'Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar'

National Review Online ^ | 10/28/09 | K J Lopez

[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.

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL

[Dick Bachert]

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

[charles1252]

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

[Brilliant]

They turned him into a salad.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

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.

[ctdonath2]

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

[Alter Kaker]

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.

[Plutarch]

Hitler was a powerful leader, she could have said that Obama's writings were the most powerful since Mein Kampf.

[NMR Guy]

I heard Obama bowled 11 perfect 300 games in a row.

[paulycy]

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.

[Canedawg]

“Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors.”
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LOL

And of presidents, too.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[ozaukeemom]

That was the thought that popped into my head! lol

[NCC-1701]

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

[BigEdLB]

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.

[GOPJ]

Obama is the Milli Vanilli of authors.

Tagable.

[gigster]

"I have a gwate fwend in Wome named...Biggus...Dickus..."

[cookcounty]

I particularly liked Obama's masterpiece "Fugitive Days"

[chainsaw]

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

[MissMagnolia]

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