SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats

[Segami]

George Soros, the billionaire financier who was an energetic Democratic donor in the last several election cycles but is sitting this one out, is not feeling optimistic about Democratic prospects.


“I made an exception getting involved in 2004,” Mr. Soros, 80, said in a brief interview Friday at a forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee, which promotes understanding of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.


“And since I didn’t succeed in 2004, I remained engaged in 2006 and 2008. But I’m basically not a party man. I’d just been forced into that situation by what I considered the excesses of the Bush administration.”


Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”


<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/soros-i-cant-stop-a-republican-avalanche/?partner=rss&emc=rss>

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[stray cat]

1. Sounds like a DUer

[Bluebear]

38. If you hate DU so much why are you here commenting?

[POAS]

39. I looked and looked for the statement

from stray cat that says anything like "I hate DU". Perhaps you needs new glasses or crystal ball.

[Bluebear]

50. Yeah perhaps.

:crazy:

[JTFrog]

42. Just to piss you off.

Duh.

:eyes:

[SargeUNN]

48. are you saying

to post at a site you have to like them? I post at Arizona Central which is my local paper's site which I find not a paper I agree with most of the time, but one that reaches enough of my fellow citizens of our area. So should I quit posting there because I don't care much for the site? Aren't you being a bit unfair?

[CBR]

2. And? nt

[MilesColtrane]

3. "I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

"You poor bastards are on your own."

[Segami]

4. Sounds that way, doesn't it?

[TheMadMonk]

25. When the "poor bastards" are standing at the bottom of the hilll...

...shouting and letting off fireworks, I don't blame the rich bastard for refusing to send good money after bad.

[Xithras]

5. This party is in trouble.

First the party apparatchik alienate the progressives and "professional left". Now they're alienating the big money backers.

Not good.

[bobbolink]

6. They made their deal with the devil.

The pay is coming due.

[cliffordu]

8. They...

I encourage you to explain who 'they' are and why you'd cast your narrow net within a website you so obviously dislike.

Also - what's YOUR agenda for dealing with the problems we seem to face, equally, but apparently separately???

[bobbolink]

11. Let me know when you ever feel equal to me.

OK?

Then we can talk.

Until then, my limit for smug has been reached today.

[cliffordu]

14. I feel less than equal to your self pity.

I've lived in abject poverty for years before.

Don't pull the poor me card, I ain't buying.....

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[cliffordu]

20. blah de blah de blah.

When in doubt, call names, the worst, the better.

:eyes:

[bobbolink]

23. LOVE the blubbering!

I really do like your true self! :rofl:

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[mod mom]

45. They're finding out karma is a bitch. Why didn't they work on what they ran on?

instead of allowing industry insiders to direct policy? Some within the administration spent more time attacking progressives than the real opposition.

[treestar]

47. With the Republicans benefiting, that hardly makes sense

Since the Republicans ARE the devil.

[cliffordu]

7. ??

the party apparatchik

I thought we were tools of capitalists.

Will you make up your fucking mind, please??

[Xithras]

10. Apparatchik doesn't mean communist.

The word originated in the USSR, but nowadays it's more often used a generic term for those who are "agents of the apparatus", or, more plainly, those who actively promote and defend the status quo. Those who place political loyalty above all else. The "My Party, Right or Wrong" types.

[Greyhound]

37. Product of the Amerikun edumakashanal system,

have some pity.

But, he's really buffed out and ready to kick some ass!
:rofl:

[Tesha]

9. It's okay; it's all working out according to their pan-dimensional chess game, sure to...

...play out in our favor in the year sqr(-1).

Tesha

[spanone]

12. he thinks he's gonna be on the winning side...good luck with that george

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

15. He's not going to start giving to RW causes

[scarletwoman]

13. Fine by me. Soros is a neoliberal, conniving asshole anyway.

The Dems are losing popular support because they've proved themselves incompetent and weak when it comes to taking care of the working class.

sw

[Catherina]

19. Just shows you how bad things have gotten when neoliberals are being crowded out

by people even more to their right who have even less of a conscience.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. What a hoot!

