Practicalmadness

Billionaire financier and outspoken Bush opponent George Soros (late of his war of words with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who implied that Soros was a drug kingpin) has just started his own blog.

Many people have written to me with questions about Kerry. Here is one such comment and my response.

Comment: You are wrong sir. John Kerry would make us much more vulnerable to terrorists. How can anyone with any sense support a candidate who continues to change his position on Iraq 36 days from the election. I won’t, and I know most of my employees won’t, and I know most of the people that I know who are small business owners won’t either. The war on terror is the number one issue of this campaign.

My response: If you took the trouble to read my message, it may change your mind. You may come to realize that Bush has made us more vulnerable to terrorists than Kerry would. Calling Kerry a flip-flopper is a smear that has worked all too well. As Kerry himself pointed out in the first Presidential debate, “Well, you know when I talked about the $87 billion I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?”

See, kids? Sometimes you can be rich and powerful without being one of the bad guys.