Reply #17: Be careful what you wish for

[ben_meyers]

1st, why would you assume he would speak out on anything? Do all black people think the same? That in itself is a bit of a stereotype.

2nd, Maybe he's a repub. One of his best friends and business partners is his neighbor and huge Bear Stearns investor Joseph Lewis.

Joe Lewis, the privacy-loving billionaire who, along with Daniel Levy, controls Tottenham Hotspur football club, has just taken one of his biggest gambles.

He has invested $860m for a 7 per cent stake in Bear Stearns, the investment bank that has been the worst casualty of this summer's credit market crisis, it was revealed yesterday.(snip)

Mr Lewis sponsors an annual charity event between residents of his two gated communities in Orlando, Florida, home to golf legends Tiger Woods and Ernie Els. It was the association between Woods and Mr Lewis that led to the world No 1's appearance at a tiny pro-am golf tournament in Limerick in 2000, and Mr Lewis once bid $1.4m to partner Woods at another charity event. The pair are firm friends. "Any time I have any kind of business venture that I might be leery of, I can run it by him," Tiger Woods said in an interview last year.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/sep2007/gb20070911_674570.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

Maybe Tiger prefers to stay out of politics making him very smart indeed.