[Indy Pendance]

“Are you confusing Caligula with Claudius.”

No, I’m not Claudius is an idiot, so is obama. The similarities are there. A roman emperor and the ‘leader of the free world’. Which person is going to destroy the republic?

[rbg81]

......Claudius is an idiot

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Honestly, you’re embarrasing yourself here.

I’m guessing you never saw “I, Claudius” or even read the book. If you had, you’d know that [the fictional] Cladius was quite wise, but he played the fool—which is why he survived to become Emperor. And the real one had a pretty good record of leading the Empire.

At least Claudius was a Roman who cared about keeping Rome great. In short, there’s no comparison with Obama.

[RoosterRedux]

Obama is many things but he is not an idiot (well, perhaps he is when it comes to his understanding of that oddly symmetrical and almost aesthetic subject, economics).

That said, the parallel between Claudius is tenuous...but the parallel between Obama and Caligula is profound.

I do appreciate your drawing parallels between the present and classical Rome...congrats on that.

Keep up the good work.

And Happy Thanksgiving.

[GeronL]

. Claudius was constantly forced to shore up his position; this resulted in the deaths of many senators. These events damaged his reputation among the ancient writers, though more recent historians have revised this opinion. Many authors contend that he was murdered by his own wife

Claudius' love life was unusual for an upper-class Roman of his day, in that he was the only one out of the first 15 emperors not to take men or boys, but only women as lovers

Uh-oh... comparison might falter here...

He was not a good guy, but apparently the people around him was worse.

[vladimir998]

Claudius was not an idiot. He was actually a genius.