George Soros Quotes
For 18 months after September 11, it was unpatriotic to criticize the President. That is how he was able to lead us into the War in Iraq. In normal times the proposed war would never have withstood the criticism.
George Soros, Financier & Philanthropist, Interview C-SPAN After Words, September 30, 2006
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The first non-PRI President in over 70 years.
He was a strong conservative who defended the George W, Bush administration, He was not alone in believing that in wartime, attacks and criticisms of the President and his administration give “aid and comfort to the enemy and weaken the nation’s resolve. However, he is almost unique in the level of hypocracy that he exhibited when a Democrat was next in the Presidency. The fact that we were in two major wars and incursions as well, did not inhibit him from viciously critizing President Barack Obama. He didn’t think this made him a “BAD” American and promptly forgot this quotation which came back to ic in haunt him.
In war time often we have behaved in ways we were embarrassed by in the fullness of time such as the internment of the Japanese Americans in WWII. The vast majority of the press was totally intimidated and any one who suggested that the administration might be wrong was not only accused of being themselves wrong but of being un-American and almost a traitor. O’Reiley probably did this better than most. History and events of course, showed later that these premises and claims were totally wrong. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and there was no Iraqi involvement in with Al Quaeda and September 11. Many people do not think O’Reily was a BAD American for being a ctitic in wartime and neither were the people he labeled as “BAD”. In a democracy, critism helps even if it is embarrassing to a particular administration.
He was responding to criticism that the media was bashing the President.
This is a classic libertarian position.
The Dixie Chicks were a female country singing group that originated in Dallas, Texas. The right wing supporters of President Bush were incensed, and the conservative Talk Show hosts pilloried Maines and the singing group in general. Ironically many of the same conservative pundits who so castigated the Dixie Chicks for their anti-war and anti-president rhetoric several years later were themselves attacking Bush and his Iraq War with far greater intensity and reach than the one small singing group–The Dixie Chicks. This quotation also gives us insight into the Tea Party and ultra Conservatives who were vehement and totally committed to attacking their enemies but who, in a short period of time, could totally flip flop as to who their enemies were. They were quick to jump onto bandwagons, loud and vigorous while they were on, but also quick to jump off.
Alluding to the practice of advisors and handlers scripting and packaging presidential candidates for conventions and debates:
See Carl Schurz {33636} for an 1872 version and G. K Chesterton for perspective {597471}.
George Soros, HonFBA is a Hungarian-born American billionaire investor and philanthropist. As of March 2021, he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion have already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune, making him the "most generous giver" (in terms of percentage of net worth) according to Forbes.
