How could a relatively unknown state legislator become President-Elect in less than three years? You get by with a little help from your friends.

Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup. In many ways it is. The product is ideas.

Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.

For all those who guaranteed us that George Soros had NOTHING to do with creating and maintaining All that was the Barack Obama for President campaign, we now know that he not only funded the think-tank that maintained his policy infrastructure, but will now have the direct ear of the next president when it comes to crafting and implementing a socialist American society.

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