Posted on 10/19/2004 5:59:37 PM PDT by Notch
Breaking News from NewsMax.com
Billionaires Secretly Met in Aspen to Defeat Bush
In the days following the Democratic National Convention in Boston this past August, several billionaire Democratic activists secretly met at the famed Aspen Institute in Colorado.
The purpose of their clandestine meeting was "to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush," The New Yorker magazine reports in its most recent edition.
Details of the meeting remain sketchy, but the magazine described the Aspen conference this way: "Five billionaires joined half a dozen liberal leaders in a lengthy conversation about the future of progressive politics in America."
For sure, there were differences of opinion in the group, but they all shared one goal: to get George Bush this November.
The Aspen meeting was supposed to have been a top secret within Democratic Party circles.
When The New Yorker inquired about the meeting, an assistant to one of the attendees was surprised by the call.
"No one was supposed to know about this," the aide told the magazine. "We don't want people thinking it's a cabal or some sort of Masonic plot!"
Apparently the leader of the secret cabal is billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Cleveland, Ohio-based insurance company Progressive Corporation.
Like another attendee, wealthy financier George Soros, Lewis has poured millions into Democratic 527 groups, including Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org.
One of Lewis' top agenda items has been the decriminalization of marijuana, a policy position also shared by Soros.
Another billionaire who attended was John Sperling, founder of the online University of Phoenix.
Also present were Herb and Marion Sandler from California. The couple founded Golden West Financial Corporation, a California bank reportedly worth $17 billion.
The key agenda items for the Sandlers has been "preserving progressive income taxes and inheritance taxes," the magazine reported.
The wealthiest and most notable of those attending the meeting was George Soros, the 74-year-old Hungarian immigrant who desperately wants to defeat George Bush and has even compared him to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
Apparently, all was not roses at the billionaire confab, according to The New Yorker.
"The billionaires spent much of the time moaning the superior powers of the GOP," the magazine said, and the group even needed some cheerleading from Harold Ickes, a former top aide to Bill Clinton who is involved in the 527 efforts.
There was disagreement about some of the issues and policy positions the group should take.
Sperling, for one, argued that the main target of their efforts should be Wal-Mart. He wants to push for unionizing the giant retailer.
That idea was apparently vetoed by George Soros, who reportedly told the group he had no desire to support union initiatives and that his only single goal at this point was "ousting Bush."
Though not the leader of the group, Soros holds the largest bank account and as such is the 800-pound gorilla, having given more than $18 million to the 527s in an effort to defeat Bush.
The magazine said Soros had planned to keep a low profile in the closing months of the election, but suddenly changed course this summer when he decided to "jettison the strategy in favor of waging his own media-grabbing political campaign."
Soros hired a publicist and began a 12-city, $3 million personal crusade to defeat George Bush.
According to the magazine, Soros has nothing but contempt for Bush, who he considers "an ignorant fool."
More than that, he sees Bush as the face man for a secret cabal. "Bush was just chosen as a figurehead, an acceptable face for a sinister group," Soros told The New Yorker, adding, "Cheney is the Capo."
Clearly, Soros knows a thing or two about secret cabals and capos.
They may be rich, but they are not bigger than God.
Guess my first was not a first ! Well I tried but unless one is here 24/7 these things will happen .. Guess I shoulda done the search thingy. You folks is just the best and ya'll know this to be the truth. I read F.R. religiously and I still missed the first 2 posts on this... Bad Me !
It figures that a Kerry supporter is behind those annoying University of Phoenix pop-ups!
For the life of me I don't know why even one Jew would vote for Kerry. Don't they READ??? I saw something a couple of weeks ago about how so many Isralie Jews have duel citizenship and they were anxiously voting for George Bush and encouraging their American relatives to vote for George Bush --
So, I ask you... why are the number so skewed that most of the Jews are voting for Kerry? If they read this article where Soros wants to open the gates for Muslims to immigrate here, basically in mass.. plus wants to open the borders as if they don't exist... who the he!! does this guy think he is??? I'm just so angry that 50% of our population is stupidly sitting back and helping this happen. Look at the negative impact happening in Europe from the muslim migration.
