i've never heard of the man, but now he's my hero

From the The Washington Post:

Soros, who has financed efforts to promote open societies in more than 50 countries around the world, is bringing the fight home, he said. On Monday, he and a partner committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions to oust Bush.

Overnight, Soros, 74, has become the major financial player of the left. He has elicited cries of foul play from the right. And with a tight nod, he pledged: "If necessary, I would give more money."

"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," Soros said. Then he smiled: "And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."

Soros believes that a "supremacist ideology" guides this White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans." It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit ("The enemy is listening"). "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me," he said in a soft Hungarian accent.

This is so cool on so many levels. First, it brings me hope that there could really be an end to the reign of Bush in the next year. Secondly, it was because the abundance of huge individual donators to Republican candidates and causes that Republicans have often stopped any true reform to campaign finance reform from going through (for the record, I'm all for publicly funded campaigns, but that's another story for another day). Soros is now donating to the democrats huge amounts of money that surpass the money that Republicans have been able to get from their sponsors and so has Republicans screaming foul...because their own game is being used against them...and they're losing in a big big way.

My goodness...I love irony.