What kind of publisher gives an unknown a book deal to write TWO autobiographies before he’s done anything? And the Grammys awarded him “best spoken word” recording for his book on tape (that category has been a liberal pat on the back for over 15 years).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album
Grammy Awards of 2008
Barack Obama for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Grammy Awards of 2007
Jimmy Carter for Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis;
and
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee for With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (Tie)
Grammy Awards of 2006
Barack Obama for Dreams from My Father
Grammy Awards of 2005
Bill Clinton for My Life
Grammy Awards of 2004
Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Grammy Awards of 2003
Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Grammy Awards of 2002
Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Grammy Awards of 2001
Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Grammy Awards of 2000
LeVar Burton for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Grammy Awards of 1999
Christopher Reeve for Still Me
Grammy Awards of 1998
Charles Kuralt for Charles Kuralt’s Spring
Grammy Awards of 1997
Hillary Rodham Clinton for It Takes a Village
Grammy Awards of 1996
Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman
Grammy Awards of 1995
Henry Rollins for Get in the Van
Grammy Awards of 1994
Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning
Grammy Awards of 1993
Earvin “Magic” Johnson & Robert O’Keefe for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
“2. The very first (oldest) entry for Soros’ contributions is to John McCain in 1999.”
Not true. Soros has made contributions at least starting in the late 1970s when campaign finance reporting started, including a donation to one George H.W. Bush. His contibution to McCain signified the same thing as his to Bush - an attempt to thwart Reagan in 1980 and George W. Bush in 2000 in the GOP primaries. Nothing more.
We needn’t delude ourselves that he wanted either G.H.W. Bush or John McCain as President. He didn’t.