I'm amazed the NEA Chairman can make such a statement since Obama is hiding everything he published.
Posted on 10/28/2009 6:45:38 AM PDT by Scythian
I'm amazed the NEA Chairman can make such a statement since Obama is hiding everything he published.
Pretty amazing since other’s write his stuff for him.
I would have guessed, maybe, that the Gospels would have rated a little higher.
Oh I think they believe that he was the one who inspired them.
I didn’t realize that Ceasar was known for his writing.
Worship Alert? Coming from the NEA, I think Gay Man-Crush Alert is more fitting.
I anxiously wait to worship his Columbia thesis
Why does everything about this guy get praised as the mostest, bestest, greatest thing ever in the history of the world? It’s nauseating!
Caesar had a ghost writer too?
Me either. I always associate Caesar with salad or a style of birth.
Gaul is divided in three parts ...
I didn’t realize that Ceasar was known for his writing.
Didn’t he write “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”??
From what I remember, Julius Caesar didn’t fall back on the word “extraordinary” quite so often.
This is Kim Jung-Il territory.
Great to translate but great writing? Millinial great writing?
NEA needs a new Chairman. This one is stoooopid.
Hmmmm. Caeser. Wonder what happened to him?
I would not buy anything Obama wrote he is a walking liar.Besides didn’t Bill Ayers write his books for him..
Of course he did! Surely you have heard the expression, "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
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A Chairman of the NEA should be well enough educated to realize that Julius Caesar destroyed the Roman Republic, made himself dictator of Rome, and could only be removed from office by murder. I wouldn’t have invited such a comparative.
See Glenn Beck for examples of Obama’s “great writing”, today’s show......
You can listen to him reading his “book” about his Marxist Profs, his structural feminists friends, his performance artist friends, his redistribution of wealth comments (read for a Grammy),,,
these people really, truly, do worship this guy.
Like the murderous followers of Chairman Mao.
Where’s the projectile vomit alert??
Is this a good place for someone to insert the “WTF Kitty?”
Much easier than Josephus. Caesar was the Hemingway of his time as simplicity and clarity of expression goes. Yet I do not rememebr anyone ever considered him a great writer.
And Obama is not a simple speaker — his speeches run on, he uses complexity to obfuscate and create emotional responses. Something completely absent in the works of Caesar I remember from high school.
An English writer named Gibbons wrote “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Actually Caesar wrote a famous book about his campaigns in Gaul battling with Vercingetorix and the Gauls. El Presidente’s ghost written fluff is worthy of being toilet paper when compared to what Caesar did.
- comparative
+ comparison
Also posted on that thread...a description of Julius Caesar from Wikipedia:
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He heavily centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity" (dictator perpetuo). A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC, hoping to restore the normal running of the Republic. However, the result was another Roman civil war, which ultimately led to the establishment of a permanent autocracy by Caesar's adopted heir, Gaius Octavianus. In 42 BC, two years after his assassination, the Senate officially sanctified Caesar as one of the Roman deities.
Sound familiar, anyone?
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Also posted on that thread...a description of Julius Caesar from Wikipedia:
After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He heavily centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed "dictator in perpetuity" (dictator perpetuo). A group of senators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC, hoping to restore the normal running of the Republic. However, the result was another Roman civil war, which ultimately led to the establishment of a permanent autocracy by Caesar's adopted heir, Gaius Octavianus. In 42 BC, two years after his assassination, the Senate officially sanctified Caesar as one of the Roman deities.
Sound familiar, anyone?
LOL!
Or Caesar Romero.
Hmmm, if 0bama is Caesar, then who might be Brutus?
I nominate Rahm Emmanuel.
Et tu?
Me either. What did he write besides Commentaries on the Gallic Wars? We read parts of that in 10th grade Latin, and I wasn't really impressed.
Congressman Billybob
Great Caesar’s Ghost Writer!
‘Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar’ - NEA Chairman (worship alert)””
Yo , Bill Ayers, listen up!!!!!!!!!
Mad enough yet?????????
Go out and get those royalties !!!!!!!!!
Tell the world, you short wimpy POS Marxist mad bomber, who killed your own girlfriend by asking her to make your bombs, which you were too cowardly to construct yourself.
Step on an American flag and laugh about it will ya???
Come over to Free Republic and try that.
Or as Serranno said “Bring that sh*t to me, man!”
Marcus Aurelius, anyone?
Nobody had to kill him, except in the movie.
Yes. He was known as “Great Ceasar’s ghost!”(with apologies to Perry White).
I guess he missed St Thomas Aquinas. Churchill anyone? Who was that Italian? Oh yeah, Machiavelli.
I’m assuming the NEA sycophant is talking about writers who are also p[oliticians so there’s no need to mention others.
And of course we all know Obama didn’t write Dreams From My Father.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Well, it’s not just Gaul that’s getting divided...even into three parts.
Furthermore, the NEA guy must be so widely read that he needs Benedictine monks to keep his library.
Actually he was known for his ability to read off a teleprompter.
I forgot the: </sarcasm>
at the end!
I would have guessed, maybe, that the Gospels would have rated a little higher.
Friends....Romans ..let me be clear"...'unexpectedly"...Bush..Bush...Bush!!!
Nah, the empire was still rising when he was around so he missed the whole falling thing. Gibbon is your man.
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