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Obama’s America: The View from Prague
Power Line, by Steven Hayward

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Posted By:StormCnter, 11/19/2012 5:49:07 AM

Courtesy of some Facebook friends, a translation of an editorial from the Czech 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,

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/19/2012 6:18:37 AM     (No. 9023131)

Excellent evaluation coming from a rare overseas country with some common sense.
Of course it´s Obama voters who pose the real problem.The culture of gimme has overwhelmed us and Obama is he best enabler they´ve ever had.

There was no welfare magnet back during the Ellis Island days except maybe relatives who took people in until they got their feet on the ground. They came here penniless in a lot of cases and worked on a dream.They made this country it is today or what´s left of it.
They also came here to be Americans not a bunch of hyphenated Americans.You have 10´s of thousands of deserted manufacturing plants in the NE now and my opinion is the advent of organized labor was behind this.

The cost of hiring people today is so expensive,that employers have been corrupted into hiring under the table workers to avoid all these costs.Since they don´t pay taxes they get more bang for the buck even at a lower scale.

If you have to lay off an illegal worker,no big deal because it doesn´t raise your contribution to the unemployment fund.If they get injured,the employer self pays for their treatment,avoiding higher premiums on their workmans comp policies.

Drudge had a headline 2 weeks ago that 2 out of 3 people hired under Obeama were immigrants.The cost of hiring an American is just too steep.Only to get worse with Obamacare.Illegals are also carved out on paying for Obamacare.


Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley, 11/19/2012 6:18:46 AM     (No. 9023132)

Wise words from someone who has been where we are headed.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Lala, 11/19/2012 6:20:30 AM     (No. 9023135)

Sadly, my brother, who used to live in the Czech Republic and loves its people, is one of the idiots who voted for Obama with great enthusiasm. The Czechs know what it is like to live under totalitarian rule. It´s a sin that so many Americans are willfully going down that road and dragging the rest of us along behind.


Reply 4 - Posted by: miceal, 11/19/2012 6:25:17 AM     (No. 9023141)

Trust me, if this was posted on face book, it was taken down by one of the Obama trolls who do the censorship there.....


Reply 5 - Posted by: GringoinQuito, 11/19/2012 7:01:10 AM     (No. 9023176)

Every time I think of the typical Obama voter I see the Obamaphone lady.


Reply 6 - Posted by: vwlarry, 11/19/2012 7:08:16 AM     (No. 9023184)

That was a lady???


Reply 7 - Posted by: Bulldog65, 11/19/2012 7:13:05 AM     (No. 9023192)

This has been around for a long time. I received it from friends who had multiforwarded it over and over. It was attributed to someone else when I saw it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: jinx, 11/19/2012 7:19:48 AM     (No. 9023200)

ROmney was right but the MSM allowed the Obama regime to use his words over and over again to trash him. I doubt if any one on the public dole voted against Obama. Not only does that segment of America scare me, but the MSM who also supports him no matter what he does. Four Americans were murdered in our name and it was not considered news by the MSM until after the election. That too is a danger to America.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Rinktum, 11/19/2012 7:21:02 AM     (No. 9023203)

Seems to me that a vast number of Obama devotees are unwilling to accept responsibility or recognize an authority figure. They have been coddled and pampered by their parents and easily brainwashed by the educational system. The concept of hard work is also beneath them. Our prosperity has created the climate wherein these types of individuals can flourish and they have. We are about to see just what the United States is made of when the economy collapses. We will see who fairs better. I am sure some in the world look at us and wonder what in the heck happened! Unfortunately, those who have lived under the yolk of tyranny recognize it all too easily and realize that we are headed to a very dark place.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Psalm91:11, 11/19/2012 7:22:40 AM     (No. 9023204)

The first time I read this, I read it directly on the Pravda English version website. I think it must have been about a year ago, and it was written by an American living in Russia.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Topic Thunder, 11/19/2012 7:36:26 AM     (No. 9023225)

I would like to nominate Mark Twain.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Judith, 11/19/2012 7:37:00 AM     (No. 9023227)

