Before the love affair with Barack Obama, there was the romance with Hillary Clinton. George Soros was firmly in Hillary's camp for 2008 until he wasn't. Hillary after all had had to weave and bob for the longest time in order to disguise how truly radical she was.
Deception at massive scales was becoming the norm in American politics as the hard left progressives infiltrated academia and the culture as well as the Democratic party.
Progressives, it must be remembered, usually begin as people who fervently desire to save the world and who end as people who fervently need to control the world and Hillary was no exception as the debacle of "HillaryCare" demonstrated.
Moreover throughout her 8 year term as First Lady, The Clinton White House had one or more scandals percolating often with her at the center : witness White Watergate, The Rose Law Firm billing records, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Lewinsky, bimbo eruptions, Impeachment, etc which all seemed to roll off Bill like water off a duck while it clung to the humorless Hillary like the faint traces of a bad perfume bought off a travelling salesman.
After a presidency during which she was famously billed as the "Co-President", she finally struck out on her own as the Jr. Senator from New York where her particular brand of celebrity was perfect for an electorate battered by joblessness, high taxes and utopian political fantasies that always ended in a nightmare.
The stop over in New York turned out to be an out of town tryout for the big prize...the Presidency. Former Clinton aides like John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, were already in place to assist in a coronation/restoration return of the Clintons to power and George Soros was more than willing to fund it and provide it with political and policy muscle.
And then Barack Obama walked onto the center stage of American politics and Soros fell in love. Obama was everything Hillary was not. He was young, attractive, hip, a prize winning author, articulate, wicked smart and as devious as Soros was rich...and he was half black and married to a glamorous woman with no signs of serial infidelity to muck up his image.
More importantly to Soros, Obama was a committed, up front , hard left progressive who was not ashamed of his Alinsky ideology which had marked him throughout his entire adult life. Nor did he have a handler who was a former President to prevent Soros from using him to bring his radical agenda for America to fruition.
Soros quickly realized that Obama possessed a celebrity "joie de vivre" that the often whiney and shrill Hillary lacked. His was the easy grace of a multi racial JFK who when he couldn't convince you with glib intellectual reasoning would would seduce you with glib but enticing banalities. After all by the time the Obama campaign entered its second year, school children were singing creepy North Korean like hymns to the exotic man from Hawaii and Indonesia and Illinois.
MoveOn.org, another Soros entity committed over a million volunteers to his 2008 election while the entire Soros network moved into high gear to deliver money and resources for a Presidential candidate who just four short years before was just another State Senator from the scandal plagued state of Illinois.
Obama triumphant in 2008 was the moment that Soros had always dreamed off. He had elected both a radical President and a Congress two years before, without principles who were more than willing to make the leap from liberal to progressive, all in the name of power.
And thus we got ObamaCare, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandals, the NSA scandals, the various DoJ scandals, Benghazi , the wholesale deterioration of American military, economic and political might in the world, the wholesale political purging of 13 senior military Generals and Flag Officers, and the impoverishment of the American middle class. Our allies became irrelevant as our enemies became attractive. The radical environmentalists, now in charge of the EPA are relentless in making sure that the country becomes jobless and poor in the name of a pseudo religion called climate change.
ObamaCare was the coup de grace of the fundamental change Obama and Soros lusted after. This was the fundamental change that would finally destroy American exceptionalism along with the promise and the dream of the founders. In its place would be a new American Reich dedicated to the proposition that government in the hands of the elites will make everyone equal by making everyone poor, dependent, compliant and relegated to fixed place in society...and thus we come to the realization that George Soros and George Orwell have been all this time, talking about the same thing.
ERLANDSSON
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