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Soros: Obama Was The “Greatest Disappointment”

One has to believe that Soros, in the era of an unstoppable Trump, is trying to reinvent himself as some sort of “friend to everyone,” both left and right.

What’s afoot here?

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New York billionaire George Soros is not a fan of former President Obama – telling the New York Times that Obama is his “greatest disappointment,” lamenting that he was “frozen out” by the administration despite his financial support.

Soros was an early backer of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. In Paris, Soros told me that Obama was “actually my greatest disappointment.” Prompted by an aide, he immediately qualified himself, saying that he hadn’t been disappointed by Obama’s presidency but felt let down on a professional level. While he had no desire for a formal role in the administration, he had hoped that Obama would seek his counsel, especially on financial and economic matters. Instead, he was frozen out. –NYT

“[Obama] made one phone call thanking me for my support, which was meant to last for five minutes, and I engaged him, and he had to spend another three minutes with me, so I dragged it out to eight minutes,” Soros said.

The liberal billionaire told the NYT that he was mostly disappointed because he had hoped to be consulted on economic and financial issues, and that Obama was known to “take his supporters for granted and to woo his opponents.”

After that, the 87-year-old financier was left out in the cold where he would subsequently focus his efforts on facilitating the wholesale transport of mostly North African migrants into Europe via human trafficking networks.

Soros also praised Senator John McCain and said the main priority of his political activism was to promote bipartisanship, explaining that Republicans on the far right led him to become one of the top funders for the Democratic Party.

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14 Comments on Soros: Obama Was The “Greatest Disappointment”

  1. … & … isn’t unrequited love so sad?

    Sorass must be regressing back to his childhood heartbreak of Adolph never calling him back & thanking him for turning over his fellow Jews to the Gestapo

    “boo hoo hoo …. after all I’ve done for you … & you won’t even return my phone calls …. boo hoo hoo” … whadda phuck is this? … junior high?

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  2. His first failure was to be a poor judge of character when investing in a party that rejects judgement of character.

    My comparatively meager investment in candidates over the years has been much more successful than yours, dollar for dollar, Georgie. I vet my candidates, make sure they’re people of good character, make sure they’re likeable, make sure they won’t disappoint or embarrass me. They win.

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  3. Wow, GS and I agree BHO was a great disappointment. But for very much different reasons.

    Actually I expected BHO to be terrible, and he was. But worse than I thought he could be. From GS’s measure of disappointment, BHO wasn’t terrible enough.

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