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Title: Soros gives support to Obama
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International Herald Tribune
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Published: Jan 24, 2008
Author: Alan Cowell
Post Date: 2008-02-26 14:13:29 by Jethro Tull
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International Herald Tribune
01-24-2008
Soros gives support to Obama
Byline: Alan Cowell The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS
What's the latest chatter at the World Economic Forum? Here are excerpts from Davos Diary, a blog by our correspondents on the ground. To read more or respond, log on to www.iht.com/davos.
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At a lunch he gave Wednesday for reporters in a hotel here, George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire and former hedge fund manager who is a regular participant at Davos, vouchsafed regard for Barack Obama as a Democratic candidate in the U.S. presidential race - but, diplomatically, he kept the door open to Hillary Clinton, too.
"I personally support Obama, but I don't have any particular relationship," said Soros, who has sometimes been a contentious figure in criticizing American economic and political actions. "If he talks the way I talk, he would have no chance of getting elected. So I wish him well, but I don't talk to him." (Soros did help host a fund-raiser for Obama in May.)
Soros added that he had "very high regard" for what he depicted as Clinton's statesmanlike qualities. "I prefer Obama because I think he would bring more radical change," he said. "But if she is the candidate, I will be very supportive of her."
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Hedging his bets (money). He learned well in the hedge fund business. If McCain wins, Soros will be on the phone, " Hi John, glad we won"....
On Israel, America and Aipac, by George Soros.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Some of Soros's words in that article. Maybe he has decided that one Democratic politician may be able to do what he thought a year ago no politician in the Democratic Party would be able to do.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Soros added that he had "very high regard" for what he depicted as Clinton's statesmanlike qualities. "I prefer Obama because I think he would bring more radical change," he said. "But if she is the candidate, I will be very supportive of her."
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#3. To: All (#2)
Whether the Democratic Party can liberate itself from AIPAC's influence is highly doubtful. Any politician who dares to expose AIPAC's influence would incur its wrath; so very few can be expected to do so. It is up to the American Jewish community itself to rein in the organization that claims to represent it. But this is not possible without first disposing of the most insidious argument put forward by the defenders of the current policies: that the critics of Israel's policies of occupation, control, and repression on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem and Gaza engender anti-Semitism.
#4. To: Cynicom (#1)
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