George Soros Regrets Supporting Obama, Eagerly Awaits President Hillary
Several weeks ago, we presented a list of CEOs and corporations who have had the highest number of direct visits to the White House and, by implication, president Obama. As we said, these are the corporations (and CEOs) who own the White House, and the US presidency .
One name oddly missing was that of George Soros: the billionaire liberal donor whose fundraising efforts have been critical for the Democratic party in recent years. Which is surprising considering the substantial backing, mostly financial, Soros provided in 2007 and 2008 to a then largely unknown Senator from Illinois.
Or perhaps it is not surprising: a 2012 New Yorker profile of the relationship between the US president and one of the left's most generous donors reveals stormy clouds:
"although he still supports Obama, Soros has been disappointed by him, both politically and personally. Small slights can loom large with wealthy donors. When Soros wanted to meet with Obama in Washington to discuss global economic problems, Obama’s staff failed to respond. Eventually, they arranged not a White House interview but, rather, a low-profile, private meeting in New York, when the President was in town for other business. Soros found this back-door treatment confounding. “He feels hurt,” a Democratic donor says."
Fast forward to December 31, when in the pre-New Year's lull, the State Department released its latest dump of Hillary Clinton emails, amounting to some 5,500 pages, a move Trump promptly slammed.
Do you believe that The State Department, on NEW YEAR'S EVE, just released more of Hillary's e-mails. They just want it all to end. BAD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2015
And while it will take the media a few days to parse through all the emails, one already stands out: one revealing not only the relationship between Soros and Obama, but more importantly, Soros and the person who will likely be America's next president.
As the following excerpt reveals, the abovementioned George Soros told a close Hillary Clinton ally in 2012 that he regretted supporting Barack Obama over her in the 2008 primaries and praised Clinton for giving him an open door to discuss policy, according to emails released Thursday by the State Department.
As first reported by Politico, in an email to Clinton, Neera Tanden, head of the Center for American Progress, recounted a conversation she had while seated next to Soros at a dinner sponsored by the liberal major donor club called Democracy Alliance.
After Tanden informed Soros that she had worked for Clinton during her bitter 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination against Obama, Tanden wrote that Soros “said he's been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and said he hasn't met with the President ever (though I thought he had). He then said he regretted his decision in the primary - he likes to admit mistakes when he makes them and that was one of them. He then extolled his work with you from your time as First Lady on."
The full email below:
Going back to the NY Mag 2012 article, it added that according to a source, although "Soros might have contributed far more money to Obama if the Administration had engaged with him more intently, he said, “Part of me respects Obama for not spending more time with him. This President doesn’t want to spend a lot of time with donors. You have to admire that.”"
Actually he does, as the chart up top shows it. However, for some odd reason Obama simply did not want to spend a lot of time with George Soros.
The time of snubbing Soros, however, is at an end, as Hillary is well-known for having no qualms about spending "a lot of time with donors", especially since virtually every entity on Wall Street is a donor either directly or to the Clinton Foundation.
Which means that as Obama's time in the White House runs out, and as Hillary prepares to take over the throne (barring some Republican miracle), Soros is about to rectify his mistake from 8 years ago and make sure that the special interest puppet in charge of the U.S., is precisely the one he wanted all along.
Then again, perhaps it is really just Obama's fault, and behind the charming facade is a pool of unlikability. According to another email released yeserday , this time citing Germany's foreign minister circa 2009, Germany's Angela Merkel despised the "Obama phenomenon:"
Sydney Blumenthal sent Clinton a memo on Sept. 30, 2009 with background information on John Kornblum, who was at the time taking over as Germany’s foreign minister. “Kornblum strongly suggests you try to develop your personal relationship with Merkel as you can,” Blumenthal writes.
“He says she dislikes the atmospherics surrounding the Obama phenomenon, that it’s contrary to her whole idea of politics and how to conduct oneself in general. She would welcome a more conversational relationship with you.”
Eight years later, all of America is eager to move on from the "Obama phenomenon." The problem is that the "Hillary phenomenon" is on deck.
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We conclude with a few lines from Ludwig von Mises who 80 years ago described and previewed this twisted, corrupted and politicized mutant that passes for modern "capitalism" in his essay "The Myth of the Failure Of Capitalism", which was published shortly before the coming of Adolf Hitler to power:
“In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an enterprise that the business should be managed in a way that it satisfies the demands of consumers in the best and least costly manner.
