Obama Believed He’d Reign Like Julius Caesar, But Will He End as Nero?

CFP ^ | February 28, 2010 | Kelly O'Connell

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Like a troop of soap opera actors convinced they are perennially on the verge of real stardom, modern leftists seem persuaded liberalism lacks only an unblocked opportunity to show the world it is an unrivaled theory of sheer genius. Yet conservatives argue it has been the very lack of a chance to fully implement pure liberalism – until now – that gave liberals their cover, helping obscure certain, unmitigated failure behind a vain mirage of gold-foil triumph. Obama’s critics claim no politician has ever summed up better than Barack this gulf between the empty reality of full-blown, late-term liberalism and the promised fool’s-gold socialist mirage. His campaign promises were so large when he ran for office, but his follow through so paltry, that if he’d come from Texas, he’d simply be known as Barack “Big Hat, No Cattle” Obama. Bisecting Roman history as a colossus, Julius Caesar inspired men to achieve great deeds during war and peacetime, during the height of the Republic. Yet, ironically, Julius employed all his leadership genius to actually subvert the government in order to create an empire ideally run by one man – himself. While he died before achieving a kingdom, he left plans behind that laid the foundation to create the Roman Empire, used by his adopted nephew Octavian, aka Augustus. President Obama seems he might have fancied himself a new Julius Caesar when starting his first term, but his current trajectory comports better with the addled Nero, who also began auspiciously. Yet, the latter’s infamous reign was terminated by a perverse comedy of errors befitting a powerfully misguided clown.

[Northern Yankee]

He didn't do anything as a senator from Illinois. Why should there be anything different from this fraudulent creature?

[edpc]

They make it sound like Caesar just “died” when, in fact, he was stabbed to death by the Roman Senate. Somehow, I don’t see that as how any politician envisions their legacy.

[sergeantdave]

Anyone who voted for the Clown Prince obuma based on the vapid and stupid “hope and change” slogan deserves the title “Moron” pinned on his shirt.

As for the propaganda press that shoveled this insipid bucket-carrying con-man onto the American soil, they need to be named subversives and traitors and shipped one-way to North Korea.

[GonzoGOP]

I think he was going for Cesar Augustus. But actually Nero fits the pattern quite nicely.

Augustus = Saves Rome from civil war and chaos. Defeats the foreign enemies.
Vespasian = Inherits from Augustus, barely competent and squanders the legacy.
Caligula = Hedonist, ignores the state for personal pleasure.
Claudius = Gets it because everyone things he's a moron and can be controlled. He actually manages to stabilize the borders and run the country fairly well.
Nero = Idiot. Wants to be an actor rather than a commander. Burns the joint down and plunges the state into years of civil war.


Augustus = Reagen
Vespasian = G H Bush
Caligula = Clinton
Claudius = G W Bush
Nero = Obama

[Jemian]

Caligula.

The first one worshipped his horse. This one married his.

[Vaquero]

Me thinks the senate needs to proclaim me a god!

[edpc]

How about Diocletian = Obama?

The nation is divided.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hows his fiddle playing ???

[COBOL2Java]

[Recon Dad]

A better turn of a phrase than I have seen in some time, thanks!

[greeneyes]

Nero merely fiddled while Rome burned. Obama is throwing gasoline on the fire.

[dennisw]

Send that to Victor Davis Hansen

[Joe Boucher]

Wasn’t Julius killed when his most trusted aid and friend Brutus led the attack by many in the Roman Senate?
Ceasar suffered many stab wounds?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think you’re confusing Vespasian with Tiberius.

[edpc]

So who’s Obama’s Brutus? Axelrod, Plouffe, or Emanuel?

[agere_contra]

Tiberius came after Augustus.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Imma make a Issac Brock vid for you ^__^

[Nahanni]

He is already behaving alot like Caligula.

[GonzoGOP]

I think you’re confusing Vespasian with Tiberius.

Yes I was. I should have goggled Roman history before posting.

I need to print out never post before coffee. and tape it over my monitor.