It doesn't surprise me that Harold Ickes was there. He maintains a very low profile, but seems like the smartest, most effective of the anti-bush group.
This can't be! Only Republicans are billionaires!
Progressive Insurance would be a great place to start.
No self-respecting CONSERVATIVE should have car insurance with this person who is plotting against America. How disgusting.
Those EARNING over $200,000 are the workers, the doers and create wealth. The wealthy seem to be those where it might be perceived they somehow manipulated or stole their wealth. Well, the rich in Socialist Societies are those that steal from the masses. The masses are all poor as opposed to a Capitalist Society where there will be some rich and some poor; nbut every one has a chance.
I just read this not 5 minutes ago myself. The Clintonistas, DNC lawyers and toadies are actively working with the 527's and yet squeal like stuck pigs because a Republican made a contribution to the Swifties and a Bush legal representative resigned from his activities on the campaign rather than appear to be in conflict of interest after discussing general legal matters with the Swifties.
The leftists of the world are generating some very bad karma for themselves.
Prairie
Well If the can manage to keep us stoned and loopy, Whos left to watch over their final takeover plans.. Also drug-addicted folks need insurance from all the crap they stummble into, both on and off the roads.
"More than that, he sees Bush as the face man for a secret cabal. "Bush was just chosen as a figurehead, an acceptable face for a sinister group," Soros told The New Yorker, adding, "Cheney is the Capo." "
He sounds like Lyndon Larrouche
How do we know this wasn't a meeting to set up the take-down of Kerry ..?? With a Clinton person there - I'm suspicious.
I'm predicting - when this election is over .. there is going to be a knock-down drag out fight over control of the dem party.
McAwful has said he's leaving the DNC. That can only mean one thing. McAwful is possibly going to start a new DNC-type of organization - and leave the remaining DNC to sink or swim. If that happens, Zell Miller and his group are perfectly poised to retake the dem party.
I have thought for a long time that all these Soros/Clinton/Kerry 527 organizations were only there for one reason - to establish a fund-raising base for Hillary's run for the President in 2008.
But .. as usual .. Hillary has not followed this idea far enough .. this action will divide the dem party and diminish her ability to get elected.
Notch, I have to know.... How did you join tomorrow?
Thanks -Great read..
So our hope is for Demoncrap Political machine to fade into oblivion much as the Tammany Political machine did.
I just did some research on this guy. One of the articles said he had joined Teresa Heinz Kerry in giving millions of dollars to the Tides Foundation which is a leftist organization and to the Tides Center. Soros was for Howard Dean. Soros does his work through 2 groups--Open Society Institute and the Open Society Foundations. These groups are funded in about 50 countries. His co-horts work for the ACLU. Morton Halperin runs the OSI in DC and other Clinton friends also help.
Someone told me that he was a wonderful man, but from what I have read, he is a mad power seeking individual who is after President Bush as well as this country.
I got this information from the War Room whatever that is. I had never heard of it until my search.
I am the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA ! So sayeth the LORD ..
(no -truthfully , I am having a lot of touble keeping up here and just barely getting by.. But been lurking like forever.. :-)
I'll tell you why I don't think it's an attempt to take down Kerry for Hellary in 2008
United States Supreme Court
There will be 3 openings on the bench, most likely within the next four years
The liberals have been over riding Congress and changes the rules/laws through the Courts
The liberals can't afford to wait till 2008 and Hellary and(IMO) the reason why we are seeing the Clinton Goons take over Kerry's Campaign is because of the Swiftboat Vets and POW's seriously damaged Kerry
Then add in how President Bush has been hammering Kerry over his record in the Senate for the las 20 years and people start rethinking about Kerry .. folks don't trust Kerry
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