J. Clarke wrote:

I wish Obama well, but I think he's going to go down in history as
another Jimmy Carter--a decent man without a clue.

I heard Lawrence J. Peter (the discoverer of "The Peter Principle") say: "I
have been studying governments, man and boy, for over forty years. I have
yet to determine whether we are being led by well-meaning fools or by really
intelligent people who are just putting us on."