The Soros Threat

The American Enterprise ^ | 12/20/03 | James K. Glassman

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Forward Observer
By James K. Glassman

The Soros Threat

George Soros, the 38th richest person in the world according to Forbes, says that defeating President George W. Bush in 2004 is "the central focus of my life." In an eye-popping interview recently with the Washington Post, he argued that "America under Bush is a danger to the world."

"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans." It evokes memories, he says, of the Nazi rhetoric of his childhood in Hungary.

This wild antipathy toward the President is making Soros--who earned his $7 billion as a hedge-fund buccaneer--the single biggest funder of efforts to get Bush out of the White House. The Post figures he has spent over $15 million so far, and he is ready to give more. The 2004 Presidential race, he told the Post, is "a matter of life and death."

In early November, Soros and a partner donated $5 million to the liberal, anti-Bush MoveOn.org. He also gave $10 million to a similar organization, America Coming Together, which aims to mobilize voters in 17 battleground states. And he has promised $3 million to the
Center for American Progress, a new Democratic think tank started by former Clinton aide John Podesta.

Soros has always fancied himself an intellectual as well as a moneymaker, and he wants desperately to be taken seriously.
His first attempt came in 1997 with a weird, discursive article in the Atlantic Monthly called "The Capitalist Threat." He argued that "the spread of market values into all areas of life" is now the main threat to "open and democratic society."

The man-bites-dog nature of the anticapitalist article from the capitalist mogul brought it attention, but it was so appallingly stupid that it provoked the ire of even the typically mild-mannered, centrist journalist Robert Samuelson of Newsweek. He called Soros "a crackpot" and his essay "gibberish" akin to the "Unabomber's manifesto in its sweeping, unsupported, and disconnected generalizations."

Now Soros is back in the Atlantic with a piece called "The Bubble of
American Supremacy." Here the problem is not so much incoherence as hysteria: "The Bush administration proceeded to exploit the terrorist attack for its own purposes," he writes of the 9/11 terrorist murder of innocents. "It fostered the fear that has gripped the country…and it used the war on terrorism to execute an agenda of American supremacy."

What does Soros propose? Not military action, but "preventive action of a constructive and affirmative nature. Increased foreign aid or better or fairer trade rules," and, of course, "international cooperation."

All of this would be harmless if Soros didn't have billions to spend and the intention to manipulate our politics with them. In the past, it was enough for him to lavish money on leftish causes like drug legalization through the Soros Foundations Network. But a more strident, ideological tone has now become evident.

Soros dubbed his main charity the "Open Society Institute," a reference to the 1945 book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, by Karl Popper (1902-94), who was driven out of his native Austria by the
Nazis. Popper's ideas are complicated, but he stood for what Jonathan Rauch, in a perceptive essay following 9/11, called a free society's "irrepressible effervescence and astonishing durability." These truly are American traits, and ones that the Bush administration has tried to preserve and promote through the kinds of activities that Soros appears to detest: tax cuts, regulatory restraint, and yes, overthrowing tyrants in other parts of the world.

There is irony in Soros's simultaneous embrace of Popper and of the American Left. And hypocrisy in his attitude toward campaign finance regulation: In his foundation's annual report, Soros lauds the McCain-Feingold law limiting donations as an antidote to "a fundamental crisis in democratic self-government." Yet he pours millions into a loophole that lets nonparty groups accept funds without limit.

Let me be clear: Soros earned his money, and he can spend it on whatever he wants. What concerns me is the monstrous hatred Soros has developed toward the President of the United States--hatred shared by others in his social circle.

My guess is that the $15 million Soros has spent is just the beginning. Most voters are blessedly immune to dumb arguments even when they are well-funded. Nevertheless, it would be foolish to take Soros lightly. He is emerging as a great threat not just to the re-election of George Bush, but to our truly open society as well.

[Grampa Dave]

An excellent and short summary on $oreA$$!

[Grampa Dave]

Notice who presents, Howard the Dean? None other than George $oreA$$. He probably bankrolled two other unknown governors who hated America into being our Presidents, Carter and Clintoon.

[Grampa Dave]

For more on the illegal involvement of $oreA$$ in helping Canada and ? to fund the Dean and Clark campaigns go to the story/link below.

"Brewing MoveOn Scandal Over Foreign Contributions Involves Dean, Clark Campaigns"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042082/posts

Brewing MoveOn Scandal Over Foreign Contributions Involves Dean, Clark Campaigns
Talon News / GOP USA ^ | Dec. 16, 2003 | Jimmy Moore


Posted on 12/17/2003 7:31:29 AM PST by prairiebreeze


SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Liberal online political group MoveOn.org as well as two major Democrat candidates for president are in the midst of a brewing scandal over potentially improper online contributions received from European citizens who have been encouraged to send money to the group to help defeat President George W. Bush in next year's elections.

