Lynda Hurst
The ideas factory in Obama's Washington
In 2003, billionaire financier George Soros famously declared that removing Republican President George W. Bush from office had become "the central focus" of his life.
He wouldn't achieve his goal before Bush's two-term tenure had run its bleak course, but Soros did put his money where his mouth was.
With several other wealthy philanthropists equally horrified at the neocon ideology at work in the White House, Soros put up millions in seed money to reinvigorate the ...
