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JUST LIKE HITLER, CONT'D: Billionaire

JUST LIKE HITLER, CONT'D: Billionaire financier George Soros announced Tuesday that he is donating $5 million to the left wing website MoveOn.org, aimed at what he now considers his "life's mission"- defeating George W. Bush in next year's election. Campaign finance rules prevent gifts of that size from going to specific candidates, hence the donation to a mere website.
I'm not against donations of that size, and while Soros is certainly free to support (or oppose) whatever candidate he chooses, I had a bit of a problem with his explanation of why, which was a blatant violation of Godwin's Law:

“When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us or against us,’ it reminds me of the Germans.” It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (The enemy is listening): “My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me,” he said.

Funny that in hearing the challenge by the president of the United States to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, it was Bush who reminded him of the Nazis, and not the actual fascists we were and still are fighting. Because as we all know- aside from all the stuff about the Holocaust, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing, invading an entire continent, and a few other minor differences, Bush is Just Like Hitler!
By that rationale, George Soros himself was born in Eastern Europe. Just Like Hitler!

Posted by Stephen Silver at November 12, 2003 04:06 AM