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Bush-Haters of the World, Unite!
The Weekly Standard ^ | 06/04/2004 | Erin Montgomery

Posted on 06/10/2004 8:34:36 AM PDT by neverdem

Amateur and professional Bush-haters gather in Washington for the Take Back America conference.

BILLIONAIRE AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIER George Soros, who is bankrolling the campaign against Bush, yesterday compared the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal to the attacks of September 11. "I think that those pictures [of prison abuse] hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself--not quite with the same force, because in the terrorist attack, we were the victims. In the pictures, we were the perpetrators and others were the victims," he said. "But there is, I'm afraid, a direct connection between those two events, because the way President Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into perpetrators."

Soros also accused Bush administration officials of being "American supremacists," and claimed the United States went to war "on false pretenses." He stated that there was "no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda," and that America did not go to war "for the sake of the Iraqi people." Senator Hillary Clinton introduced Soros in front of a packed ballroom and commended him for his fearlessness and generosity. In her 20-minute speech she, to whoops of delight from the audience, likened the president to the robber barons of the late-19th century and warned the audience about the conservative media machine: "Now, you're going to hear, if you haven't already, many, many attacks on George Soros. . . . And, you know, we have two kinds of media left, it seems to me. We've got the so-called mainstream media . . . and then we've got the advocacy media that is turning war into propaganda."

OVER 2,000 PROGRESSIVES from across the country paid a $175 registration fee and flocked to the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington this week for the Take Back America conference, to do a bit of propagandizing of their own, and, of course, to rescue America from those pesky conservatives. The conference--sponsored by the activist group Campaign for America's Future--began Wednesday, June 2, and concludes this afternoon. Attendee Chris Maroul, of Houston, Texas, planned his summer vacation around the conference, and was one of the first in line at the registration table Wednesday morning. "I needed to use up my vacation time from work and went online to see what was going on in D.C.," he said. There, he stumbled upon the conference information. "It was meant to be," said Maroul, who wore an eye-catching T-shirt, which read, on the front: "The Few, The Loud, The Peaceloving Texas Liberal." And on the back: "In Houston, they refer to me as that ******* liberal."

None of the people who attended or spoke at the conference could top the comments of Soros, but many came close. Howard Dean, who entered the ballroom to Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" and a screaming audience holding up torn "Howard Dean for America" signs, joked about Bush's ambitious space program. "We agree the president . . . should definitely go to Mars. He'll need some help, so we'll send John Ashcroft along with him. [As of this morning], we already sent George Tenet there ."

Wait, there's more. In a conference session entitled "The Populism Moment," national radio commentator Jim Hightower teamed up with nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, and Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) to tell us what we common people really need: John Kerry to be our next president. Naturally, it was an hour of unadulterated Bush-bashing. Here are some of the comments Hightower bestowed upon his audience, whom, he said, had gathered at the conference "under the regime of King George the W. and his autocratic, plutocratic, anti-democratic regime of thieves in high places":

* "George Bush is nuts."

* "I don't care if John Kerry is a sack of cement; we're going to carry him to victory."

* "Battling the bastards [conservatives] is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on."

After Hightower, the mediator made jokes about Dick Cheney having an "undisclosed heart attack" somewhere. Then it was time for Huffington to take the stage. In the middle of her glib remarks, a telling anecdote appeared. Last year, Huffington ate Christmas dinner with some Greek-American friends, during which she had an interesting conversation with their 11-year-old son, Constantine. Constantine, a Bush supporter, told Huffington that he could convince her to vote for Bush in the upcoming election, and that he could do so by asking her two simple questions: (1) Do you want to keep more or less of your money? and (2) Do you want to get serious about the war on terror? Needless to say, Constantine didn't change Huffington's mind. She thought the clever lad was "asking the wrong questions."

Erin Montgomery is an editorial assistant at The Weekly Standard.

© Copyright 2004, News Corporation, Weekly Standard, All Rights Reserved.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushhaters; georgesoros; hillaryclinton; soros
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To: neverdem
...national radio commentator...

He does a three-four minute radio commentary. Big deal. I have one of his books - it was a tedious read...

21 posted on 06/10/2004 9:00:32 AM PDT by Fury
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To: AmericanMade1776

LOL! Awesome. If you can find a picture of some sheep, chances are, Hanoi John will be there tending his flock.


