Keep going, I'd like to see your reasoning.
That Hillary - who could also play several of their roles in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - is supposedly a woman also fits the vain, self-absorbed Nero while its society and ecomonic base fell around her and barbarians began to sweep in across the borders (where invited in!) through a newly-defenseless Roman military.
All of the following is from Wikipedia, which may or may not be a reliable source--but if it is, each phrase here describing Commodus also describes the present occupant of the Oval Office:
"comparatively peaceful in the military sense but was marked by political strife and the increasingly arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself"
"he seems to have had little interest in the business of administration and tended throughout his reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites"
"After those attempts on his life [at the beginning of his reign], Commodus spent much of his time outside Rome, mostly on the family estates at Lanuvium"
"he stressed his own personal uniqueness as the bringer of a new order, seeking to re-cast the empire in his own image"
And the last one...
"During 191, the city of Rome was extensively damaged by a fire that raged for several days...early in 192 Commodus, declaring himself the new Romulus, ritually re-founded Rome, renaming the city Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana. All the months of the year were renamed to correspond exactly with his (now twelve) names: Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius. The legions were renamed Commodianae, the fleet which imported grain from Africa was termed Alexandria Commodiana Togata, the Senate was entitled the Commodian Fortunate Senate, his palace and the Roman people themselves were all given the name Commodianus, and the day on which these reforms were decreed was to be called Dies Commodianus."
Anyone here think Obama would not do this, given the opportunity?