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George Soros Buys the Nomination, Obama Borrows It
by Ed Hamler
The ongoing 2008 Presidential election represents Soros’
importation of the techniques he has utilized for popular
subversion in foreign lands to the U.S. political process.
MoveOn.org, an organization hugely funded by George
Soros, played a central role in Barack Obama’s capture of
the Democratic nomination, despite Hillary Clinton’s clear
superiority in the popular vote. Although positioned as a
pro-Obama instrument long before, as of February of 2008,
MoveOn officially backed Obama’s campaign, sending him
an army of “volunteers” and an established money machine
and fundraising base. As Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly
warned, Obama himself is a throwaway in the financial oligarchy’s
plan to capture the Presidency of the United States
under conditions of economic collapse. He was promoted to
destroy the Clinton candidacy and its potential for a Rooseveltian
solution to the financial collapse.
MoveOn.Org
MoveOn.org got its start in 1998, receiving major support
from the most fascist Democrats in the party, Joe Lieberman
and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to censure President Clinton
overthe Monica Lewinskyscandal. Faced in 1998 with aworldwide
economic collapse, President Clinton called for a “new
financial architecture,” echoing Lyndon LaRouche’s call for a
New Bretton Woods financial system. Soros, at the same time,
engaged in currency warfare, which intentionally collapsed the
Thai baht, the ringgit of Malaysia, and the lira in Italy. In short
order after the President called for a new financial architecture,
the Lewinsky scandal blew-up. The Newt Gingrich-led Congress,
along with Al Gore’s treasonous faction inside the Democratic
Party fed the ensuing media frenzy, effectively destroying
the Clinton Administration’s economic program in its
remaining years. In its drive to censure President Clinton,
MoveOn demonstrated a proclivity for political prostitution,
appreciated by Soros’ controllers. Soros moved to buy up
MoveOn. By 2004, MoveOn, the so-called “grassroots” organization,
was practically owned by George Soros.
According to a Michelle Goldberg article in Salon.com,1
this process began in 2003. Soros and his associates had decided
to pour tons of money into the MoveOn coffers. The
total contributed from 2003-04 was about $6.2 million dollars,
the largest “soft money” contribution ever. During
1. Michelle Goldberg, “MoveOn Moves Up,” Salon.com, Dec. 1, 2003.
2003-04, Soros and MoveOn heavily backed Wall Street
suckling Howard “Scream” Dean for President. They later
mobilized to ensure him a comfortable seat as Chairman of
the Democratic Party to do what he does best: lose! As chairman,
Dean’s mission has been to demoralize the lower 80% of
income brackets (the true base of the Democratic party) while
recruiting white collar and affluent professionals, MySpaceaddicted
youth, and as many minorities and trade unionists
who will sell their souls as a new “Democratic majority.” Despite
Dean’s sabotage, the American population gave the
Democrats a resounding victory in the 2006 mid-term election,
turning out in record numbers to vote on the basis of
ending the war and fixing the economy. But by October of the
next year, Congress’ support from the population fell, from
80% to below that of President Bush, due to Dean and Pelosi’s
roles in blocking any initiative to reverse the damage wreaked
by Bush and Cheney. Mission accomplished.
MoveOn also played an active and significant role in the
pressure campaign to make sure Senator Clinton dropped out
of the race for President, thus acting as a front organization for
Soros and his masters. MoveOn.org sent out a sophistry-
ridden e-mail petition, ironically attacking Clinton for putting
pressure on the superdelegates for support. It called on the superdelegates
to let the voters decide who the Democratic
nominee will be:
“Stand up for Democracy in the Democratic Party.
“A group of millionaire Democratic donors are threatening
to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because Nancy
Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates, should
decide the Presidential nomination.
“They’re Clinton supporters and they’re trying to use their
high-roller status to strongarm the Democratic leaders.
“So let’s tell Nancy Pelosi that if she keeps standing up for
regular Americans, thousands of us will have her back.
“A compiled petition with your individual comment will
be presented to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic
leadership.
“Full petition text:
“The Democratic nomination should be decided by the
voters—not by superdelegates or party high-rollers. We’ve
given money—and time—to progressive candidates and
causes, and we’ll support Speaker Pelosi and others who stand
up for Democracy in the Democratic Party.”
