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2004-11-02 Home Front: Politix
Why I Have Campaigned Across America for Kerry
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Posted by Fred 2004-11-02 12:13:31 PM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The writer is an Anti-American financier and pro-tyranny philanthropist.
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-02 6:27:55 PM||   2004-11-02 6:27:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The sheer hypocrisy of this man is staggering. All my experience in fostering democracy and open society has taught me that democracy cannot be imposed by military means.
Soros has caused more human misery and done more to set back the march of freedom and democracy than almost anyone in the world not in Government service. His currency manipulation and speculation in the 90's brought him immense profits, but destabilized and almost destroyed the economies of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, the Phillipines, and rattled their neighbors. That this slime is supporting Kerry makes me wonder where the profit for him will be.
Posted by RWV 2004-11-02 6:38:55 PM||   2004-11-02 6:38:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Is that because he's voting Kerry instead of Bush?
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-11-02 6:46:44 PM||   2004-11-02 6:46:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Aye, Satan, yer queen$dom shall fall.
Posted by Mac Suirtain 2004-11-02 6:47:47 PM||   2004-11-02 6:47:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep, that's it Aris. Right again.
Posted by Shipman 2004-11-02 6:56:55 PM||   2004-11-02 6:56:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 My response to this is to point out that Karl Popper would campaign across America for Bush. I suggest Mr. Soros goes back and reads The Open Society and Its Enemies, and see if he recognizes himself in his mentor's descriptions.
Posted by phil_b 2004-11-02 6:58:15 PM||   2004-11-02 6:58:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "All my experience in fostering democracy and open society has taught me that democracy cannot be imposed by military means."
Excuse me? Ever heard of Japan, Germany, and South Korea -- not to mention the United States of America? And that's just the tip of the iceberg, you nutcase.
Posted by Tom 2004-11-02 7:30:55 PM||   2004-11-02 7:30:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "The war on terror is an abstraction."
Good God! I can't read another word!
Posted by Tom 2004-11-02 7:32:39 PM||   2004-11-02 7:32:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 RWV
I don't think Soros is quite the devil you make him out to be. The currency speculation you mentioned was not the only thing that almost destroyed the economies of the countries you mentioned. Those countries borrowed heavily from the World Bank, etc. and used the funds for inefficient projects. The currency speculation did precipitate the crises but had the crises not occurred when it did, the ultimate effects might have been worse.

Soros's charities have also been used to build some of the democratic institutions in the former Soviet empire. Yes, its true that Soros wants these institutions built in a way that will make markets open for his hedge fund investments, but notwithstanding the motive, the democratic institutions have been built.
Posted by mhw 2004-11-02 8:29:57 PM||   2004-11-02 8:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd look at the polls. I think america might be about to rejoin the world after 4 years of madness.
Posted by 4 more years! of kerry! 2004-11-02 8:31:20 PM||   2004-11-02 8:31:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank God for Kerry! He will lead the EU into Iraq!
Posted by Shipman 2004-11-02 8:33:07 PM||   2004-11-02 8:33:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm just waiting for Bush to declare the vote illegal and restart the confederacy.
Posted by 4 more years! of kerry! 2004-11-02 8:39:13 PM||   2004-11-02 8:39:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 That would be great if they'd follow, but they had the whole Kerry campaign and they never volunteered. I wonder why. Does the "plan" take that into account? [rolls eyes at lame "4 more years! of kerry!" and shuts down browser]
Posted by Tom 2004-11-02 8:45:18 PM||   2004-11-02 8:45:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Soros...Move to the UK. The Brits love you as much as we US Conservatives.

Go screw yourself, Soros.
Posted by anymouse  2004-11-02 9:24:37 PM||   2004-11-02 9:24:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Soros is certainly no 'philanthropist'. Though 'misanthropist' just doesn't seem to do him justice either. He's much worse than that.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-11-02 9:40:13 PM||   2004-11-02 9:40:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I say we raise the tax rate on currency speculators to 250% of their current worth and make it legal to grab them by the ankles and bang their pointy little heads against a convienient curb looking for loose change.
Posted by Darth VAda  2004-11-02 10:42:03 PM||   2004-11-02 10:42:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 mhw, true, but it was Soros' assault on the Ringgit and the Baht that was the tipping point for the currency crisis. He didn't create the underlying problem, but he ruthlessly exploited it.
Posted by RWV 2004-11-02 11:12:18 PM||   2004-11-02 11:12:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Soros is a fundamentalist atheist. He can't stand it, that Bush is a believer.
Posted by Jabba the Nutt  2004-11-02 11:44:58 PM||   2004-11-02 11:44:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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23:40 Cyber Sarge
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22:24 Don
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21:49 trailing wife
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20:39 4 more years! of kerry!
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20:31 4 more years! of kerry!
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