22 posted on 06/10/2004 9:02:38 AM PDT by gunnygail (5,000 libretards on the bottom of the ocean? Yeah, a GOOD start.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

23 posted on 06/10/2004 9:03:52 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: neverdem

Amazing how Socialists/Communists are referred to as "Progressives" in the mainstream press, while anyone remotely conservative is "Radical Right". Anyone notice how terrorists in Iraq are now referred by many so-called journalists as "insurgents"? The beat goes on......


24 posted on 06/10/2004 9:04:17 AM PDT by chasman89031
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To: neverdem
* "Battling the bastards [conservatives] is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on."

Think of how much more fun it would be if you had any listeners.

25 posted on 06/10/2004 9:07:05 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: neverdem

SOMEONE TELL ARIANNA, the "shadow government" is no more.

26 posted on 06/10/2004 9:09:31 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: neverdem

LOL! Heck, I thought I'd corrected my typo. :)


27 posted on 06/10/2004 9:12:52 AM PDT by onyx
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To: AmericanMade1776

(Kerry) He ain't heavy except for under the seat of his pants.


28 posted on 06/10/2004 9:14:12 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: AmericanMade1776

If this intellectual vapidity is the real Arianna Huffington...

I can see why Michael decided to switch...


29 posted on 06/10/2004 9:15:03 AM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)
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To: oblomov
Kerry in a Tube?


30 posted on 06/10/2004 9:27:11 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: neverdem
BILLIONAIRE AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIER George Soros, who is bankrolling the campaign against Bush...

The Left has been telling us for years that 'big money' is killing politics in this country. In fact, with John McCain's help and a baffling victory in the Supreme Court, they've severely limited the First Amendment in their ongoing war against those nasty rich people using their money to influence politics.

Question for the libs: Do the activities of George Soros disgust you?

31 posted on 06/10/2004 9:29:20 AM PDT by Starve The Beast (I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
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To: Always Right

The other day my four year old was wearing shorts on his head. I had to tell him doing that was considered a form of torture to some people.


32 posted on 06/10/2004 9:30:00 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy (Rest in Peace, Mr. President!)
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To: neverdem

REMEMBER THIS SOROS, JUST A YEAR AGO, ON JUNE 10,2003? Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has been fined 2.2m euros (£1.4m; $2.3m) for insider trading. A Paris court found Mr Soros guilty of profiting from inside knowledge of a 1988 takeover bid for Societe Generale, a French bank. Mr Soros, who was not in court, denied the allegations. In a statement he said he was "astounded and dismayed" by the ruling, and would "appeal the decision to the highest level necessary". "Let me repeat now what I have maintained from the start: at no point was I in possession of inside information regarding Societe Generale," he said. "The charges against me are unfounded and without merit." His lawyers had argued that the incident was too far in the past to achieve a fair trial. Two of his co-defendants, Lebanese financier Samir Traboulsi and Jean-Charles Naouri, an aide to former finance minister Pierre Beregevoy, were acquitted. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2978238.stm

33 posted on 06/10/2004 9:31:37 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: neverdem

I know we don't do business this way in the US, but I keep having this vision of a MOAB floating down and .... :=)


34 posted on 06/10/2004 9:40:06 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: gunnygail

"My plan to attend.

1. Eat a SH*TLOAD of KimChee
2. Eat a HUGE BOWL of refried beans.
3. Eat six or eight pickled eggs.
4. Down a sixer of Guiness Stout (the CO2 gives "hang-time")
5. Attend meeting.
6. Fart like there was no tomorrow!"

Man, if those weren't democrats you were gassing, I'd have to call in a hazmat team. Whew!


35 posted on 06/10/2004 9:47:19 AM PDT by manic4organic (Go. Fight. Win.)
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To: Paul Atreides
Liberal Democrats:

Wrong about Lincoln.

Wrong about Reagan.

Wrong about Clinton.

And now wrong about Bush.

One thing's for sure. The libs are consistent...

Consistently wrong!

36 posted on 06/10/2004 10:06:32 AM PDT by GBA
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To: Poohbah
"Mad Dawg"

Very Important: TWO G's

Mad Dawgg

37 posted on 06/10/2004 10:12:54 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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