“It is far more important that one has ‘good relationships’ with the political authorities so that the interventions work to the advantage and not the disadvantage of the enterprise. A few marks’ more tariff protection for the products of the enterprise and a few marks’ less tariff for the raw materials used in the manufacturing process can be of far more benefit to the enterprise than the greatest care in managing the business.
“No matter how well an enterprise may be managed, it will fail if it does not know how to protect its interests in the drawing up of the custom rates, in the negotiations before the arbitration boards, and with the cartel authorities. To have ‘connections’ becomes more important that to produce well and cheaply.
“So the leadership positions within the enterprises are no longer achieved by men who understand how to organize companies and to direct production in the way the market situation demands, but by men who are well thought of ‘above’ and ‘below,’ men who understand how to get along well with the press and all the political parties, especially with the radicals, so that they and their company give no offense. It is that class of general directors that negotiate far more often with state functionaries and party leaders than with those from whom they buy or to whom they sell.
“Since it is a question of obtaining political favors for these enterprises, their directors must repay the politicians with favors. In recent years, there have been relatively few large enterprises that have not had to spend very considerable sums for various undertakings in spite of it being clear from the start that they would yield no profit. But in spite of the expected loss it had to be done for political reasons. Let us not even mention contributions for purposes unrelated to business – for campaign funds, public welfare organizations, and the like.
“Forces are becoming more and more generally accepted that aim at making the direction of large banks, industrial concerns, and stock corporations independent of the shareholders . . . The directors of large enterprises nowadays no longer think they need to give consideration to the interests of the shareholders, since they feel themselves thoroughly supported by the state and that they have interventionist public opinion behind them.
“In those countries in which statism has most fully gained control . . . they manage the affairs of their corporations with about as little concern for the firm’s profitability as do the directors of public enterprises. The result is ruin.
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Am I the only one that looks at that picture and thinks George has just grabbed her wrist and is going to make her grab his crotch? Not that it would do any good, I'd say he hasn't seen the top of his pecker in decades.
My Dear General, Soros suffers from the dreaded DickieDo. Alas, his belly hangs lower than his DICKIE DO...
Truth be told I thought it was some sort of masonic handshake..the other alternative is unspeakable.
Thinking about Obama and his governance and how many around the world, when he was elected had some hope of better, especially after the Bush era. We were and are more and more of us, terribly disappointed by his foreign policy and all the illegal surveillance.
First off, you were a contemptible FOOL for thinking there'd be ANY DIFFERENCE between Obama and Bush.
Now that you are WAKING THE FUCK UP, why don't you consider that being disappointed is a feeble response to the situation. You should be in a BLIND FUCKING RAGE.
Head out of butt, please. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE FROM ONE PARTY TO THE OTHER.
And socialism sucks. Quit wishing for it.
Hurt. Butt hurt.
Got "passed over" on a few dirty deals in war-ravaged areas.
This makes Top 10 Worst Soros Lies ever
Your list will become "War and Peace" should you choose to write it.
My contribution, written by Bob in Breckenridge.
Oldie but goodie.
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/02/20/the-real-george-soros-an-evil-d...
Hopefully George Soros will be dead fucking dead before the next election.
A terrible accident for the old bastard can always be arranged.
The noose awaits ye Georgi.
Soro's regrets toward obolo aren't likely rooted in policy or performance. It is more likely public reaction to said policy and performance.
Not nearly enough middle class boomer WASP's have been made dependent on the welfare state or exterminated by by age, corporate food or corp medicine to make the goal line rush into dismantlement of the nation state delivering ignorant, downtrodden youth into the arms of fascist global corporatism.
This time, the socialist corporatists have overreached by orders of magnitude in the given time frame.
(i failed to mention the evil machinations driving it all)
For Soros, Obama is so yesterday; Hillary is running now. How can you have access to the White House if you don't work for the occupant?
Ukraine is the top donor to the Clinton Foundation! Britain, SA, that makes sense as those are rich countries. Ukraine's economy is below the average for African nations, some shaddy deals are going on if they are at the top of this lise.
It was not Ukraine as a country that gave that money. It was one oligarch who made the donation. Probably to further his business interests.
It's called kickback. IMF and US support the oligrarchs and oligarchs say thank you.
That's a nifty list of corporations we need to destroy.
Well... Soros would be disapointed.
If Hillary & Trumps the only candidates? Your POTUS woild be Trump.
Imagine Trump as president and HIllary, Obama, Biden and Holder in federal prison.
Normally the new president follows this unwritten rule that they do not investigate nor prosecute the previous administration.
