I was more dismissive before than I should have been. It's like the old adage that we can criticize family members but an outsider better not do it. So I didn't appreciate the U.S. being ridiculed in some Czech publication. In fact I liked Vaclav Havel, from what I know of his presidency, and don't know anything about the rest. Also in their favor IMO is that Prague is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and that they stood up to the USSR at the height of the Soviets' power.

Thoughts, Martina? She doesn't normally participate in chatter but I would be interested in what she has to say.

>Like they have a history of any better leaders...lol
>>Exerpt from http://www.urbansurvival.com
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>>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!