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All in all a cogent comment, but whether we can hang it on Klaus or even determine that it appeared in a Prague newspaper editorial is yet to be pinned down. It sounds just too deliciously correct-- too "true" to be true.

If it is an accurate quote in its entirety, then he hit the nail on the head.
If the 'quote' was manufactured, in whole or part, what it says is still accurate.
And very scary.

You Yanks gotta get rid of that "no foreign born presidents" thingy.

Vaclav Havel would be a somewhat slightly better president of the USA than that Kenyan laddie, you know, wossname, the last King of Scotland.

Sadly the quote is true. Whether Vaclav Havel said it or not is irrelevant.

Well, attribution is irrelevant. We listen but we do not hear. Cicero said it a few centuries ago, I betcha others have expressed the same sentiments along the line. Maybe Jefferson or Madison, one a them guys.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." — Marcus Cicero

Uhm, it said Vaclav Klaus, not Havel.
Havel died in 2003.
So if Havel really did say that, it would be truly extraordinary.
I tried to find it in Snopes and some other sites that authenticate stuff on the net.
Nothing definitive, either way.

The origins of that statement are uncertain, but the truth of it is absolute. It doesn't really matter who said it or where it came from.

To eliminate the cancer you must terminate the host. Freedomists will win in the end.

You got it ghost. Once the rot gets past a certain point it would be diminishing returns to revive the host. Triage, clean slate.

The water flows, the rocks remain.

After this president leaves office the MSM will make some effort to do their job and report on what he has done. Some in his administration will write books and tell secrets about what he has done. If we are really lucky and get a conservative in the presidency and a Republican congress maybe they will appoing some special porsecutors to discover what this president has done TO US. Nothng would make me happier then to see some of his cabinet members go to jail and lower appointees perp-walked off to justice. But I fear that Hillary or some other left wing communist look-alike will get elected and the facts will be buried forever. But make no mistake this is the most dishonest presidency in our history and he may well have guaranteed a terrible economic collapse and even a possible world war.

Well, the photo is of Vaclav Klaus; no idea if the quote is attributed correctly. But I would agree that the other Vaclav (Havel) would make a better president than our current one, even from the grave he's occupied since December 2011 (not 2003).

waltj,
Thanks for the correction.
He was only in office until 2003. My error.
I have to agree with you though.
Hell, his (Havel's) remains would make a better president than what we presently have.

Whomever it was that expressed those exact words, since I first read it it has occupied a place of honor on my sidebar.

Tim P, the contents of my cats' litter boxes would make a better president than the one we have now.