The replies to this news are pretty much all negative. The thread title is unkind to Soros. None of the comments are in his support. That may or may not be right, but that's the fact.

So instead of kicking this to the greatest page, where it will be seen by all and in that process hold Soros up for more derision, it gets unreced, keeping it hidden.

Seems to me that if one is unhappy with Soros, one would be inclined to rec this, not unrec it.

Oh well, that's why they make chocolate and vanilla. Different strokes for different folks.

[Catherina]

21. This is not the age of transparency or openness. I recced of course. n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

32. We've had the unrec function for over a year and people still dont know how it works

Do you think this is one of the best threads on DU? Really?

*THAT* is what "Rec" is supposed to mean.

[Stinky The Clown]

44. Let's talk about the thread . . . . .

. . . . Now, I have no personal stake in this thread. If Soros doesn't want to give money, I couldn't care less. But clearly a lot of people do care and based on that, chose to reply to this thread. Since the thread's OP had a negative tone, and many people agree with that negative tone, it seems to me they'd want that where more people would see it - the Greatest Page.

Instead, what seems to have happened here is they replied with appropriate negativity and then, just to be as negative as possible, unreced the thread.

How many threads get unreced for a similar reason?

Should this have been on the Greatest Page?

Neither your opinion nor mine matter.

And have you noticed? There is not a thread posted that doesn't get reced or unreced. When the unrec got added, everyone felt the need to vote on every damned thing they read.

[aikoaiko]

22. If he was involved only because he was anti-Bush as he says then he wasn't donating anyway.

Oh well.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

34. That's what he explicitly says in the article- "I AM NOT A PARTY MAN"

But somehow that becomes "I was a Democrat but not anymore because I hate the Dems now!"

Either people didn't read the article or they did read the article and are hoping nobody else did.

[Segami]

24. UN-rec. Trolls out in force.

[blogslut]

26. Good

Now the wingnuts will look wingnuttier when they cite this man as the monolithic moneybags behind all liberal/progressive organizations.

[Amonester]

29. They don't know, and they tell this to others who know less than them...

which is not much.

[Jakes Progress]

27. We don't need no stinking billionaires.

We got our corporate money to keep us warm.

[Canuckistanian]

28. Well, that's it, then

Soros was our SOLE funder of LW causes.

Media Matters? Gone. CODEPINK? Vanished. MOVEON? Extinct.

Might as well pack it all in and assume the position.....

[jillan]

30. You hear that Repugs??? You'll have to find yourself a new talking point.

As for Soros - he'll be back. Once a Dem, always a dem ;)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

31. Where does he say he's done donating to Democrats? I can't find that quote...

[tavalon]

33. Well, at least he's still donating to liberal causes

[Hekate]

36. Not exactly what he said. For a more accurate representation...

Read this post, which is from the same link but is more honest in presentation:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9298772&mesg_id=9298772

Also, just read the article at the link.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/soros-i-cant-stop-a-republican-avalanche

Hekate

[cornermouse]

41. That's an extremely fine hair you're splitting.

The only difference is the subject line. Everything else is identical.

[Hekate]

49. The subject line is false and misleading, okay? That's not a fine hair.

[DCBob]

40. Part of this I suspect is that Soros does not like being targeted by the RW..

as a liberal money bank and trying to influence elections with his cash clout.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. And this, folks, is why we lose! You never hear Republican billionnaires

giving up on Republicans, no matter how bad the "prospects" are. It's very sad.

We don't have George anymore, then that's a terrible sign.

What about Hollywood donations? We don't even get those much anymore.

This is why we lose all the time.

Good luck, Mr. Soros. Perhaps you can now join DU.

[flamingdem]

46. False Subject Line Alert: He's not "done" donating to Democrats

He's just waiting until 2012 no doubt and stepping out of the fire from the right wing for a particularly ugly election cycle.