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To: Jill who wrote (60289)	12/29/2003 6:05:34 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 65232

"Why is Soros' desire to defeat Bush hypocritical?" If you take my accurate assessment in proper context, it's easy to see. I said, "....he did a great job exposing.... Soros hypocritical willingness to throw millions at fringe liberal groups in order to defeat Bush.... The article explained this obvious hypocrisy quite clearly...... ....in 1972, Stone gave $2 million to Nixon's re-election effort. Campaign-finance reformers and other good-government types were horrified; they considered Mr. Stone's contribution so outsized and so corrupt that they made it Exhibit A in the case for what became the landmark Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974. Adjusted for inflation, Stone's gift would be nearly $9 million today. That's still a lot of money, but it's no longer enough to win the political generosity sweepstakes. That title is now held by the billionaire financier George Soros, who this year has given about $15 million to Democratic support groups like America Coming Together and MoveOn.org as part of a personal crusade to defeat George W. Bush in next year's elections. <font size=4> In the coming months, Mr. Soros will likely contribute even more; he has said that he would give every penny he had if it would guarantee the president's defeat. (And to think that just a short time ago Mr. Soros was avidly supporting campaign-finance reform groups, so dedicated was he to ridding politics of the corrupting influence of big money.) Move over, W. Clement Stone. George Soros really wants to change the world.<font size=3> Message 19634424 <font size=4> hypocrite - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold - one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; - a dissembler - Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler