Billionaire Soros says Bush must not be re-elected

Reuters ^ | 01/12/04

[Pokey78]

WASHINGTON - Billionaire fund manager George Soros, who plans to spend millions of dollars to try to prevent George W. Bush from being re-elected in November, said on Monday the U.S. president was pursuing an undesirable dream of American supremacy.

The financier and philanthropist likened the Bush administration's international policies to George Orwell's Animal Farm. In that book the farm animals are all equal but the powerful pigs take charge and change the rules to justify their behavior.

Soros said Bush "used the war on terror as a pretext to pursue a dream of American supremacy that is neither attainable or desirable."

"I consider it crucial that the policies of the Bush administration be rejected in the forthcoming election," Soros said in a speech promoting his new book at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Soros, whose $11.5 billion Soros Fund Management is one of the world's largest hedge funds, has pledged $12.5 million to his campaign to defeat Bush.

Bush has raised more than $130 million in campaign funds toward a goal of at least $170 million. But even with the large war chest and a big advantage in fund-raising over Democratic candidates, the Bush campaign says it could be outspent because Soros and others will spend up to $400 million on issue advertisements.

Soros said the invasion of Iraq was an example of the "Bush doctrine" which he charges entails pre-emptive military action and lack of tolerance for military rivals, suggesting two levels of national sovereignty in which the U.S. is "exempt" from constraints of international law.

"This is reminiscent of George Orwell's famous book Animal Farm in which all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others," said Soros, a Hungarian-born American.

"If we re-elect Bush in 2004 we endorse the Bush doctrine and we will have to live with the consequences," he added.

[zarf]

Boggeyman Soros. Made to order for the GOP.

I hope the Pubs wield him as a weapon and bash the Democrats as beholden to rich business interests.

[anniegetyourgun]

And I hope he spends himself into destitution - leaving him a lonely, bitter old man who also happens to be penniless.

[Eala]

but the powerful pigs take charge and change the rules to justify their behavior.

Sounds like Clinton and the libs to me...

[observer5]

"the farm animals are all equal but the powerful pigs take charge"

So Soros is one of the rich "powerful PIGS" that take charge, by spending his big bugs to impose his will of american democracy?

What an idiotic Ass!

[Buck W.]

""If we re-elect Bush in 2004 we endorse the Bush doctrine and we will have to live with the consequences," he added."

I'm OK with that.

[Armedanddangerous]

Soo.. if I vote to reelect George W. Bush, I should expect more terrorist attacks and my life to be at risk?

Hmm...what does he know that we should?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

This bum should be deported.

[sauropod]

"Billionaire Soros says Bush must not be re-elected"

Doo-dah.

[shaggy eel]

Sounds like Clinton and the libs to me...

,,, and New Zealand's Helen Clark & Co. Soros is one of the speculators who's presently pushing up the value of the $NZ, so on the basis of the claim he's making, he's a hypocrit.

[motherof 3]

Can you even imagine what the media would be saying if a Republican was giving this kind of money?

[Cathryn Crawford]

Have you been getting your check?

[Faraday]

George Orwell must be spinning in his grave. But he would recognize the lies told by billionaire pig Soros.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Soros said Bush "used the war on terror as a pretext to pursue a dream of American supremacy that is neither attainable or desirable."

No, it is a fact.

[Dan from Michigan]

F-You Soros.

1. For being a Commie lib.
2. For costing me money with what you did in Russia.

[anniegetyourgun]

Not to mention what the lib/dems would be saying. Oh wait....one and the same.....

[over3Owithabrain]

Soros said in a speech promoting his new book at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Hey, aren't they the "objective" think-tank that denounced claims of WMD in Iraq?

[Burkeman1]

Poor Soros. Didn't pick the right slightly different faction to back? And he and his are going to be locked out of contracts that he would have got if Mr. Gore had won the election and ivaded Iraq (and it would have happened either way- just as we will still be in Iraq either way no matter who wins this November.)

[SierraWasp]

No! The leftist media news anchors referred to them as the "NON PARTISAN" think tank!!! What a knee slapper that is!!!

[Keith]

my guess is his funds are shorting the dollar like madmen, trying to force our economy down so that Bush gets defeated.

If I want to screw this jerk, I would look at what his companies' positions are on the dollar and go after this traitor.