Of course, when Senator Clinton won the popular vote
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and the real high-rollers of the
Photo: John Pettitt / DeanForAmerica.com
Howard “Scream” Dean
and other pressure tactics known
world and the party establishment
to have been utilized against suunited
behind Obama, MoveOn
perdelegates, one wonders what
stood fully exposed as the expend-
might have been brought against
able creation of these same forces.
Edwards concerning the funding
Since Senator Clinton actually
of the programs dearest to him?
wonthepopularvote,willMoveOn
stand by its original statement?
Barack Obama
Never one to miss an “oppor-
Obama himself has been
tunity,” Soros also personally prof-
blessed with Soros’ “soft money”
ited from one of MoveOn’s biggest
since he was an Illinois state senapolitical
campaigns. In 2006,
tor. Obama’s career in national pol-
MoveOn and the Center for Amer
itics was catapulted by George
ican Progress waged a campaign
Soros’pool of dough during his run
against Cheney’s Halliburton. Hal-
for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
liburton’s stock dropped from $40
Throughout that campaign year,
to $26 a share. While MoveOn
Soros kept tabs on Obama. On July
railed against Halliburton, Soros
4, 2004, one month before the Demgradually
bought1,999,450 shares.
ocratic Nominating Convention in
By December 2006, these shares
Boston, Obama was the only candi
comprised more than 2% of his
total portfolio, making Halliburton
the Soros Fund Management’s biggest investment that
year. Then, the attacks on Halliburton stopped, and the stock
value began climbing, climbing all the way up to today’s $50/
share.
Democracy Alliance
One further maneuver in Soros’ effort to take over the
Democratic Party was his formation of the Democracy Alliance.
In 2005, George Soros and 70 millionaires and billionaires
got together to discuss further prospects for buying up the
Democratic Party. On July 27, 2006 the Washington Post reported
that there was a requirement that every member of the
Democratic Alliance give $200,000 to the organization, but
most members gave more, and Soros was one of the top three
contributors. Democratic Alliance funds were thrown into organizations
like the Center for American Progress (CAP) and
theAssociation of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN). These organizations also played a role in operations
against Senator Clinton in the primary campaign.
For example, on May 13, the day of the West Virginia primary,
John Edwards publicly stated his neutral position concerning
which candidate he would back for President until the
nominating convention in August. A day later he came out to
endorse Obama, following Obama’s defeat by Senator Clinton
by huge margins in the West Virginia primary. Edwards
thus participated in a public spectacle meant to take the sting
away from the millions of votes Clinton received from the
poorest state in the nation. Edwards had just launched an antipoverty
campaign called “Half-In-Ten,” which proposes to
cut poverty in half in the next ten years. Edwards anti-poverty
campaign received significant funding from the Soros controlled
CAP and ACORN organizations. In addition to threats
date Soros personally met with that
year in Soros’ New York home.
This same year, Soros and his family raised $60,000 for Obama.
In 2006, Obama, as U.S. Senator for the state of Illinois,
had his sights set on bigger things. He met with Soros again in
his Manhattan office. That meeting lasted about an hour. Immediately
afterward, Soros introduced Obama to a dozen of
the biggest moneybags in politics, including financier and
hedge fund manager Orin Kramer and Union Bank of Switzerland
U.S. chief Robert Wolf. A week later Wolf had dinner
with Obama in Washington D.C. to craft his campaign strategy,
one month before Obama officially launched his Presidential
bid.
Obama announced his candidacy for President in January
2007. In just four months, Soros and Wolf raised $500,000 for
Obama. From April until the closing months of the primary
campaign season, Soros and his associates held a series of
fundraisers and practically guaranteed a steady flow of money
into his campaign. In fact, Soros played a major role in changing
how political campaigns are run in the United States,
through his support for the McCain-Feingold campaign
reform legislation in 2002. Soros’ Open Society claims that it
provided the key logistical support for the legislation by mobilizing
itself and other foundations to lobby for the legislation
and to raise the money needed to defend it against subsequent
court challenges. As a result of the McCain-Feingold
act and subsequent developments, PACs with wealthy sponsors,
like MoveOn, Internet-based “movements,” and wealthy
bundlers, like those who predominate in Obama’s campaign,
have taken the place of constituency organizations, and have
thus become the central focus of all political activity. So, after
the vast sums of cash that were thrown around, after key Clinton
support was simply bought off, should there be any mystery
as to how Obama apparently got the nomination?
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