State Department invites Bush-bashing billionaire to speak -- (Action Alert!)

American Conservative Union ^ | Sept, 12, 2003 | American Conservative Union

[prairiebreeze]

It is an outrage and deeply offensive that billionaire leftist George Soros has been invited to speak at the U.S. State Department, American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene said today.

Please call Colin Powell at (202) 647-4000 and express your outrage at the State Department inviting George Soros to speak.

"Soros opposes everything President Bush stands for," Keene said. "He opposed the war in Iraq and he bankrolls every wacko liberal cause from population and gun control schemes, to drug legalization, radical feminism, and one-world globalism. Soros makes Ted Turner look conservative by comparison.

"Worse, Soros personally wrote a $10 million check to a coalition of leftist environmentalists, labor bosses, and radical women's groups dedicated to defeating President Bush in next year's election.

"How this Daddy Warbucks of the radical Left could be invited to speak at the prestigious Secretary's Open Forum is totally inexplicable," Keene said. "This is a slap in the face to both President Bush and his conservative base, which spends an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources combating the liberal mischief subsidized by Soros's deep pockets."

The Washington Post's Al Kamen reported on the Soros speaking invitation in his "In the Loop" column this morning. Posters booming the Soros speech at Foggy Bottom gushingly describe him as "Philosopher, Philanthropist, Financier, Author."

"This appears to be another instance of Colin Powell's political tone-deafness," Keene said. "Or is it yet another example of the Secretary of State attempting to curry personal favor with the international Left? Extending such a prestigious invitation to one of President Bush's most bitter opponents and savage critics is deeply offensive, a thumb in the eye of the White House."

Again, please call Colin Powell at (202) 647-4000 and express your outrage at State inviting George Soros to speak.

[prairiebreeze]

Has Powell lost his mind? Or just his convictions?

Prairie

[GOP_1900AD]

Soros... can't get much more offensive than having him speak. We cant' stand him here on the Right.... and.... even the Greens can't stand him. Foggy Bottom once again out to lunch.

[Ingtar]

Must be his mind. I have never seen any evidence of convictions, at least Conservative ones, to lose.

[billhilly]

This is one of the reasons that Powell gets such high marks with the media. We do indeed have a mole in the State Department, and it is the Secretary of State.

[Tom Jefferson]

As a Conservative and a believer in the Bill of Rights, the State Department has a right to ask Soros to speak and he has the right to state his views.

I don't agree with Soros, but, to paraphrase, I will defend his right to state his views. We cannot suppress free speech, or we will erode our rights and freedoms in this country.

I also think it is important to hear the views of those who disagree with us so that we hear what those views are, the better to challenge them.

I feel very strongly about preventing the erosion of the First Amendment in any way, except for security reasons, which this is not.

[JohnGalt]

Soros and the neoconservatives were united in their desire to carve up Serbia, coupled with the left leaning internationalists at State, and you have the markings of a challenge against Bush from within.

[freekitty]

That figures.

[KriegerGeist]

The U.S. State Department has done the most damage to/for President George W.Bush. Now, you can see that they want him out of office. This should be a clue to George W. to not listen to, nor take council from these guys over at Foggy Bottom anymore. I remember Oliver North say that the "State Department told him not to get to close to or too familiar with those at the White House because 'they were just the Christmas help'". I have never liked Powell as Secretary of State, I still don't and hope that he does not continue the job after the 2004 elections. We need a Rumsfeld type over there to clean house.

[Rubber Duck]

Soros is a scumbag lower than Clinton himself. It was his currency manipulations which wrecked the Thai Baht in 1998 and had severe repercussions in the region. As an added benefit, factories fled from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to Red China where the currency is not allowed to fluctuate freely. Soros is in bed with the Red Chinese and ought to be deported there.

[Tom Jefferson]

There is a whole culture at the State Department that is opposed to the War on Terror, by either the US or Israel.

The majority of employees of the State Department are lifetime career officers who hold their jobs whether the administration is Democrat or Republican. Their interest is in their "clients" - the countries they deal with. Keep in mind that there are 19 Arab "desks" and 1 Israeli "desk". Also the European "desks" think like their "clients" in Europe.

While we need experienced diplomats, I think the whole place needs a housecleaning. It doesn't do any good for a Republican administration to tell them what its priorities are, because the thoughts that go through their heads are, "Well, you are only here for 4 years, or at the most, 8, and the next adminstration might have other objectives, and besides, I want to keep good relations with the Ambassador from Libya, Syria, etc., so I can get invited to his parties"

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Just goes to show that we don't really control things as much as we think.

[hosepipe]

[ "How this Daddy Warbucks of the radical Left could be invited to speak at the prestigious Secretary's Open Forum is totally inexplicable," Keene said. ]

Then Keene is totally clueless as is anyone else confused about this... BUSH did NOT clean house in the State Department from Clinton appointees and worse put in Powell as the head... The State Department is populated by people vicerally against anything conservative.. part of the juggernaut triad of democrat party, mainstream media, state department(AND gov't workers union)... with their willing vassal a republican party that refuses to FIGHT BACK.. Little wonder American Socialism continues unabated no matter how many republicans are elected...

(secret) You can take the democrat out of the party but its damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat... you end up with a moderate republican... (sic: Socialist, mole, 5th column, stealth traitor, Jeffordonian)

[kimoajax]

The Powell doctrine in action.