You know I had read that before and remembered the sentiment, but couldn't remember if it was in the Bible or something that someone else had said. It is true that the basest of men are often given to us by God to be our "leaders" in the kingdom of men. I think that verse certainly expresses the FACT that it is God who chooses our rulers, even in a democracy. We have clearly been blessed as a nation to have the likes of George Washington (who clearly had some personal faults) and Ronald Wilson Reagan, but by and large we have survived as a nation with some pretty base men at the top of the political food chain. It is a miracle that we are still a relatively free nation, but it is only by the grace of God and not by the choice of our electorate that God has spared this nation much of the turmoil that is visited upon the rest of the planet.
When blessed, we are given statesmen. At other times, we get mere politicians.
In setting up Obama, God has definitely given us one of the basest of men.
Obama would've beaten some of the Roman emperors to the filth.