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Which Roman emperor does Obama most resemble, with respect to conduct and actions?
Top 10 worst Roman Emperors. List verse.com ^ | 05/09/10

Posted on 08/31/2014 7:05:07 AM PDT by grumpygresh

In the West, Imperial Rome begins in 27BC with the reign of Augustus and ends in 476 with Romulus Augustulus. Throughout this period, we can find good, mediocre and horrible rulers. America has often been compared to Rome, and today, like Rome, we see the transformation of our country from a republic to something closer to a dictatorship or autocracy. I know that many Freepers are Roman history bufffs, so we should come up with a pretty convincing consensus view.


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KEYWORDS: obamaromanemperor; romanempire
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To: grumpygresh
Sid Caesar?

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21 posted on 08/31/2014 7:33:52 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: grumpygresh

Most movies and TV programs portray the Senate and Senators as a bunch of bumbling, incompetent, self-serving old fools.

We have a Senate, too.


22 posted on 08/31/2014 7:34:06 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: grumpygresh

23 posted on 08/31/2014 7:36:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: grumpygresh

Don’t know anything about Commodus but the name alone rings true.


24 posted on 08/31/2014 7:38:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: GeronL

25 posted on 08/31/2014 7:39:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: BenLurkin
Ne(g)ro, the Caesar Salad.
26 posted on 08/31/2014 7:39:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: grumpygresh

Tiberias. He’s gonna retire to an island where he’s building a huge villa and finally come out of the closet.


27 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:17 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: grumpygresh

As far as my studies take me I know of no member of the black race that was ever the leader of an empire or super power. That is, other than Obama. Most African nations have average IQ’s in the 70’s or 80’s. All nations that are/were super powers have/had average IQ’s in the upper 90’s or 100’s. Take a look at those numbers available on line. You will find that Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Germany, etc. all with average IQ’s around 100. Because of intermarrying with low IQ ethnic groups and mass immigration of low IQ ethnic groups, the average IQ of Americans is falling so we cannot survive and remain a super power. Darwin was right.


28 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:36 AM PDT by barnrat
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To: grumpygresh
For everyone's reference, Suetonius' wildly entertaining The Lives of the Twelve Caesars can be read (free) or downloaded courtesy of the wonderful folks at Gutenberg.org.
29 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:42 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Crazieman
I always thought Clinton was more Tiberius than Caligula. He's got all those horrible sores on his face like that particular emperor.
30 posted on 08/31/2014 7:44:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: bakeneko
Elagabalus! You know history well, and nailed it!
31 posted on 08/31/2014 7:45:02 AM PDT by PieroC (pieroc)
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To: barnrat

***I know of no member of the black race that was ever the leader of an empire or super power. ***

At the tribal level there was SHAKA.


32 posted on 08/31/2014 7:45:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: Prospero

What a great read! It forms the basis of the book I, Claudius which became the great tv series. Sort of an early National Enquirer.


33 posted on 08/31/2014 7:45:54 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: a fool in paradise

Michael Palin: just looking at a photo reduces me to hysterics.


34 posted on 08/31/2014 7:47:25 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Prospero

It is interesting that we know more about the Caesars than we do about King Harold and the kings who lived 1000 years later.


35 posted on 08/31/2014 7:47:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: a fool in paradise

Obama has a gweat fwiend in Wome too. His name is Rejus - Rejus Luvus.


36 posted on 08/31/2014 7:48:42 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: grumpygresh

My choice is Alexios IV Angelos, who imposed heavy taxes yet squandered the imperial treasury on palaces, gardens and bribes as enemies overran the empire, culminating in the sack of Constantinople by the Venetians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204.


37 posted on 08/31/2014 7:49:27 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: a fool in paradise

I believe that’s Biggus. Obama is more like his half brother, Littlus.


38 posted on 08/31/2014 7:50:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: grumpygresh

Definitely Elagabalus- the Syrian god he’s named for even has something in common with Islam:

“The cult statue was brought to Rome by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who before his accession was the hereditary high priest at Emesa and is commonly called Elagabalus after the deity. The Syrian deity was assimilated with the Roman sun god known as Sol Invictus (”the Undefeated Sun”).

“A temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill, to house the holy stone of the Emesa temple, a black conical meteorite. Herodian writes of that stone:

“This stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them.


39 posted on 08/31/2014 7:50:23 AM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Perdogg

Elegabulus works for me. Did anyone mention Domitian?


40 posted on 08/31/2014 7:56:23 AM PDT by Gefn (With the latest world events, I'm too sad to have a tag line.)
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