ALL of the people I have talked to who supported obama had extremely small intellects, no historical knowledge and just about no financial knowledge. But ALL of them had college degrees.
One of them, a cpa in her fifties, was unaware of anyone having cut taxes in this country and the consequences of such an action. All of them were for making drugs legal, suicide, abortion WHENEVER, even after live birth. Depraved is a mild word for this bunch of voters.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: disasterman, 11/19/2012 7:49:14 AM     (No. 9023239)

This has been out for over a year. There is a copy on my bulletin board and I posted it on FB on 11/7. It´s still there and more meaningful than ever.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Maybeth, 11/19/2012 7:49:15 AM     (No. 9023240)

Obama need not worry about his voters seeing this article. So many of them just aren´t ´into reading.´ Reading would be such a waste of time, when they have Obama´s Marxists to tell them what they think.


Reply 15 - Posted by: lizzee1, 11/19/2012 7:53:45 AM     (No. 9023249)

#7 last time I saw it on fb, it was attributed to Vaclav Havel, late president of Czechoslovakia.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Freeloader, 11/19/2012 8:00:59 AM     (No. 9023261)

Let´s see an in-depth poll of many voters in 2012, who had previously lived in a communist country, voted to reelect the Marxist disaster on November 6th!


Reply 17 - Posted by: mrduc, 11/19/2012 8:02:51 AM     (No. 9023266)

Nov. 6th was our Kristallnacht. It marks the day we left behind any doubt that the America we knew and in which we believed had become a memory.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: BirdsNest, 11/19/2012 8:03:38 AM     (No. 9023269)

I sure would like to know what was promised to the Zippy voters, not the long term stuff, the immediate payoff. We saw so many voters out that NEVER come to vote and certainly not at 9am. Just what was payoff that day?? There had to be something. These folks are so clueless they have a tattoo on their hand reading "Inhale,Exhale".


Reply 19 - Posted by: planetgeo, 11/19/2012 8:05:46 AM     (No. 9023272)

Regardless of the source or the timing of its origin, this is a stunningly accurate observation. We are living under an occupation of our country by a rogue regime put in place by a confederacy of fools.


Reply 20 - Posted by: LZK, 11/19/2012 8:09:46 AM     (No. 9023278)

Bingo!!

LZK


Reply 21 - Posted by: 4freedom, 11/19/2012 8:11:06 AM     (No. 9023282)

Part of the write up states the Republic can survive Obama, I disagree, once he gets the guns, and I assure you he will either by backdoor deals with the UN or dissolving the second amendment with a stacked commie Supreme Court, it´s all over but the crying.


Reply 22 - Posted by: so_free_me, 11/19/2012 8:14:20 AM     (No. 9023294)

The sad thing is I know many of these "fools" and they are really deceived people more than foolish. They have been fed lie upon lie for a long time and it didn´t start in politics, but rather in the "Christian" churches who have been propagating a phony god for generations. Their god cares not a whit about sins like sexual immorality or lying or cheating or stealing or murder. Their god only cares about "helping" the poor and the proof you are worshiping their god is if you vote for the democrats.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Joycie, 11/19/2012 8:36:54 AM     (No. 9023326)

Go to www.Snopes.com. They say that this is "undeterminded." They are not sure that it is true.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Gallo3, 11/19/2012 8:42:08 AM     (No. 9023332)

...remembering of course that Snopes is a marxist site.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Muncsdad, 11/19/2012 8:43:02 AM     (No. 9023335)

Snopes is run by liberals.

MM


Reply 26 - Posted by: earlybird, 11/19/2012 8:45:09 AM     (No. 9023341)

According to this, this quotation originated on an American blog in 2009.

http://flattopshistorywarpolitics.yuku.com/topic/1315#.UKo2KIVLcbU

In April 2011, an American Thinker writer cited it and said this:

There is a wonderful quote that has been making its way around the internet over the past year. It apparently was translated from an article published in the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung last April and reads as follows:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/will_ignorance_lead_to_a_secon.html

Prager Zeitung, by the way, is a German language newspaper that publishes in Czechoslovakia.

No matter. It´s as true now as it was then. More so because the same stupid, reckless people voted for him again this month.


