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Posted on 11/25/2014 5:11:47 AM PST by luke1825
It would be unfair to compare Emperor Barack to the Roman Emperor Nero, who famously was supposed to have fiddled while Rome burned.
Our emperor only plays golf.
While there was a great fire that did destroy most of Rome back in 64 (not 1964, but A.D. 64, or as in Anno Domini, as we used to say), Nero would not have been fiddling around.
The fiddle, or violin, you see, did not exist back in the day of the Romans. It was not invented until about 1,500 years later. So Nero got a bad rap on that score.
But Nero, who was suspected of starting the fire in the first place as an early form of urban renewal -- using Christians as torches -- could have been playing the flute. Or he could have been strumming on a harp, known back then as a cithara
In some ways Obama is more like Caligula.
Caligula appointed a horse to the senate.
Obama married a horse and has a senate stuffed with horses arses.
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According to Tacitus, Nero wasn’t even in Rome when the fire broke out, and he immediately returned from Actium to oversee relief efforts and containment of several fires, one of which damaged his own palace.
Nero was an unsavory character, but he was no Obama.
ROTFLMAO!!
That is DEFINITELY a keeper.
Nero was an unsavory character, but he was no Obama.
Heck, at least Nero could sing....
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