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'Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar'
National Review Online ^ | 10/28/09 | K J Lopez

Posted on 10/28/2009 10:08:03 AM PDT by BigEdLB

This, from the president's chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Scott Johnson goes to town, in response.

Rocco Landesman, the NEA chairman, said, in part:

This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: caeser; cultofpersonality; learntospellcaesar; obama; obamamessiah
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To: BigEdLB

ROTFLOL


41 posted on 10/28/2009 10:23:39 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: BigEdLB

Memo to Obozo: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH — AND APRIL AND MAY AND...


42 posted on 10/28/2009 10:23:39 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: pke

Ha, Ha, Ha........very good, I liked that.


43 posted on 10/28/2009 10:24:28 AM PDT by charles1252
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To: Izzy Dunne

They turned him into a salad.


44 posted on 10/28/2009 10:25:24 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: GOPJ

Man this guy is so far gone he gave me the Goebel’s and Himmler chills all at once. I hope his wife knows where his mouth has been. Poor lady.


45 posted on 10/28/2009 10:26:43 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: BigEdLB

Cult of personality underway, lauded and awarded for what he doing what he didn’t.


46 posted on 10/28/2009 10:26:47 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (End the coup!)
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To: BigEdLB
Ulysses S. Grant was by and large lousy in office, but wrote by far the best memoirs of any US President.

Teddy Roosevelt, however, did pretty well.

Worst writer in office? Well, in the modern era that award has to go to Bill Clinton.

47 posted on 10/28/2009 10:27:13 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: BigEdLB
Hitler was a powerful leader, she could have said that Obama's writings were the most powerful since Mein Kampf.
48 posted on 10/28/2009 10:27:20 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: BigEdLB
I heard Obama bowled 11 perfect 300 games in a row.
49 posted on 10/28/2009 10:30:09 AM PDT by NMR Guy
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To: Alter Kaker
Worst writer in office? Well, in the modern era that award has to go to Bill Clinton.

That's only because you value quality over quantity.

50 posted on 10/28/2009 10:30:32 AM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
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To: Natural Law

“Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors.”
*******

LOL

And of presidents, too.


51 posted on 10/28/2009 10:31:54 AM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: Parley Baer
Probably ten thousand books have been written about Lincoln, but I believe the number of books written by Lincoln is the same as the number of books actually written by Obama...zero.

This statement praising Obama is terribly insulting to John F. Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and their ghostwriters.

52 posted on 10/28/2009 10:33:42 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ClearCase_guy

That was the thought that popped into my head! lol


53 posted on 10/28/2009 10:33:42 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (Is it 2012 yet?)
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To: pallis

But he did stay at a Holiday Inn Expess. Guess that made him the great wordsmith he is.


54 posted on 10/28/2009 10:35:19 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: NMR Guy
I heard Obama bowled 11 perfect 300 games in a row.

He would have had many more but slipped on Rahm Emmanuel's spilled beer, and had a foul, putting and end to the streak.
55 posted on 10/28/2009 10:37:32 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Natural Law
Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors.

Tagable.

56 posted on 10/28/2009 10:37:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors. Freeper: Natural Law)
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To: BigEdLB
"I have a gwate fwend in Wome named...Biggus...Dickus..."
57 posted on 10/28/2009 10:37:37 AM PDT by gigster
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To: BigEdLB
I particularly liked Obama's masterpiece "Fugitive Days"
58 posted on 10/28/2009 10:37:49 AM PDT by cookcounty (Obama: ---Despiser of the Honduran Constitution and contemptuous of ours.)
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To: johnnyjumpstart

What ever happened to that Caesar chap anyway?

Julius Caesar — Cause of Death: Assassination, Age 57

stabbed by Brutus. et tu brute’ ... brutus stabbed him from the back


59 posted on 10/28/2009 10:39:13 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: tal hajus

Well, he doesn’t have to worry about a colonoscopy any time soon ...... not enough room.


60 posted on 10/28/2009 10:40:29 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Obad. 1:15: As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.)
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