He is just a rich
Posted on 10/10/2004 1:56:26 PM PDT by freespirited
''Frankly, I don't think I'll need to do a lot more," Democratic philanthropist George Soros bragged to USA Today just a few months ago. "I now take the defeat of Bush more or less for granted."
Unfortunately for him, that defeat no longer seems so certain, so the billionaire, who had spent more than $15 million in an attempt to get John F. Kerry elected, is now trying to protect his earlier investments by throwing in an additional $3 million.
"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," says Soros. To save the world and prevent the re-election of George W. Bush, Soros has dedicated extraordinary amounts of time and money because defeating Bush, he says, is his "central focus." His motto, "If I spend enough, I will make it right," is the essence of his articulated ideas about changing society.
It seems that Soros believes he was anointed by God. "I fancied myself as some kind of god ... ," he once wrote. "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble."
When asked by Britain's Independent newspaper to elaborate on that passage, Soros said, "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."
Since I began to live it out. Those unfamiliar with Soros would probably dismiss the statement out of hand. But for those who have followed his career and sociopolitical endeavors, it cannot be taken quite so lightly.
Soros has proved that with the vast resources of money at his command he has the ability to make the once unthinkable acceptable. His work as a self-professed "amoral" financial speculator has left millions in poverty when their national currencies were devaluated, and he pumped so much cash into shaping former Soviet republics to his liking that he has bragged that the former Soviet empire is now the "Soros Empire."
Now he's turned his eye on the internal affairs of the United States. Today's United States, he writes in his latest book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, is a "threat to the world," run by a Republican Party that is the devil child of an unholy alliance between "market fundamentalists" and "religious fundamentalists." We have become a "supremacist" nation.
During a speech at Columbia University's commencement ceremonies, Soros said, "If President Bush is re-elected, we must ask the question, 'What is wrong with us?' " He has written that he always "felt that modern society in general and America in particular suffer from a deficiency of values."
Bush's aggressive waging of the war on terrorism has only increased these feelings. "When President Bush says, as he does frequently, that freedom will prevail, in fact he means that America will prevail," Soros writes. Who would Soros prefer to see "prevail"? Saddam Hussein? Osama bin Laden?
Despite his reputation as an international philanthropist, Soros remains candid about his true charitable tendencies. "I am sort of a deus ex machina, " Soros told The New York Times in 1994. "I am something unnatural. I'm very comfortable with my public persona because it is one I have created for myself. It represents what I like to be as distinct from what I really am. You know, in my personal capacity I'm not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I've very much self-centered."
Soros was more succinct when he explained his life philosophy to biographer Michael Kaufman. "I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact," he said.
But the speculator's visions don't end there.
"Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad," Soros once confided on British television. "In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it."
In his book, Soros on Soros, he says: "I do not accept the rules imposed by others. ... And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don't apply."
Clearly, Soros considers himself to be someone who is able to determine when the "normal rules" should and shouldn't apply.
I wonder if Soros has anything to do with the run up in oil prices...
Writing this spot down.
He's short on the dollar. Him and Buffet.
Bush puts America and Americans first. That is what Soros fears is the threat to the world. Clinton and now Kerry want every country subjects of the U.N. AND they and their ilk want to be in charge. Scary beyond belief.
Once he finally accepts his insanity, it will be easier to effect a cure.
Unfortunately, he is. But citizenship can be revoked for certain reasons. Just ask John Demjanjuk.
He is just a rich
Thank you for posting this article - shedding a bit of light on a very dark and evil subject. That man is the Anti-Christ incarnate!
. . somehow i think god would have better hair?
but hey! thats just me
'spirit' of the antichrist at least
A Piece of $h!t with money is still a Piece of $h!t
Just another run of the mill narcissistic sociopath with grandiose tendencies. Only this one has lots of money.
George Soros is the Lyndon LaRouche for the new millenium. After Kerry's defeat in 2004, Soros will be electoral poison. No candidate will ever again survive having his name associated with Soros, no matter how much money is thrown into the race.
Jew hating jew.
"a god" is his opinion.
"a madman with money" is reality.
He has a secret mountain lair, you know.
He's not crazy.
He's rich.
That means he's just 'eccentric.'
...that was sarcasm...
Last year, National Geographic had a cover story on Patagonia. Soros has bought up a huge amount of land there and he has convinced other billionaires, like Cher (IIRC) to do the same.
I think they believe there will be a nuclear exchange in the Northern Hemisphere and that Patagonia will be safe.
Anyone researching this should also look at Maurice Strong. He is just like Soros, but more reclusive. He is Canadian, IIRC.
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