'Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar' - NEA Chairman (worship alert)

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[thethirddegree]

Yes. He was known as “Great Ceasar’s ghost!”(with apologies to Perry White).

[B-Chan]

Julius Caesar was indeed a great writer. His Commentaries on the Gallic Wars is typically the first Latin text assigned to students of the language.

[saganite]

I guess he missed St Thomas Aquinas. Churchill anyone? Who was that Italian? Oh yeah, Machiavelli.

I’m assuming the NEA sycophant is talking about writers who are also p[oliticians so there’s no need to mention others.

And of course we all know Obama didn’t write Dreams From My Father.

[cripplecreek]

Shortly after the election I decided that Obozo was more like Emperor Commodus.

Whereas the reign of Marcus Aurelius had been marked by almost continuous warfare, even though he preferred books over war, that of Commodus was comparatively peaceful in the military sense but was marked by political strife and the increasingly arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself. In the view of Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, his accession marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron"[1]—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus's reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.

[ThomasThomas]

I found some quotes from Julius Caesar and few stood out.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

[combat_boots]

Well, it’s not just Gaul that’s getting divided...even into three parts.

Furthermore, the NEA guy must be so widely read that he needs Benedictine monks to keep his library.

[freespirited]

I didn’t realize that Ceasar was known for his writing.

Actually he was known for his ability to read off a teleprompter.

[sasquatch]

I forgot the: </sarcasm>
at the end!

[Stand Watch Listen]

I would have guessed, maybe, that the Gospels would have rated a little higher.

Friends....Romans ..let me be clear"...'unexpectedly"...Bush..Bush...Bush!!!

[saganite]

Nah, the empire was still rising when he was around so he missed the whole falling thing. Gibbon is your man.

[omni-scientist]

And, I bet He is also the greatest orator since Cicero.

[Doogle]

...if Landesman inhaled Odumbo’s ears would shrink.

[Dr. Sivana]

I didn’t realize that Ceasar was known for his writing.

Caesar's war commentaries are standard fare in late First and 2nd year Latin. Not known to be more powerful than Shakespeare, St. John of the Cross, French Revolution pamphleteers, St. Paul, Thomas Paine, or Cary Bates and Patrick McGoohan, for that matter.

[KosmicKitty]

Geeze, why doesn’t this writer just throw BO here panties and be done with it!!

[KosmicKitty]

Geeze, why doesn’t this writer just throw BO her panties and be done with it!!

[Perdogg]

more like Elagabalus.

[Dr. Ursus]

Speaking of Brutus,I saw an example of Caesar’s writing
on a wall in the Forum-Brutus is for knife-control!

[Stand Watch Listen]

Hmmmmmm....must be shields against a Brutus

[CheneyChick]

Or the Dog Whisperer.

[CheneyChick]

Or the Dog Whisperer.