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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.
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: obamaromanemperor; romanempire
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
“It is interesting that we know more about the Caesars than we do about King Harold and the kings who lived 1000 years later.”
True, but we know as much about King Harold’s academic record as we know about BO’s.
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posted on
08/31/2014 5:40:26 PM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: Prospero
Ditto
One of my all times
To: SunkenCiv
As you probably know, seeing your knowledge of Roman history, people should be careful in taking the debauchery tales of Roman Emperors as lock solid fact, Caligula included. What we know of them is from the writings of a few contemporary writers who all had a political spin. It would be like looking back on us and using the video of MSNBC as the repository of truth about 21st Century America. These writers were not objective historians, but usually propagandists for their current imperial regime. To discredit other family lines, like the Julians for example, was not uncommon to make the current emperor look better in comparison. A lot of the tales of debauchery is exaggerated if not false.
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:29:27 PM PDT
by
gusty
To: Pelham
The origins of Islam are directly related to the borderlands of the Roman and Persian Empires. The Arab tribes on the borders were aware of religious thought within the Eastern Roman Empire. They borrowed and modified quite a lot of it. The Arabs served both empires as mercenaries. Some current historians of the period are know doubting that a Muhammed even existed. That the Koran itself was only written decades after the Arabs conquered the area. Their conquest was helped by the brutal war between the Byzantine and Persians brought both empires to ruin, thus allowing the Arabs to burst out of the borderlands against both.
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:38:13 PM PDT
by
gusty
To: barnrat
You might consider Sunni Ali Ber of the
Sohghai Empire.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:12:19 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: gusty
thanks. I enjoy your posts.
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posted on
08/31/2014 9:28:47 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
To: grumpygresh
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posted on
09/01/2014 6:35:11 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
To: Slyfox
Seriesly? You compare him to a brave and competant military leader, who as Emperor cut taxes and reduced the central bureaucracy?
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posted on
09/01/2014 6:45:08 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
To: Oztrich Boy
Julian the Apostate pretended to be a Christian in order to secure the trust of the people.
Just like Obama when he got elected both times.
Nero and Caligula were both essentially hellhounds.
Just like Obama at the end of his reign.
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posted on
09/01/2014 7:11:16 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
To: Oztrich Boy
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posted on
09/01/2014 7:29:34 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
To: grumpygresh
Julian the Apostate. He was an underachiever who wanted to roll back the Empire from Christianity to paganism.
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posted on
09/02/2014 7:28:08 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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