George Soros: "I quit"

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"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.

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Hopefully this will be a lesson for anyone else who wants to BUY an election.

Oh I don't know, it seems to have been working pretty well for the mega-rich Republican financiers so far.

I'm still waiting for the candidate to come forward and announce he will only accept funding from the individual contributor up to the maximum level they can donate (which is what, $2000 or something?).  I wonder how well that would play out during an election if they shunned all corporate, special interest, and any other large third-party donations from their campaigns.

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Hopefully this will be a lesson for anyone else who wants to BUY an election.

Oh I don't know, it seems to have been working pretty well for the mega-rich Republican financiers so far.

I'm still waiting for the candidate to come forward and announce he will only accept funding from the individual contributor up to the maximum level they can donate (which is what, $2000 or something?).  I wonder how well that would play out during an election if they shunned all corporate, special interest, and any other large third-party donations from their campaigns.

Probably not very well, really.  I mean, how likely would you be to swing your vote just based on that?  It's probably more effort than the end results would justify.  After all, it would entirely frame the campaign, but people would get sick of hearing about it.

One could always hope.