Currency speculator George Soros, sugar daddy of the Left, admits that in amassing his personal fortune estimated at $7 billion he hurt the underdeveloped world.
Confessing one's sins in public is quite practical. To the weak-minded for whom confession and reformation are identical, he's just swell to concede his imperfections.
Mr. Soros' Open Society Institute effervesces with practicality. It accepted nearly $30.5 million from the U.S. government from 1998-2003. It spent some $22 million in Uzbekistan on creation of a civil society.
It's practical cover for what Soros is all about.
Lest we forget, Soros was the chief financier of a project to defeat President Bush in 2004. The OSI supports the ACLU, the First Amendment-obliterating campaign finance reform and the International Criminal Court.
A Jew himself, Soros has chided Israel and the United States for goading European anti-Semitism. Indeed, any living Jew is excuse enough for European and Middle Eastern anti-Semitism. In Soros' world, there is practical value in Jews not being so Jewish.
Soros and his pragmatic friends known as the "Phoenix Group" now hope to set up left-leaning think tanks to contend with The Heritage Foundation.
We know those good folk. It's like Soros arriving with a dull knife at a gunfight. Not so practical, is it?
