by Pops » Sat 14 Jul 2007, 12:33:08
What’s worse than a really, really stupid President…
An electorate who doesn’t care?
No, on second though, it is a country without an electorate.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)