Reply 27 - Posted by: thelmalou, 11/19/2012 8:48:25 AM     (No. 9023343)

Whoever wrote it, and when, is beside the point. The real point is that it is absolute TRUTH, and that is one of the two things that make me so pessimistic/doubtful about the future of this country. (The other is our refusal to stand behind Israel.) 11/6 wasn´t our Kristallnacht, but it surely helped pave the way for it. :sigh:


Reply 28 - Posted by: el lobo, 11/19/2012 8:52:11 AM     (No. 9023356)

The country has morphed into one of willful dependency and corruption. Elections come and go. The current course of the US population will most likely last until it’s demise. Check out Two Wolves on Amazon.com.


Reply 29 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/19/2012 9:12:29 AM     (No. 9023387)

If you want a reality check on what´s going on with Obama, ask people in the countries that were behind the Iron Curtain.

We heard the same attitude as in this article from the Poles we met there, including government officials.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 11/19/2012 9:21:57 AM     (No. 9023404)

I tend to believe in the article´s authenticity. Hell, it only mirrors what Pravda and Izvestia -- no less -- have been saying about Obama every other week.


Reply 31 - Posted by: udanja99, 11/19/2012 9:27:20 AM     (No. 9023413)

I´ve been worried sick for the last four years because I DID live behind the Iron Curtain. Granted, I was there as an American diplomat, but I saw firsthand the horrors of Marxism. It was like being in a shark cage - I was insulated from the damage but I could see it clearly. It is beyond hideous and worse than anything most Americans have ever heard about it.

I grieve for my country and for my daughter´s future.


Reply 32 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/19/2012 9:35:20 AM     (No. 9023427)

As others have said this was true 4 years ago and more true today. The decadent population is the problem. A free country cannot survive a decadent immoral population. I compare it to a parasite that kills it´s host and thus itself by never knowing when to stop sucking the life from it´s host. The parasites believe Obama saying that nothing needs to change if only the rich pay a little more. The GOP would have done well to feature the ad of Thomas Peterffy during the election and hammer it home. The rich will be poorer but the poor will be much poorer.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 11/19/2012 9:41:59 AM     (No. 9023438)

Like #7...this or a version of it has been showing up on occasion in the Inbox for a long time. ...doubt if it originated from a Czech paper.


Reply 34 - Posted by: thegare, 11/19/2012 10:08:07 AM     (No. 9023486)

The Czech´s not only have the world´s most beautiful women, they have the most pragmatic common sense too!


Reply 35 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 11/19/2012 10:15:10 AM     (No. 9023499)

I´ve been to Praque, and highly recommend it to anyone going to Europe. It´s a beautiful city and the home of John Hus, the singing martyr, one of the early church reformers.

The Czech people are more in tune with American ideals than their European neighbors.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Andromeda, 11/19/2012 10:18:57 AM     (No. 9023505)

I just got back from a couple of weeks in Prague, where my daughter is studying for semester.

Sad thing is, in their most recent elections they voted in a bunch of Communists. No limit to what people will do for the promise of free stuff.

Even sadder, I felt so much freer there. Nobody asked me for an ID of any kind other than the hotel when I registered. Only place I had to submit to search and give up my electronics was the American Embassy. People eat and drink wherever they want, nobody worries about lawsuits, and even the dogs go everywhere without leashes. Wonder how long that will all last.


Reply 37 - Posted by: RancherJack, 11/19/2012 10:32:37 AM     (No. 9023523)

Yes. And yes.

That said, didn´t I read this after the first election, from sources other than Prague?


Reply 38 - Posted by: MOSwas71331, 11/19/2012 11:00:32 AM     (No. 9023560)

I still doubt the voting in last Tuesday´s election was proper. 0bama certainly got the lion´s share of votes cast by illegal aliens, felons legally disenfranchised, and the falsely registered deceased -- to say nothing of the machines rigged to count votes for Romney as votes for 0bama. (Touch screens in Colorado were programmed that way. Some voters caught the error, but many certainly didn´t.)


Reply 39 - Posted by: Alibi Inn, 11/19/2012 12:38:30 PM     (No. 9023756)

Its a tribal things folks.


