“...the lust for power is a common human failure. Obama is not the first. He is the average power-hungry pol as demonstrated by the last six thousand years of history. Political parasites have been the bane of human existence since Egypt and Sumer...”
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Our Constitution was “supposed” to protect us from that;
and if properly applied, it would;
but only if we have a moral and educated populace.
There's our problem.
I heard on the radio the other day (there was no attribution) that some 23 percent of Americans could not identify what country the USA attained its independence from. That is just downright disturbing.