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To: Rambi who wrote (26569)8/15/2006 10:29:05 AM
From: thames_sider  Respond to of 543495
 
He once said his primary goal, one he would give all his wealth for, was to defeat Bush.

Well, again according to Wiki, that was said as a joke...
He joked that he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat Bush, and many continue to state this as Soros' position even after Soros clarified the humorous nature of the statement in a Q&A session at the end of his March 3, 2004 address to California's Commonwealth Club.
en.wikipedia.org

However he's obviously pretty serious.

Agreed that he's a very ruthless businessman, however. Proof that you can be liberal and a capitalist, perhaps <g>