Schwarzenberg as Czech Obama

Former Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg was elected chairman of the new conservative party TOP 09 in Prague on the weekend. The party has attained 15 to 20 percent of voter support in current opinion polls. For the liberal daily Sme Schwarzenberg is a sort of "Czech Obama": "The situation leaves much to be desired, the people are dissatisfied and frustrated. They are hoping for a miracle, the arrival of a new Messiah who will solve their problems in the twinkling of an eye. ... Schwarzenberg has been right in just about everything he's said to politicians - and not only Czech ones - recently: they are cowardly and shirk their responsibilities, they see politics merely as a means of gaining power. ... Certainly, Schwarzenberg doesn't talk that way about people he himself worked under. But he belongs to the small group of respectable politicians who has never sullied his own hands."

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