wow. talk about putting one's money where one's mouth is. soros has shrub's number, too
AM - Soros pledges millions to oust Bush
[This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s987257.htm]
AM - Wednesday, 12 November , 2003 08:24:56 Reporter: John Shovelan DAVID HARDAKER: The billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros says his main goal right now is to get US President George W. Bush out of office in 2004, and he's put his money where his mouth is, donating about $8-million to a left-wing group which has the same aim.
George Soros is worth about $10-billion, and he says there's more where that came from if it's needed.
From Washington John Shovelan reports.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Unseating President Bush is, according to George Soros, the "central focus" of his life. "America," he says "under Bush, is a danger to the world."
GEORGE SOROS: I think we are now being led by people who follow a false and dangerous ideology. They are normally referred to as neo-conservatives or neo-cons. I call them American supremacists.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Mr Soros is handing over $8-million to MoveOn.org, a left-wing group also opposed to the policies of President Bush, and which has begun a television advertising campaign to press its case.
EXCERPT FROM TELEVISION AD: If there's money for Iraq, why isn't there money for America? The truth is, we're not being led, we're being misled.
JOHN SHOVELAN: Soros has never hidden his dislike of the Bush administration, outlining it earlier to the Open Society Institute, but rarely has this been so bluntly put as today in an interview with the Washington Post.
Mr Soros says the supremacist ideology which he claims guides the White House is reminiscent of his childhood in occupied Hungary. He told the Post "when I hear Bush say you are either with us or against us, it reminds me of the Germans, conjuring," he went on, "a nazi slogan on the walls - the enemy is listening."
GEORGE SOROS: The United States, being in the dominant position that it is in, does have to take an active role in the world. It has to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but it has to do so as part of an international community. So by going it alone and imposing our will and riding rough-shod over the opinion of the rest of the world, we are disqualifying ourselves from playing that role, that by going about it the wrong way we are destroying our chances of being a constructive leader of the world.
JOHN SHOVELAN: The Soros campaign to defeat President Bush began several months ago, and he's so far contributed over $20-million to MoveOn.org and another group dedicated to mobilise voters in 17 battleground States expected to be the most tightly fought contests in the presidential election.
A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee said Mr Soros has purchased the Democratic Party.
[quite natural for a republican not to know the difference between a donation and a purchase]
John Shovelan, Washington.
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Quis custodiet istos custodes?
"Who will watch the watchers?" ~ "Who is to guard [us from] the guards themselves?"
-- Juvenal's Satires, VI. 347, circa 110 AD