I, Obama

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 12 Sept 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[buck61]

Is there anyone here who has not slept with my daughter???”

In I Claudius, if I remember correctly?/ Claduis’s wife challenged the biggest whore in Rome as to how many men she could treat. The wife of Claudius won, and when Claudius returned he had her killed.

This was a very interesting series for PBS at the time.

[STE=Q]

"The point of all those portrayals are that the subject, the person shown, is greater than your average man. He (it’s usually a man) also has a greater vision than your average man. And always, always, the viewer is expected to look up to, respect, or even revere the person in the portrait."

Very astute!

Obama is a 'poser' in more ways than one.

STE=Q

[Cheburashka]

http://www.amazon.com/I-Claudius-Derek-Jacobi/dp/B00004U12X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221314635&sr=8-1

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dude.

Cheers!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Subtle.

But do today's socialists (intetrnational socialists really, though their previous international communist label is only barely no longer applicable) relate to the Roman Emperors?

The icon graphic is the same. But is that because of their same root in the “glory of the ruler” that Stalin, Lenin, and Mao held sway?

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks for your comment.

I'm not saying the politics or economics are the same. But “the glory of the ruler” is exactly the same.

John / Billybob

[Billthedrill]

Oh, no, the situations were nothing at all alike! Claudius, after all, had to follow a glad-handing con man who methodically eliminated his enemies and his wife, who was a mean, manipulative, murderous, vindictive woman who wanted to be Emperor herself, and...

Oh.

Never mind.

[fanfan]

With each of his ringing phrases, he looks first to the left, later to the right, showing just his profile to the audience.

That is where the teleprompters are.

[Congressman Billybob]

I know that's where the teleprompters are. However, most speakers try to hide the fact that they are using the teleprompters. A glance when necessary.

No, Obama is posing on purpose. Note that he is not looking at the teleprompters. He's looking above them and into the middle distance. That's the heroic pose.

John / Billybob

[Robert A Cook PE]

Certainly, the “bread and circuses” is exactly the same: Even to the point of today’s ever-more-salicious “American Gladiator” (instead of pro sports) “caged death matches” (instead of wrestling or boxing), the video games that DO kill and main and rob and assault, the reality (instant gratification) shows and the professional welfare class.

[garjog]

Captain Kirk meet Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXkHYw1cyI

[SunkenCiv]

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[Interesting Times]

Then again, perhaps Obama's model is a bit more recent...

[SatinDoll]

Love the arugala! Nice touch, that.

[PGalt]

Good post/thread. How ‘bout a steel cage death match between myself and Bill Ayers to satisfy the masses?

[dighton]

One day [Caligula] was on the Oration Platform in the Market Place dressed as Jove and making a speech. “I intend shortly,” he said, “to build a city for my occupation on top of the Alps. We Gods prefer mountain-tops to unhealthy river-valleys. From the Alps I shall have a wider view of my Empire—France, Italy, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Germany. If I see any treason hatching anywhere below me, I shall give a warning growl of thunder so! (He growled in his throat.) If the warning is disregarded I shall blast the traitor with this lightning of mine, so! (He hurled his piece of lightning at the crowd. It hit a statue and bounced off harmlessly.) A stranger in the crowd, a shoemaker from Marseilles on a sight-seeing visit to Rome, burst out laughing. Caligula had the fellow arrested and brought nearer the platform, then bending down he asked frowning: “Who do I seem to you to be?” “A big humbug,” said the shoemaker. Caligula was puzzled. “Humbug?” he repeated. “I, a humbug!” “Yes,” said the Frenchman, “I’m only a poor French shoemaker and this is my first visit to Rome. And I don’t know any better. If anyone at home did what you’re doing he’d be a big humbug.”

Caligula began to laugh too. “You poor half-wit,” he said. “Of course he would be. That’s just the difference.”

— Robert Graves, I, Claudius.

[PhilDragoo]

CAESAR TELEPROMPTUS

[potlatch]

 

[devolve]

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LOL!

A classic potlatch

I wonder if I can.....

[potlatch]

Remember, I used that dog with the shrinking Hillary? But I composited that one.

Hope this doesn’t post twice!!