George Soros: Why I Gave

Washington Post ^ | 12/05/03 | George Soros

[Pokey78]

and a number of other wealthy Americans are contributing millions of dollars to grass-roots organizations engaged in the 2004 presidential election. We are deeply concerned with the direction in which the Bush administration is taking the United States and the world.

If Americans reject the president's policies at the polls, we can write off the Bush Doctrine as a temporary aberration and resume our rightful place in the world. If we endorse those policies, we shall have to live with the hostility of the world and endure a vicious cycle of escalating violence.

In this effort, I have committed $10 million to America Coming Together, a grass-roots get-out-the-vote operation, and $2.5 million to the MoveOn.org Voter Fund, a popular Internet advocacy group that is airing advertisements to highlight the administration's misdeeds. This is a pittance in comparison with money raised and spent by conservative groups.

[Alberta's Child]

What a laugh. The words "George Soros" and "grass-roots" do not belong in the same sentence.

[July 4th]

No kidding. If Soros is "grass-roots," so is everything else. Including Chinese military officials.

[AdamSelene235]

'I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance. I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes, or, even better, like Einstein.' -Soros

[pacpam]

I really can't imagine what his definition of 'resume our rightful place in the world', if Bush is defeated would be. Most of what I come up with makes me shudder. Until Bush I was seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' as a reality just around the corner.

[GeronL]

Our rightful place in the world is as Chief Target?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Soros gave at the office.

[thesummerwind]

The words "George Soros" and "grass-roots" do not belong in the same sentence.

But "George Soros" and "manure" belong in the same sentence. Right now, he and Hillary are the two largest opponents of this country. Conservatives have to stay awake, and fight this man and his evil ways. And Hillary, -------!

Although the "fertilizer" meaning of "manure" seems to fit all too well, as Soros "feeds" the Democrat effort to destroy G.W and the U.S.!

[thesummerwind]

Is Soros an American citizen?

[thesummerwind]

Free airtime for candidates is also important. This would reduce the cost of campaigns and the distorting effect of commercials.

Can't argue with that.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't think so. For some reason, I think he Romanian.

[neb52]

Hungarian I believe or Russian or some sort of Slavic origin. Are you thinking what I am thinking, that maybe a foreign national should not be manipulating OUR elections.

[wardaddy]

Hungarian born...family fled the Nazis.

He is a major enemy.

[thesummerwind]

I read that he's of Hungarian and Jewish roots. But I don't know if he's a citizen of the U.S.. I'll try to find out.

His history sure reeks.

[piasa]

fyi

[BlessedAmerican]

National Review online calls him a naturalized citizen, born in Hungary....

[wardaddy]

Associates said Soros´ appearance Nov. 5 was the first they could ever recall in which the billionaire, a Hungarian-born U.S. Jew who escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to London as a child, had spoken in front of a Jewish group or attended a Jewish function

[montag813]

Until Bush I was seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' as a reality just around the corner.

Funny, I still am seeing it just around the corner.