This ensures that they will also not be investigated and prosecuted after their time in office.
It is possible that Trump will not play that game.
We would be much better off if they all had not followed that "code". Then those who are running things at the present time would be afraid of consequences for their illegal acts.
You think that "unwritten code" came into effect right after Nixon was pardoned or after his AG was jailed?
I think it started when our 2 political parties each got their hands so deep in the public cookie jar that each could blackmail the other to death. Kind of like nuclear deterrence. Has enabled both parties to break the law and flaunt the Constitution with complete impunity.
...Soros found this back-door treatment confounding...
Well maybe GS might have researched his little puppet a little more thoroughly, down at the bath house.
Oh, I know I'm gonna get in trouble for this, but I just can't help myself.
George: Barry, you've been giving me the back door treatment.
Barry: you're welcome and the mint lube is awesome
Soros should have had a hard body Chippendale dancer in las Vegas make the appointment with Barry. Soros must not have that good of intel even with all his money.
Like choosing which terminal cancer you would like to have...
What country, other than Hades, is Soros a citizen of?
Soros' Wikipedia page suggests he is an American citizen.
Time to take a fucking flamethrower to the hot mess of shit.
The big-fuck corporations....burn.....baby.....burn
Cankles, The piece of shit Fuckabama.....die you cunts
Soros....someone impale the dirty fuck on a petard
Bankers....ESPECIALLY DIMON AND BLANKFEIN? Roast those cunts over an open flame, and let wolves rip them apart....
Bilderboogers....call in an airstrike...next circle jerk meeting
Interesting, that list of top contributors.
Typical list of asslickers looking for special treats, but:
Isn't Citigroup partially owned by Saudi Arabia?
And what's with The University of California- Isn't that a publicly funded organization?
How does that dollar flow work?
Soros is clearly one of David Icke's reptilians . . . . he couldn't possibly be human.
10 million ? I thought Ukraine was broke.
Maybe George is hosing Valerie Jarrett, a fellow Commie, and doesn't need to meet with Barry.
Hungarian PM Accuses Jewish Billionaire George Soros Of Supporting "Refugee" Invasion
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297431/Hungarian-Prime-Minister...
http://newobserveronline.com/orban-invasion-a-deliberate-leftist-plan/
Czech President Says Waves Of "Refugees" Are An Organized Invasion
http://www.ibtimes.com/czech-president-christmas-address-refugees-organi...
George Soros Admits To Involvement In Migrant Invasion
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-m...
george should have been smart enough to know to envite obama to lay golf..........DUH.........
LMAO!......Well, at least disapointment in a politician can transcend from poor to rich.....
Lousy politicians affect everyone equally......
The only reason a business man would support democrats is because he's getting something out of it. Why would a guy who escaped communist controlled Hungary vote for anyone that brings you closer to the communism you needed to escape from in your early life? Can you be rich and stupid?
Women like Hillary because she's a woman. It will have to be something very bad to change their minds.
Always foolish to generalize about people but my observation is that YOUNG women mostly like Hillary. Older women tend to have a better "BS-meter", especially when it comes to analyzing other women and their real character. Young women are more idealistic -- which is great -- but they don't have enough life-experience and have been so dumbed-down by kardashian-kulture to see when they're being suckered by snail-oil politicians who know how to push the right emotive buttons.
Hillary C may find it a tad harder to play the idealism card though given that she was part of Obama's Do-Nothing administration and Obama went hard on the "change you can believe in" and "yes, you can" sloganeering. There must be a LOT of disillusioned Obama voters out there. Still, if they can fake some kind of economic "recovery" this year, and if the Republican candidate is unelectable (Trump's mouth will cost him...the MSM will portray him as unstable) then they may sneak Hitlery across the line. God Help America...
He didn't get enough access according to the money he spent. He should have made a contract.
The only lesson Soros needs to learn now is to stay out of politics because his judgement is not as good as he thinks it is. You want to have big say so? Create your own party. Don't hide behind other people's party or NGOs.
Merkel does not like the "Obama phenomenon" but in Europe we are fed up with the "Merkel phenomenon". Oh, and we are also fed up with Soros.
Buyer's remorse?
Corporation should have to pay double tax on donations as really it is the stock holders that end up footing that bill. If you look at this as trusts, double taxation would apply: equal protection unto the law.
As for Soros, I'll bet that you would see him if you looked at stock shares and some one forgot to stuff a sock in that old man's mouth. Hillary has to be foaming (, but isn't she rabid anyway?).