In an article posted last week in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, the headline read, "Now you have the chance to leave your mark on Bush."

The story tells Europeans that they have "a chance to defeat [Bush] -- even if you are not an American."

"One dollar for every European citizen would raise more money than the entire official Bush campaign budget for his election in 2000," the website proclaims. "Compare this price to the cost of having Bush in the White House."

[Indie]

the great majority of people are clueless when it comes to politics. Fortunately, there is a trend in the opposite direction, as recent research has suggested.

This may well be true of the educated and enlightened such as found on our esteemed pages of FR, however, when the AZTlaners and LaRaza (and others) have publicly stated "We will outbreed you," I think it is clear that we will eventually lose this race. And the open borders only add gasoline to the fire.

[MarMema]

Evil and vile are very true words to use in this case. But none of the post talks about his other pet, Project on Death in America. Soros has spent the last ten or so years attempting to personally transform the medical field and he has made a good impact.
What he has funded makes me ill. Initiatives where chronic-illness kids are kept in hospices instead of being hospitalized when they are sick. Using various overt causes like less stress with less hospital time, what he is really doing is causing the kids to die much sooner and giving them less chance at recovery.

Additionally, thanks to Soros and his buddy at Princeton, Peter Singer, the new movement is toward using very sick kids for organ donations, and letting them die after the organs are removed in surgery I suppose.

Soros said he wanted to transform the culture of death in this country. What he has done is advanced the medical field toward utilitarianism and depersonalization.

[Chi-townChief]

"Soros has always fancied himself an intellectual as well as a moneymaker, and he wants desperately to be taken seriously."

The boy sure has a strange way of going about it.

[Flux Capacitor]

----I suspect Soros isn't terribly intellectual.----

People who consider themselves to be intellectuals typically aren't.

-Dan

[RabidBartender]

Of course, isn't spending money what helps stimulate the economy? To make those ads, they have to hire actors, writers, producers - plus purchase ad space, giving newspapers more revenue to hire more people and spend more. All this leads to a stronger economy, which makes President Bush look good.

Thanks, Evil George (Soros)!

[MarMema]

Dean and Soros are in full agreement on issues like euthanasia and killing sick kids for their organs. I am not surprised to see them working together. And I believe I know their master.

[international american]

"it would be foolish to take Soros lightly. He is emerging as a great threat not just to the re-election of George Bush, but to our truly open society as well."

Soros will fail this time, as the candidates are hopelessly incompetent. He is a REAL threat in 08.

[Grampa Dave]

I was not aware of this death push by $oreA$$. However, his pushing of legalization drugs, wide open abortion, and other schemes to rid the planet of what he feels are undesirables, makes him a true prince of Death.

I was not aware of the relationship of $oreA$$ and America's Prince of Death to Children, Peter Singer. Singer is another evil one, who should stuffed into the $oddomite's spider hole with $oreA$$ and have the hole sealed up steel.

[StriperSniper]

These millions Soros is pouring into this draws into question his competency as an investor because this is a sure loser if I ever saw one. He is p!$$ing his money away here.

Maybe with the amounts so far, but his MO is to 'take positions' so large they change the fundamentals.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Kevin Curry]

The 2004 Presidential race, [Soros] told the Post, is "a matter of life and death."

So what's the Dope Pope saying? That's he's going to off himself if Bush wins reelection?

[Grampa Dave]

You posted, Dean and Soros are in full agreement on issues like euthanasia and killing sick kids for their organs. I am not surprised to see them working together. And I believe I know their master

This makes one wonder if the records that Metro Sexual Dean has sealed up when he was governor might include some paper trail to what you posted above.

[Paved Paradise]

When I first saw this I thought it said Sore Throat.

[reed_inthe_wind]

Note to self: Amass billions of dollars, join left wing elitist court as political jester, and use power of mass media to cripple democracy. - Now that's living high on the hog. Yeeeeehaaah.

[arasina]

Soros may not have to spend much money for his anti-Bush campaign. Just look at all the people right here on Free Republic who have stated they aren't going to vote to re-elect President Bush. Dubya has to fight the dragon at its head and is meanwhile getting whomped by its tail.

All I can say is I'm glad for the truth in the statement "Money isn't everything."

[El Gato]

My guess is that the $15 million Soros has spent is just the beginning. Most voters are blessedly immune to dumb arguments even when they are well-funded. Nevertheless, it would be foolish to take Soros lightly. He is emerging as a great threat not just to the re-election of George Bush, but to our truly open society as well.

And of course Soros can still run political ads during the 30/60 day windows before the elections. Associations of the "little people", like the NRA, SAF/CCRKBA, GOA, etc. cannot.

[Grampa Dave]

SUPERB!