Baseball and Politics

[stoutfellow]

This is completely insane.

George Soros, a major figure in Democratic fundraising, is a member of one group attempting to buy the Washington Nationals baseball franchise. Several Republican congressmen are threatening dire legislative consequences for Major League Baseball should his group succeed. As one of them said, "from a fan's perspective, who needs the politics?"

It is worth noting that, in 1989, the son of the President of the United States was the leading member of a group which purchased the Texas Rangers. (Whatever happened to that guy, anyway?)

More than a dozen present and former big-league owners were major fundraisers for the Bush campaign last year.

Who the hell do these people think they are?

Addendum: One of the other groups bidding for the Nationals includes former Secretary of State Colin Powell and one-time Nixon aide Fred Malek.

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Let's face facts

[profitne.livejournal.com]

Their biggest problem with George Soros is that he is a former Hungarian Jew who made it bigger with his financial dealings than they ever did or will and whose first major philanthropic investments were in Central Europe via his foundation rather than in the USA. The fact that he's put more than a fair bit of support into programs and groups here in the USA doesn't matter as long as he was giving money to organizations behind the Iron curtain. (The fact that some of those grants like mimeograph machines, copiers and computers helped to bring down the bloody thing only makes it worse in their eyes - he's a proven subversive damn it!)

They don't think he's a REAL (tm) American, and he is far too uncontrolled for their comfort. So the idea of him owning anything they want is horrible. It's just petty Anti-Semitism and economic competition prettied up as Patriotism and only their definition of it.

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