Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292006/news/regionalnews/anti_w__oros__i_quit_politics_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nypost.com/seven/09 292006/news/regionalnews/anti_w__oros__i_quit_politics_regionalnews_maggie_haberman.htm</a> >>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." << Gee.. Has he seen is investment in Lamont go bad????
Originally Posted By DlandJB I used to work with Soros' Open Society and was very impressed with the work that they were doing at the time in the former Soviet Union. I think, however, that he got spread to thin, and like so many in power, began to believe his own press releases.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda No, he probably thinks that he'll be arrested and held in a secret location, not charged with anything, and unable to appeal or see a judge for several years.
Originally Posted By DAR Good now if some on the far right can follow his lead, politics in this country can get back to being respectable.
Originally Posted By DlandJB I vote for Richard Mellon Scaife. He's been awfully quite lately - but then he never seemed to like the spotlight.
