30 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
free access to LexisNexis database searches and more.

Is there no Republican willing to offer the same for Conservative bloggers?
40 posted on 06/11/2008 12:58:18 PM PDT by radioman
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To: coffee260
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute, Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation, several other non-profits.  CapnsQtrs  Malkin WND  Contains information on Juan Hernandez and numerous McCain Campaign staff from 2000, that found potitions at the Reform Institute  Contains information on who funded McCain's efforts on Campaign Finance Reform, Comprehansive Immigration Reform, and a number of Global Warming bills.

Please review this material.

41 posted on 07/01/2008 3:21:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: coffee260; All
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute, Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation, several other non-profits.  CapnsQtrs  Malkin WND  Contains information on Juan Hernandez and numerous McCain Campaign staff from 2000, that found potitions at the Reform Institute  Contains information on who funded McCain's efforts on Campaign Finance Reform, Comprehansive Immigration Reform, and a number of Global Warming bills.

Please review this material.

42 posted on 07/01/2008 3:21:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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