"ANTI-W. $OROS: I QUIT POLITICS"
Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on.
"In the future, I'd very much like to get disengaged from politics," Soros said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the Upper East Side. "I'm interested in policy and not in politics."
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Hopefully this will be a lesson for anyone else who wants to BUY an election.
What's the lesson to be learned? That you shouldn't try to pour massive amounts of money into political campaigns because you'll just end up not succeeding anyway, then quitting politics and perhaps suffereing a blow to your self-esteem as a result?
I understand what you are saying, but the point being he quit voluntarily.
In any event, I'm opposed to all wealthy folks putting undue influence on the election process regardless of their political affiliations, but I think that's something that's happened far more often from the right (directly and indirectly) than from the left.
In the long run the solution is publically funded campaigns and free air time for candidates. Let the election truly be a battle of ideas and not one of wealthy special interests.
