An unlikely leader for the anti-Bush offensive

An unlikely leader for the anti-Bush offensive
Financier Soros tells liberals that Abu Ghraib is 'moment of truth'

By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET June 04, 2004

FROM: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5137176/
WASHINGTON - The most interesting figure on the Democratic Left in America right now is a most unlikely political activist: currency speculator-turned-anti-Bush donor George Soros.

Soros was the intriguing new star at this week’s “Take Back America” conference, a gathering of more than 2,000 operatives, Democratic candidates and supporters of liberal causes.

Given celebrity treatment with an introduction by Sen. Hillary Clinton, Soros offered his “Take Back America” audience a diffident, but ideologically hard-edged speech, telling them the election “is a referendum on the Bush administration’s policies, the Bush doctrine, and its first application, which was the invasion of Iraq.” He denounced the policy of pre-emptive attack as “quite an atrocious proposition.”

He sketched out his theory that political power follows boom-bust cycles just as financial markets do. And Bush, he said, is now in his bust phase.

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The modern Conservative movement is entering its "Kondratieff winter".

If Kerry wins, they go out with a whimper. If Bush wins, the bangs have it.

--bkl

Most of this article is straight out of GOP talking points.