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One of the more interesting phenomena of the past few years has been the absolutely mindless adulation which our bien pensant friends in Europe have showered upon the man-god B.H. Obama.  Now I don't think much of their opinion in most matters, food and wine being the most obvious exceptions.  Fortunately there are some pockets of sanity, most notably in the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. 

Over the weekend a few people mailed me a quote which has been rocketing around the Internet:

“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 the 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 ltitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

I have been unable to source this, most references are a bit vague, e.g. "a reader of Prager Zeitung, a German language newspaper published in Prague".  My first thought was that Vaclav Havel must be a subscriber to that paper, such was the directness and sensibility of the comment.

Think about it for a second: what the anonymous writer says is true.  The American people, or at least some of them, have committed a nearly unpardonable dereliction of duty by voting for an unqualified and virtually unknown celebrity hologram.  Nobody of stature on the American political or journalistic scene has really put it into such terms, except perhaps Rush Limbaugh who is neither a politician or a journalist but a unique cultural force.  It has taken an unknown Czech to give voice to the blunt condemnation which is in the minds of more and more Americans each day.

The complicity of the media is absolute.  MSM opinion journalists have recently started commenting on the lack of vetting Obama received prior to his election, but it's hard o believe that they can do this with a straight face.  If they'd done their job during the primary season instead of devoting their time to the parentage of Trig Palin or John McCain's liver spots the American public would have had some of this information in time to possibly make a difference. 

The obtuseness of the MSM - intentional or otherwise - is stunning.  There has recently been a spate of articles explaining how Obama has "grown" in office or "grown into the job"; from the sound of them one might imagine that he was either a midget or an adolescent instead of the demigod their authors were perfervidly swooning over just two years ago.  "The Education of a President", which recently appeared in the New York Times Magazine, is typical of the genre.  While a good deal of it is sweet pablum and soft blue floodlights, there are a few bits of useful information in it.  For instance we're privileged to learn of this "Light dawning over Marblehead" moment, as the president suddenly realizes that "[T]here’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects" after several fruitless rounds of stimulus spending.

Wow.  Big of him to notice.  This from the man who insisted repeatedly, for months on end in 2009, that by funding "shovel-ready projects" he'd put America back to work and end the recession.  Except that it was b.s.  He either lied, or - more likely - had no idea what he was talking about.  This more than anything else, even including his politics, is the problem.  His policies are wildly unpopular, but they are also spectactularly ineffective.  America has survived bad policy and pad leadership before, but the critical thinking vacuum that has resulted in The Barack Obama Experiement poses a clear and present danger to the future of our nation.

We can't fully rectify our mistake for another two years, but in two weeks we'll have a chance to fit him for a political straitjacket which will enable sane adults to check his excesses, its possible that we may even force him to acknowledge reality and attempt to govern in a fashion more palatable to thinking Americans.