>Exerpt from
http://www.urbansurvival.com>
>This quote was translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2011.
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>"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of Idiots such as those who made him their president."
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>Ain't it strange? Why is it I don't think a disgraced former speaker of the House would be any better? Seems to me the FSU (as in Former Soviet Union) countries have a keener sense of democracy than (gulp!) we do!
I'm hardly an Obama apologist but in googling a little to see what the political leanings of the German language Prager Zeitung were I ran across this :
http://ingunowners.com/forums/general_political_discussion/94385-the_prager_zeitungs_obama_article_email.htmlI would agree with "inexperienced" and the shortcomings of our electorate in being swaying by form over substance ( a failing not exclusive to left or right) but I also find viral email campaigns that misrepresent letters to the editor as editorial opinion to be part of the problem rather than a useful component of the solution.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
