George Soros
Posted on 12/29/2003 9:46:11 PM PST by Salvation
ELECTION 2004
Bush takes on Soros
Fund-raising e-mail urges support to counter billionaire's campaign
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The campaign to re-elect President George W. Bush has taken aim at his 10th rival in the race – non-candidate George Soros.
Staffers fired off an e-mail to Republican supporters in an effort to counter the billionaire-financier's campaign to oust the incumbent, reports the Independent.
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WorldNetDaily reported the Hungarian-born philanthropist seeks to raise up to $75 million and has pledged more than $15 million of his own money to prevent Bush from staying in the White House.
He committed an unprecedented $10 million to "Americans Coming Together," or ACT, which plans to mobilize voters in 17 states regarded as battlegrounds in the 2004 election.
WorldNetDaily reported Soros also pledged up to $5 million to mobilize anti-Bush activists and voters online. He and other wealthy donors are financing the Internet political-mobilization project MoveOn.org, founded by a California millionaire in 1998 to defend President Clinton from impeachment.
As part of its "down with Bush" campaign, the group recently launched a competition to find the best 30-second television spot that highlights perceived Bush failures. The winning spot is targeted to air during the week of Bush's State of the Union address. The Independent reports the "Bush in 30 Seconds" competition is partly run by Soros's son, Jonathan Soros.
Soros distributes $400 million annually through his Open Society Institute.
In 1992, he reportedly garnered $1 billion in one day of currency trading that caused the value of the British pound to plummet. Subsequently known as "the man who broke the Bank of England," Soros says he wants to be known as the man who brought down the government of President Bush.
Motivation for the initiative is fueled by his contention the Bush administration is mishandling its power.
"The struggle for a global open society must be fought primarily in the United States, because the United States has clearly become the dominant power in the world," he said in a June interview, according to the National Post. "I feel that the current U.S. administration is abusing its power by trying to increase that power instead of using it to try and create a more peaceful and equitable world."
Soros contends the administration, particularly Attorney General John Ashcroft along with Bush, has used the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to expand its authority and erode civil liberties.
"You pass the USA Patriot Act without proper discussion," said Soros in a PBS television interview in September. "Anyone who opposed it was accused of giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. I think we've gone off the rail in this country. Lawmakers didn't even get a copy of the bill. They couldn't even read it before it was passed."
The financier has been especially critical of the Iraq war and the Bush administration's foreign policy.
"I find the foreign policy of the Bush administration exceedingly dangerous," he told a University of Pennsylvania audience in April 2002, when the United States was wrapping up the first volley in the war on terrorism against the Taliban in Afghanistan. "Although the terrorist threat is real and must be defended against, they are going about it in the wrong way."
"There are some people in the Bush administration who have the same mentality as Arafat or [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon. I can name names, like Ashcroft, Cheney and Rumsfeld, although that is considered impolite," he added, according to an article on the event in the university paper.
The London daily reports the Bush camp e-mail message warns: "Liberal special interests, led by billionaire currency trader George Soros, are raising millions in soft, unregulated money to defeat President Bush."
The e-mail implies the grass-roots groups Soros is backing plan to accept, or have already accepted funds from abroad in violation of federal election law.
"To beat these billionaire liberals and the flood of foreign money they're encouraging, we need your help today," reads the e-mail, according to the Independent.
MoveOn.org denies it has been taking money from Bush foes from abroad.
The president has so far raised $110 million for the primary campaign, and has stated he seeks to raise $170 million for the general election.
Soros maintains he's simply trying to level the playing field, asserting "unchecked capitalism" fails to provide social justice.
"We need to maintain law and order," Soros said, according to the Canadian National Post. "We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs."
Born in 1930, Soros left his native Hungary in 1947 to study at the London School of Economics, then went to the U.S. nine years later where he began building his fortune through foreign-currency speculation.
According to his website, he has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa.
Last year he was fined more than $2 million by a Paris court for insider trading but plans to appeal the conviction.
He also has been accused of unfair practices in other foreign markets, including developing countries. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad claims Soros bears some responsibility for Asia's 1997 economic crisis.
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Comments, anyone?
What does Soros Fear?
He should fear death! Because our heavenly Father has a first class ticket to He// with his name on it!
Assuming he's raising that, it must be coming from somewhere. On the other hand, $75,000,000 doesn't sound like that much in a presidential race. Bush raised nearly $200,000,000 in 2000 just for the primary run. I s'pect he could do it again, and more this time and he won't really have a primary challenger. Furthermore, Bush will do it with a far broader base of support that will Anyone But Bush.
Finally, having Soros put that much in circulation is a wonderful thing. It keeps dough circulating which keeps the economy humming along in battleground states. That's good for Bush as well.
They are coming across to the American people as the "Hate" party and the people are sick of it.
Any further negative and hatefull adds will have the opposite effect. It will just make W look all the better.
None of the Bushes, no matter what some tinfoilers here imagine,haves a thing to do with the NWO stuff; howsever, Soros ( may he rot in HELL ! )certainly does.
I'd love to tell him, in Hungarian, some choice words...I tell ya. :-(
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