Buddy – Glad to have YOU push back on Soros. But (as I said) he’s not my guy – And he’s much closer to YOUR side than to Reds! For better and worse, as your eloquent – no irony – apology for Open Capitalist Societies underscores…

Appreciate your concern for those “millions of little savers” – Might consider pressing yourself a little harder there – Go back to that speed-up and realize some – Millions! – of workers you blithely advise to “resign” if they don’t like their time-on-the-cross might not have other options (even if as per Dick they might LIKE to have “other priorities”). I smiled when I read your response there. But, for real, it was heartless…Marx found more than a few folks who offered up your sort of sentiments back in the day – He made them pay for all time in his fierce footnotes. Somewhere in China right now, I bet there’s a guy sneaking a peak at one of the Old Moor’s hard lines and thinking ahead…

Wretch – you offered that “I’m not running for office” defense about 7 months ago. It was weak then – Weaker now. Be as HARD as you want on OBama. Hell, he almost made me, ah, retch, when I heard tell of cozying up to some lame tv newsman who was having a birthday – O came into the studio avec cupcake and candle. I don’t feature bow downing to suck-ups…

But when you ratchet up fears of Obama’s “fascistic” tendencies here, you’re amping up many Clubbers who are already locked on paranoid styles of politics. It’s, to use your phrase, anti-democratic.

Wretchs fascism line reminds me of a Leslie Fiedler story – Fiedler was a cultural critic who was way ahead of his time…Said/wrote many outrageously sharp things that pissed off P.C. types AND cultural conservatives..Anyway he was musing one time about how badly Germans responded to one of his lectures/panel performances. Fiedler “performed” when he was on stage – Never confused being entertaining/interesting with dumbing dowm. After the gig – one Hun explained to him – “Germans don’t like charisma.” They got an excuse…But Americans aren’t Germans. No reason to piss on a pol BECAUSE he has a gift (from God as my wife would say).