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George Soros Now Doubts a Kerry Victory (says will join a monastery if Bush wins)
Newsmax.com ^ | 10/28/04 | Dave Eberhart

Posted on 10/28/2004 2:14:18 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana

WASHIGTON, D.C. – Billionaire investor, donor to radical causes and political activist George Soros, speaking at the last hurrah event of his whirlwind anti-Bush tour, told a luncheon audience at the National Press Club: “Now that I am at the end of my tour, I am not reassured... The race is too close for comfort.”

“I embarked on the tour because I was worried that the dramatic deterioration in Iraq did not produce the decisive lead for John Kerry I had confidently expected,” Soros conceded.

Asked what he will do if George W. Bush wins another term, Soros lamented, “I shall go into some kind of monastery. If we endorse him [Bush], my next question will be ‘what’s wrong with us?’” Competing for attention at the National Press Club was a contingent from the National Legal and Policy Center that has been shadowing Soros during his recent appearances in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

At a separate press conference, the Center announced the formation of their “Soros Truth Squad,” touting the fact that just hours before, it had filed suit with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaining of the activities of two nonprofit organizations that hosted Soros’ current round of anti-Bush speeches.

Also the subject of formal complaint by the Center: Soros himself. The Center alleges that Soros has failed to report “significant travel, public relations and other costs associated with his speaking tour.”

During the Center’s presentation, a representative who came over from the Soros luncheon contingent shouted out that the allegations against Soros were false. Peter Flaherty, the president of the Center, countered that Soros had not yet been served with the complaint, so how could the gentleman know it was falsely based?

Meanwhile at the luncheon, NewsMax was on hand to ask Soros about the just filed complaint. With no small amount of irony, Soros replied, “It’s a shady group supported by a shady billionaire ... I think I was well within my rights under the First Amendment.”

The Soros luncheon was crashed by a heckler who grabbed the microphone and held up a picture of his dead son – apparently the victim of a drug overdose (Soros supports the legalization of marijuana, the use of methadone and even the clinical dosing of addicts with heroin).

A couple of burly men in suits wrestled the man roughly out of the ballroom, smacking him into a door jam before resuming their stations to the left and right ends of the head table.

Soros stayed on topic. “Some people have a false understanding of where I stand [on drugs].

Soros opined that Kerry was going to win Ohio, owing in no small measure to the 850,000 newly-registered voters there. He added that he hoped the Republican “voter suppression” would not dampen the grass roots movement against Bush he has been fostering during his round of speeches.

“I am very concerned about the election being dependent on the Courts. Knowing who will be president on Nov. 2 is rather slim,” Soros said. “It’s all very demeaning of the democratic process in this country.”

Conceding that his hope for a “democrat landslide” has gone by the boards, his only direct remark about candidate Kerry was that he knew him personally and that he would make “a good president.”

Another tepid endorsement of Kerry came as he explained that in his opinion Kerry understood that “offense is not necessarily the best defense if it offends those whose allegiance we need. John Kerry is aware of this other dimension... He is nuanced because reality is complicated...

“John Kerry won all three debates but President Bush invokes his faith and that inspires his followers… Bush has shown that he is incapable of recognizing his mistakes. He insists on making reality conform to his beliefs even at the cost of deceiving himself and deliberately deceiving the public.”

“We have been spared a terrorist attack at home but it is quite a stretch to attribute that to the invasion of Iraq,” Soros argued. “The insurrection in Iraq, however, is a somber reality and it doesn’t make us safer at home. Our security, far from improving as President Bush claims, is deteriorating.”

Soros concluded: “If we elect President Bush the war on terror will never end. The terrorists are invisible, therefore they can never disappear. It is our civil liberties that may disappear instead.”

Meanwhile, back at the “Soros Truth Squad,” Flaherty noted emotionally, “God is right here at the National Press Club! ...I wonder if he has embarked on his tour because he wishes that he were the candidate, instead of Kerry?”


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Just damn. What order of Monks would even take him?
1 posted on 10/28/2004 2:14:19 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
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To: hispanarepublicana

Good riddance!


2 posted on 10/28/2004 2:14:41 PM PDT by RockinRight (Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

Memo to Soros: Start brushing up for Seminary School.


3 posted on 10/28/2004 2:15:24 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: hispanarepublicana
Too bad he didn't waste all his money supporting skerry...

Ta ta soros, you loser

4 posted on 10/28/2004 2:15:46 PM PDT by coder2
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To: hispanarepublicana
Just damn. What order of Monks would even take him?The Order of Asstards.
5 posted on 10/28/2004 2:16:17 PM PDT by Shryke (Rumpologists for BUSH!)
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Atta boy. You and Alec always keep your promises.


6 posted on 10/28/2004 2:16:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: RockinRight

I will volunteer to shave his head for him.


7 posted on 10/28/2004 2:16:46 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: hispanarepublicana
Soros concluded: “If we elect President Bush the war on terror will never end. The terrorists are invisible, therefore they can never disappear. It is our civil liberties that may disappear instead.”

So what, just let the terrorists have their way?

What an idiot...

8 posted on 10/28/2004 2:17:05 PM PDT by danneskjold (Hey Dims...Here's a one finger victory salute for you!!!)
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“I embarked on the tour because I was worried that the dramatic deterioration in Iraq did not produce the decisive lead for John Kerry I had confidently expected,” Soros conceded. <<

What a POS. No Godly monastary would take him.


9 posted on 10/28/2004 2:17:26 PM PDT by hushpad
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Soros lamented, “I shall go into some kind of monastery

What a lie. Just like Alec Baldwin was going to move to France. Yeah, right....

10 posted on 10/28/2004 2:17:35 PM PDT by zlala
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To: hispanarepublicana

Can I buy him the plane ticket to go away to Tibet forever?


11 posted on 10/28/2004 2:17:49 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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Bush has shown that he is incapable of recognizing his mistakes

I am getting sooooo tired of this line.

12 posted on 10/28/2004 2:17:49 PM PDT by KJacob (I seem to have lost my tagline.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

One could only hope


13 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:00 PM PDT by clamper1797 (This Vietnam Vet is NOT Fonda kerry)
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To: hispanarepublicana

With Soros gone to a monastery, who will be left to manipulate the oil and other markets to favor the Dims?

Good riddance nutjob. Take your buddies at moreon.org along with you.


14 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:17 PM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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To: RockinRight

...to bad rubbish!


15 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:23 PM PDT by Freepdonia (Victory is Ours!)
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To: hispanarepublicana
Asked what he will do if George W. Bush wins another term, Soros lamented, “I shall go into some kind of monastery

This is great news! Vow of silence and everything?

17 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:37 PM PDT by kstewskis (Gibson '06)
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No monastic order would take him, but I'm sure the Maryknoll Fathers or the Jesuits would snap him up in a second.

He wouldn't even have to stop being an atheist.

For his own good and ours, though, he should become a sincere Carthusian.

18 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:39 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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“I embarked on the tour because I was worried that the dramatic deterioration in Iraq did not produce the decisive lead for John Kerry I had confidently expected,”


No a whole lot of ways to interpret that statement.
19 posted on 10/28/2004 2:18:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (We've turned the corner and we're not smokin crack.)
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says will join a monastery if Bush wins

Sugh . . . We can only wish. I suspect he's as good at keeping that promise as the looney leftist entertainers are at keeping theirs (Alec Baldwin, anyone?)

20 posted on 10/28/2004 2:19:20 PM PDT by gop_gene
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