The world according to book-author Richard Poe is a world full of George Soros.  Poe is like the guy who taps on your shoulder, asks if you want to look at some feelthy pictures.  His pictures are filthy, but he doesn’t make the sale.

He made his pitch Friday 9/11 at the monthly Catholic Citizens of Illinois luncheon at the Union League Club, where the fish gave me instant heartburn.  So did Poe, whose The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, co-authored with red-diaper baby David Horowitz, was available for purchase.

He sold me on buying the book — from ABE Books, cut-rate as usual — mainly with the purpose of seeing how well he makes his case in print.  I do know that when I asked him how and when the multi-billionaire currency speculator and hedge-fund manager Soros — “the Man Who Broke the Bank of England,” after he made a reported $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis — supported Obama, he offered no details.  I wasn’t badgering him, just looking for details of what is otherwise clear to me, Poe having brought it up in his speech  That’s where the devil is, right?  I like to smoke Satan out, preferring to know the enemy as well as possible.

Where, then, is Soros?  Per Poe, in the forty bodies of critical-care patients found in New Orleans after Katrina, put down by doctors and nurses, some of whom freely admitted it and were praised and were not convicted for it.  One was the doc, a “palliative care” expert, who described the patient who wouldn’t die from repeated injections — “He wouldn’t stop breathing” — until in desperation the old-fashioned method was employed: firm pressure of pillow to mouth and nose.  See what I mean about feelthy?

Palliative care, also called “comfort care”?  Poe: Soros gave it a boost in 1994 by throwing millions at The Project on Death in America, which funded palliative care training programs in hospitals throughout the nation.  In this he had the help of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, whch aims “to improve the health and health care of all Americans. . . . help our society transform itself for the better.” 

The founder Johnson is of Johnson & Johnson — think Band-Aids, Tylenol, Listerine, Visine, etc.  I recommend J&J products, as I recommend Catholic teaching about non-requirement of extraordinary means in keeping someone alive — something Poe never mentioned, being basically a muckraker and not a student of such matters.

Soros is a man with a plan, Poe explained.  His Open Society Institute, “building vibrant and tolerant democracies” per its site, is a worldwide network of cells and action centers which get into the thick of things, said Poe, such as coups and takeovers and, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the sale of government-owned assets — for a song, to selected “investors,” including himself. 

He doesn’t act alone, said Poe.  Of $300 million that funded MoveOn.org, his left-wing organization-cum-major web presence, he gave only $21 million.  Other rich men follow his lead, which he takes from the United Nations, said Poe.  He has no original ideas, except his life philosophy, developed as a kid under German rule and to this day governing his behavior: no rules when survival is threatened — and he feels threatened all the time, said Poe.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. Soros has his causes, all related to the 1973 new world order aimed at denuding America of its presumed excessive share of the world’s riches, cutting it down to the size of the wretched of the earth.  To which end he promotes (funds) shadow Catholic organizations such as the pro-abortion Catholics for Choice and Catholics United and the inter-denominational United Religions Initiative founded in 1996 by an Episcopal bishop and intended as a one-size-fits-all religious counterpart to the United Nations.

His projects also include planks of the leftist platform such as gun-control, repeal of don’t-ask-don’t-tell in the military — opposed in writing by thousands of generals, said Poe — and McCain and Feingold’s campaign-finance legislation, toward which Soros contributed millions in “bribes,” said Poe, who added that Wis. Sen. Feingold had once been tabbed by Saul Alinsky as a good candidate.

Don’t look for this stuff in mainline media, Poe advises.  Neither on the WorldWide Web, I have found, which is the trouble with his presentation — gossipy, sensational (making us wonder if sensationalized), inflammatory.  I, for one, was inflamed by it, and had to break away from the dining room as soon as he finished, suffering overload of feelthy-picture data grimly and desperately presented.  I look ahead to the book, when I can do a little sifting of wheat from chaff.