Reply 40 - Posted by: Butch59, 11/19/2012 12:43:45 PM     (No. 9023765)

Sadly, the words in this article (if it really is one) only shows what America has become during the past several decades. But, it´s really no wonder. It seems that the vast number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, have come here from countries that were socialist, communist, or outright corrupt. As such, it´s the type of government they are used to and don´t any other. They have no background of freedom and self reward. So, they just vote for the person that will give them the most freebies.


Reply 41 - Posted by: larryp, 11/19/2012 1:13:44 PM     (No. 9023842)

the problem of extracting ourselves from the"yolk" of tyranny is that we will have to crack more than a few eggs.


Reply 42 - Posted by: weirdone, 11/19/2012 2:00:29 PM     (No. 9023928)

Not only have I seen this piece I have saved it and I sent it to everyone on my e-mail list over a years or two ago.


Reply 43 - Posted by: lana720, 11/19/2012 2:45:15 PM     (No. 9024009)

Although this has been around for four years, it is still timely and best re-read from time to time.
We are headed down a black hole of communism.
But,remember the words of Winston Churchill, "Never give up, never give up, never give up!"


Reply 44 - Posted by: Getagrip19, 11/19/2012 3:50:33 PM     (No. 9024114)

Ironic as all get out!


Reply 45 - Posted by: dogbreath, 11/19/2012 6:37:35 PM     (No. 9024344)

lie down and take the bullets, America. isn´t it what we always wanted?


Reply 46 - Posted by: david kahane, 11/19/2012 7:00:58 PM     (No. 9024378)

Not even an article, but an alleged comment on a German-language website ("Prager Zeitung" simply means "Prague Newspaper" in German -- there is no "Prager Zeitungon"), first posted on Freep more than two years ago. Why is it a Must Read?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559666/posts


Reply 47 - Posted by: hamrman, 11/19/2012 8:00:20 PM     (No. 9024463)

Those stupid enough to forget history will certainly repeat it...like those Sheeple that voted for O!


Reply 48 - Posted by: Pansophic, 11/19/2012 8:09:52 PM     (No. 9024472)

Jesus said"whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." Lest I go to hell, how does "useful idiot" do?


Reply 49 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 11/19/2012 8:24:39 PM     (No. 9024491)

In re #20, the confederacy of fools includes inner city blacks and hispanics, single mothers of all races, the young and dumb (university campuses stocked full of impressionable young people), young urban professionals who want everything now, yes, the msm, and the anti-Romney-ites who wanted to make their statement by not voting. Regardless of the source of the information, the message hold much merit and hits home on who is changing the face of America.


Reply 50 - Posted by: Safari Man, 11/19/2012 9:13:09 PM     (No. 9024537)

Do I care if 50% of the country are fools who want to live in socialism? Not really as long as they confine it to states like Mass and CA and all the other deep blue states. What I object to is the nationalization of these practices so that we ALL must suffer as one, when we´re not one.

This is why I want to divvy up the country so that the libs can have their socialism and the rest of us can have what America was intended to be. Shouldn´t that be agreeable to everyone? Sure seems like an amicable situation to me.


Reply 51 - Posted by: lencu255, 11/19/2012 9:19:10 PM     (No. 9024542)

I have a thought, was talking about it for years.
The conservatives for many reasons don´t believe in the power of propaganda. How do you think the morons/drones/jerks/leeches will react to the promises of commies to get everything with no efforts? Of course they love it! On top of that the feelings of greed, jealousy, and inadequacy help.
We, on the other hand didn´t even try to organize mainstream media to explain to the above mentioned idiots what will happen later if we continue along this path.
And mind you, we have history of fascism and communism to prove it!
But no, every theoretician blabbers about wider tent! Morons and drones don´t care about tent - they already have the leaders - commies, who fulfill the promise. They don´t need repibics to repeat the promises made by dems!
But when the dust settles things will be different from the promised fascist/commie paradise. And this is what conservative mainstream media HAS to explain!


Reply 52 - Posted by: get er done, 11/19/2012 9:37:24 PM     (No. 9024554)

... And then there is that nasty situation of widespread voter fraud in swing states, with larger percentages of people turning out to vote in swing state precincts than there were registered voters.

Stop this travesty at the Electoral College or in the Congress, or with secession. The red states and any who want to join them can form one country and the blue states can wallow in socialism, at their own expense.



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