Posted on 8/9/2011, 3:01:46 PM by Bed_Zeppelin
Three significant historical events have been eclipsed by Obama: 1) Jimmy Carter will no longer be looked upon as the worst president in American history; 2) Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton will no longer be recognized as the greatest liars in presidential history; 3) Clinton's stain on Monica's dress, and what that did to the White House in general and the office of the president specifically, will forever pale in comparison to the stain and stench of Obama.
I need not spend much time on the failure of Obama as president. His tenure has been a failure on every measurable level. So much so, in fact, that some of the staunchest, most respected liberal Democrats and Democratic supporters have not only openly criticized him – some even more harshly than this essayist – but they have called for him to step down.
Richard Nixon's words "I am not a crook," punctuated with his involvement in Watergate, and Bill Clinton's finger-wagging as he told one of the most pathetic lies in presidential history, in the aftermath of Obama, will be viewed as mere prevarications.
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He is NOT “Nero”, he is “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus";.
Geez, when I first read the title, I thought it said,
Negro in the White House.
I must've been out of the room when this happened.
Hey, I have been calling Obama Gaius Germanicus for at least a week! Great minds think alike?
Nero was my 63rd Great Grandfather, so I agree with you that this guy, Commodus, is a much better fit.
Upon his accession Commodus devalued the Roman currency. He reduced the weight of the denarius from 96 per Roman pound to 105 (3.85 grams to 3.35 grams). He also reduced the silver purity from 79% to 76% — the silver weight dropping from 2.57 grams to 2.34 grams. In 186 he further reduced the purity and silver weight to 74% and 2.22 grams respectively, being 108 to the Roman pound.[2] His reduction of the denarius during his rule was the largest since the empire’s first devaluation during Nero’s reign.
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”[3]—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.
Is he not merciful?
You do injustice to Nero. At least he had some talent to play a fiddle and did not need a teleprompter to augment his mediocre acting.
“Nero was my 63rd Great Grandfather” you ADMIT to THAT?!
Yes! When it is a consequence of having Charles “The Hammer” Martel (676 - 741) as my 36th great grandfather!
The real question to ask is...generations from now will anyone admit they were descended from Obama?
Moot point ... gays don’t naturally reproduce.
It is historically incorect to say that Nero “fiddled” while Rome burned (he actually playerd a lyre). But if it is symbolic to say Nero fiddled while Rome burned would it not be symbolic to say Obam played the “lyre” (pun intended) while we crashed and burned?
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Zero golfs while the USA burns.
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