Came across this quote in my local paper....and could not trace down the actual source....
Supposedly:
CZECH PRAGUE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE --
An article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon:
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a 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 fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."
snopes.com: Václav Klaus on Barack Obama
Although possibly mis-attributed, the veracity of the quote is undeniable.
One hears an echo of Milton Friedman's sentiment.....
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.
Who's to blame?
Had it not been the willing lever-pulling of so many benighted individuals, we wouldn't be in the fix we are now.
Supposedly:
CZECH PRAGUE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE --
An article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon:
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a 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 fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."
snopes.com: Václav Klaus on Barack Obama
Although possibly mis-attributed, the veracity of the quote is undeniable.
One hears an echo of Milton Friedman's sentiment.....
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.
Who's to blame?
Had it not been the willing lever-pulling of so many benighted individuals, we wouldn't be in the fix we are now.
... Not so much without his teleprompter actually
