Posted on 10/29/2009 5:11:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama 'Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar,' Says NEA Chief Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, declared in a speech to art philanthropists in Brooklyn last week that President Obama is the world's most powerful writer since the days of Caesar.
By Joseph Abrams
FOXNews.com
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Et tu, Rocco?
Maybe President Obama will win the Nobel Prize for Literature, too, now that the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts has declared that "Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar."
Rocco Landesman rendered unto Obama that considerable compliment in a little-noticed speech to a group of art philanthropists in Brooklyn, N.Y., last week, praising the president as an "Optimist in Chief" who is developing "the most arts-supportive administration since Roosevelt."
Putting the president in the pantheon with such pencil-pushing powerhouses as the man who was, literally, the Czar of all Czars, Landesman said that since Obama "actually writes his own books," he's the most powerful man to be a true writer in the 2,000 years since Caesar strode the narrow earth.
"That has to be good for American artists," he said.
But one man's praise is another's dagger, say presidential historians, who called the speech a "bizarre" and illiterate attempt to praise a political patron -- and a big misfire for the NEA chief.
"Julius Caesar is historically the last person in the world that American presidents would want to be compared to," said historian Richard Brookhiser, who has written widely on the Founding Fathers. "He tried to subvert the republic -- that's why he was killed."
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Abolish the NEA.
WHERE IS THE IDIOT ALERT?!
Good grief!
“Abolish the NEA.”
No kidding.
At least, whoever wrote Obama’s stuff is a good writer. I hear Bill Ayers is a good writer.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:
Dean Koontz has them both beat!
That’s strange because Obama hasn’t written anything since college!
More accurately, his ghostwriter. At least give the real guy who writes his books credit.
Mr. niteowl77
NEA Chief Rocco Landesman, apparently has all the literary depth and appreciation, of a Hun.
Didn’t Ayers write his stuff???? and I read where his (Obama) mom was single when he was born (WND)....
These guys are utterly and completely insane.
Trouble is, what does that make us?
Don’t misunderestimate these guys. I’ve said before that when they decide that Zero is an albatross around their neck, they will eliminate him, blame it on the right-wing haters, create an instant martyr, pull their chestnuts out of the 2010 election fire.
The NEA chump is just greasing the skids.
Can you say Reichstag?
Obama’s books were written by someone else, his speeches are written by others … just what has Obama written that even comes close to matching anything written by Julius Caesar?
Blame it on Fox News’ violence machine and use it as an excuse to introduce nation-wide censorship of “hate” media.
They could kill a dozen birds with one stone.
Don’t think they won’t do it if they think they can get away with it. And with sycophant uncurious MSM carrying their water, they might get away with it.
Pray for the Secret Service.
Et tu, TOTUS?
I don’t think Zero has penned the first word.
And of course they will be smart enough to manipulate some goof-ball white supremacist outfit to actually carry out the hit. Pray for the Secret Service and beg God to give the crazies on the right brains enough to see how counterproductive it would be.
But then there are the crazies on the Left to worry about.
Can you say Reichstag?
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