Friday, June 04, 2004
From Reuters.com:
Soros, whose $11.5 billion Soros Fund Management is one of the world's largest hedge funds, has donated at least $15 million to groups like MoveOn.org and The Media Fund, which are working to help Democratic challenger John Kerry beat Bush in November.
"We have been deceived, and we have embarked on a policy that can't possibly succeed," said Soros, saying he was confident Bush would pay the price with a loss in November. The organizers convened the conference in a burst of optimism about the future of liberalism and the chances of beating Bush, whose approval ratings have dropped into the low or mid-40s amid the blizzard of bad news from Iraq.
But at a later speech at the National Press Club, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader criticized progressives for rushing to back Kerry even though he has not sided forcefully with them on many key issues. "They are not putting any demands on him," said Nader, whose Green Party White House bid in 2000 was blamed by many Democrats for the narrow loss to Bush by Al Gore. He said the failure to hold Kerry accountable would leave him free to ignore progressive viewpoints if he takes the White House.
Given the less than ideal scenario when faced with two options, none of which we are heartfelt about, more often than not we are forced to make a choice between the two. Lesser of the two evils, they say and inevitably it turns out that we've become unwitting participants to ambitious plans and political grandeur. This is a force to be reckoned with; crucial factors that tip the scale towards victorious campaigns and indifferent voters, all in our hands.
Hands, black white and brown, who belong to relative unknowns at bottom of Kerry's concerns, that is until now. Incidental supporters, to be exact, who would pick one candidate over another just because they do not want to see a victorious smirk on the other's face. Naturally, it does help matters if a rich and influential someone like Soros is part of the incidentals. By a mere stroke of luck, this is the 44th President, sworn into office solely on account of the incompetent other. Kerry, you just might be the luckiest man around one of these days.
Soros, whose $11.5 billion Soros Fund Management is one of the world's largest hedge funds, has donated at least $15 million to groups like MoveOn.org and The Media Fund, which are working to help Democratic challenger John Kerry beat Bush in November.
"We have been deceived, and we have embarked on a policy that can't possibly succeed," said Soros, saying he was confident Bush would pay the price with a loss in November. The organizers convened the conference in a burst of optimism about the future of liberalism and the chances of beating Bush, whose approval ratings have dropped into the low or mid-40s amid the blizzard of bad news from Iraq.
But at a later speech at the National Press Club, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader criticized progressives for rushing to back Kerry even though he has not sided forcefully with them on many key issues. "They are not putting any demands on him," said Nader, whose Green Party White House bid in 2000 was blamed by many Democrats for the narrow loss to Bush by Al Gore. He said the failure to hold Kerry accountable would leave him free to ignore progressive viewpoints if he takes the White House.
Given the less than ideal scenario when faced with two options, none of which we are heartfelt about, more often than not we are forced to make a choice between the two. Lesser of the two evils, they say and inevitably it turns out that we've become unwitting participants to ambitious plans and political grandeur. This is a force to be reckoned with; crucial factors that tip the scale towards victorious campaigns and indifferent voters, all in our hands.
Hands, black white and brown, who belong to relative unknowns at bottom of Kerry's concerns, that is until now. Incidental supporters, to be exact, who would pick one candidate over another just because they do not want to see a victorious smirk on the other's face. Naturally, it does help matters if a rich and influential someone like Soros is part of the incidentals. By a mere stroke of luck, this is the 44th President, sworn into office solely on account of the incompetent other. Kerry, you just might be the luckiest man around one of these days.
