Posted on 10/28/2009 6:45:38 AM PDT by Scythian
I'm amazed the NEA Chairman can make such a statement since Obama is hiding everything he published.
Of course he did! Surely you have heard the expression, "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
Rim Shot
A Chairman of the NEA should be well enough educated to realize that Julius Caesar destroyed the Roman Republic, made himself dictator of Rome, and could only be removed from office by murder. I wouldn’t have invited such a comparative.
See Glenn Beck for examples of Obama’s “great writing”, today’s show......
You can listen to him reading his “book” about his Marxist Profs, his structural feminists friends, his performance artist friends, his redistribution of wealth comments (read for a Grammy),,,
these people really, truly, do worship this guy.
Like the murderous followers of Chairman Mao.
Where’s the projectile vomit alert??
Is this a good place for someone to insert the “WTF Kitty?”
Much easier than Josephus. Caesar was the Hemingway of his time as simplicity and clarity of expression goes. Yet I do not rememebr anyone ever considered him a great writer.
And Obama is not a simple speaker — his speeches run on, he uses complexity to obfuscate and create emotional responses. Something completely absent in the works of Caesar I remember from high school.
An English writer named Gibbons wrote “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Actually Caesar wrote a famous book about his campaigns in Gaul battling with Vercingetorix and the Gauls. El Presidente’s ghost written fluff is worthy of being toilet paper when compared to what Caesar did.
- comparative
+ comparison
Also posted on that thread...a description of Julius Caesar from Wikipedia:
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He heavily centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity" (dictator perpetuo). A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC, hoping to restore the normal running of the Republic. However, the result was another Roman civil war, which ultimately led to the establishment of a permanent autocracy by Caesar's adopted heir, Gaius Octavianus. In 42 BC, two years after his assassination, the Senate officially sanctified Caesar as one of the Roman deities.
Sound familiar, anyone?
Fayghela
Also posted on that thread...a description of Julius Caesar from Wikipedia:
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He heavily centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity" (dictator perpetuo). A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC, hoping to restore the normal running of the Republic. However, the result was another Roman civil war, which ultimately led to the establishment of a permanent autocracy by Caesar's adopted heir, Gaius Octavianus. In 42 BC, two years after his assassination, the Senate officially sanctified Caesar as one of the Roman deities.
Sound familiar, anyone?
LOL!
Or Caesar Romero.
Hmmm, if 0bama is Caesar, then who might be Brutus?
I nominate Rahm Emmanuel.
Et tu?
Me either. What did he write besides Commentaries on the Gallic Wars? We read parts of that in 10th grade Latin, and I wasn't really impressed.
Congressman Billybob
Great Caesar’s Ghost Writer!
‘Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar’ - NEA Chairman (worship alert)””
Yo , Bill Ayers, listen up!!!!!!!!!
Mad enough yet?????????
Go out and get those royalties !!!!!!!!!
Tell the world, you short wimpy POS Marxist mad bomber, who killed your own girlfriend by asking her to make your bombs, which you were too cowardly to construct yourself.
Step on an American flag and laugh about it will ya???
Come over to Free Republic and try that.
Or as Serranno said “Bring that sh*t to me, man!”
Marcus Aurelius, anyone?
Nobody had to kill him, except in the movie.
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