Gordon Shumway wrote:

"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."


That's why we need "special interests" and "lobbyists" and "backroom deals,"
to counter the frenzy of the unwashed mob.

Still, as Lawrence J. Peter (founder of the "Peter Principle") said: "I have
been studying governments, man and boy, for forty years (he was a Canadian).
I have yet to discover whether we are being led by well-meaning fools or by
really bright people who are just putting us on."