NEA Chair Says Obama Most Powerful Writer Since Caesar

10/28/2009 | me

[ignorancerunsrampant]

Did I miss something? What did Obama write?

[dangus]

He’s overtaken, “Mein Kampf” I see. Hmmm...

[Paladin2]

So give him the Literature Nobel already.

[sistabrista]

Since when has Obama been a writer? Man, this never stops-first the Nobel Peace Price, now he’s the greatest writer since Cesar?

[Eleutheria5]

Who says Caesar wrote anything? He had a former Briton rebel do his ghostwriting.

[ElayneJ]

Are they trying to sound ridiculous, or can they just not help themselves?

[Trueblackman]

Wait a minute, “How does he write anything,”when he reads it all off of teleprompter.

[the_Watchman]

Do you have a source for this news?

[my small voice]

We are a laughing stock nation now! How embarasassing!

Can’t the idiot just say “He’s an excellent writer??!”

Since Caesar?? By the way, I don’t recall EVER seeing Caesar being singled out as a great writer. Soldier, yes. Statesman, yes. Leader, yep. Writer???...uh, no.

[Michael.SF.]

What did Obama write?

If it is a resignation letter, I will agree.

[a fool in paradise]

Give his Pulitzer to Bill Ayers. JFK didn’t earn his award for Profiles In Courage either.

[fullchroma]

Here’s an example of Obama’s scintillating writing: http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/09/whyorg.html

[ignorancerunsrampant]

Come on, Al Gore invents the internet, and the best this guy can do is “not write a book”

[Lady Jag]

What do you mean he hasn't written anything?

[a fool in paradise]

What we think of as the work of Willie The Shake was really the unattributed writings of Julius Caesar.

[my small voice]

He’s as good a writer as Rainman was a driver.

“Uh, I’m an excellent President. Drive slow on the driveway....”

[Eleutheria5]

He wrote a mean middle-English, then.

[B-Cause]

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[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[a fool in paradise]

I’m waiting for the NEA to sponsor some artist to put a portrait of Obama in a jar of urine. After all, the NEA insists that it was not an insult or slur.

[ignorancerunsrampant]

Top story, left side of Drudge

[my small voice]

That would be awesome!!!!!!!

[TomasUSMC]

Well he IS featured in Larry Sinclair’s book.

[Reo]

"He had a former Briton rebel do his ghostwriting."

And Obie had a former Weatherman do his.

[DannyTN]

He wrote about all that Peace he helped bring about. /s

[angryoldfatman]

Julius Caesar was killed by his fellow statesmen for signs of getting too big for his britches.

Hmmm.....

If Hillary is Cassius, who’s Brutus?

[a fool in paradise]

It’s not worth doing if you can’t get a $40,000 grant from the government to do it. The NEA taught me this.

[Lucky9teen]

[IndyPatriot]

Caesar was actually quite renowned as a writer. His Gallic Commentaries were praised by both his contemporaries as well as modern literary critics. He was also well regarded as a speechmaker and advocate, being considered in his time second only to Cicero.

[GOP Poet]

Oh my. These people are truly, truly WHACKED!

[aruanan]

NEA Chair Says Obama Most Powerful Writer Since Caesar

The NEA is always coming up with new ways of saying things. In this case "powerful" means "grandiloquent" and "writer" means "vain racist putz."

[libstripper]

Here’s a link to the NEa website where he says it:

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=13

This is the money paragraph:

“My answer is pretty simple. There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.”

[libstripper]

Once again:

Here’s a link to the NEA website where he says it:

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=13

This is the money paragraph:

“My answer is pretty simple. There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.”

[stephenjohnbanker]

Great Post!!

B U M P

[GOP Poet]

Exactly. I noticed the link on Drudge dealing with this content linked to two critical articles on N(ational) R(eview) O(nline). One took the perspective of assessing this comment as one of political power and the other literary power. I found both brief articles interesting in their analysis if for no other reason than they interpreted this power in two very different ways.

The first article critical of this silly comment by the NEA chairman looked the political power assessment. While well argued and forthright in disproving this inane comment regarding Barack Obama did not mention Hitler's "Mein Kampf" which as you mentioned is one of the biggest in contemporary society. I am very happy you brought this up. And look at how positive "Mein Kampf" political power yield was. I say that with incredible sarcasm. Meaning even if Barack Obama's writing of "Dreams of My Father" were powerful in what its political power yield was and is (which I believe it was only powerful during the campaign). This is not neccessarily a positive or a positive influence.

Artistically? Its literary value? Hey lots of memoirs are written. Lots have artist advantages and disadvantages, but Barack Obama doesn't even make the long list of great or artistically grand memoirs in my book. We did it and that is of value and sometimes outside of what the artist reaped this is the only value it holds for others. This is also true of Barack Obama. Did he right it all on his own. Then he joins the millions in those grandstands that have. If he did write his books on his own, he does not even get to sit in the seat with the others. He is relegated to the parking lot, maybe to having his own private tail gate party. LOL.

His literary influence at best is limited to the grandstands of those of us that write our books. I see him completely as a narcissistic charlatan. His book(s) are all part of this ruse and ego feeding. He is a politician. Nothing more. Nothing less.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“NEA Chair Says Bill Ayers Most Powerful Writer Since Caesar”

There, fixed it ;-)

[sima_yi]

If you accept the premise that he is a writer (because he must have written something, sometime, although there is no direct evidence) and he is the president of the United States (therefore the most powerful person on earth), it follows that he is also the most powerful writer on earth.

(/s)

[GOP Poet]

right = write

If he did not write his books on his own, he does not even get to sit . . ..

[shibumi]

And Caesar was the best in his time, even eclipsing Phil Silvers.

[shibumi]

In an unexpected collaboration, Cesar is currently helping The Usurper write a new book from his ongoing daily TV series "The Rat Whisperer."

[my small voice]

very good. There you have it. Caesar and Buttcrack....literary Twins!

[A.A. Cunningham]

Did I miss something?

Obviously

[Lakeshark]

Well, he did write a campaign slogan that is about to go down as the most laughable in history.........

[Noumenon]

Here's some Caesar, for you:

Upon what meat
has this our Caesar fed
that he has grown so great?
Julius Caesar -- Shakespeare.

We all know how it turned out for Caesar.

[Salamander]

A rat’s hearing is so acute you need not whisper....just *think* really loud.

[Jenny217]

Exactly what is this guy smoking????

[infowarrior]

Did I miss something? What did Obama write?

Something along the lines of "Veni, Vidi, Veve..." Or so I'm told...

the infowarrior