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To: cripplecreek

I’m disgusted to see that there are so many idiots in this country who are dumb enough to worship this fraud. All this worship makes you think he has a past full of great achievements but Berry has none. The worship of such an egotistical empty suit can only mean his congregation is made up of degenerate liberals.


16 posted on 02/12/2009 4:45:37 PM PST by peeps36 ( Al Gore. Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: peeps36

A little about Commodus

http://www.roman-empire.net/highpoint/commodus.html

If Commodus merely had not lived up to the gruelingly high standards of his father, the world would have most likely forgiven him. But rather than just failing to be a brilliant emperor, Commodus was in fact a terrible one. Cruelty, vanity, power and fear formed into a terrifyingly dangerous mix of bloodlust, suspicion and megalomania. Commodus should be remembered as a monster, a tyrant who renamed months in his own honour, and who slaughtered his way through the circuses in ludicrous displays of ‘manliness’.

Despite his initial promises to the army to continue Marcus Aurelius’ attempts of expanding the empire into the territories conquered from the Quadi and Marcomanni, Commodus soon after surrendered all his father had achieved in his wars.
Indeed, Commodus’ thoughts that to annex these new territories might have been beyond the capabilities of Rome, could well have been correct. And had emperor Hadrian not relinquished some of the gains of his predecessor Trajan ? But Commodus was no Hadrian and the army knew it. Commodus’ retreat from those so direly contested territories was understood as an utter betrayal of everything the beloved Marcus Aurelius had stood for.


17 posted on 02/12/2009 5:00:15 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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