I agree that our situation is too close to the late Roman republic than is comfortable, but Barack Hussein Obama is not fit to carry Gaius Julius Caesar’s subligaculum.
Caesar was personally brave, fought for his country, was militarily competent, won trials as an attorney, could balance a budget, wrote his own books and was without question a citizen.
“subligaculum”
You have surpassed my Latin Vocabulary, and left me wondering. Huh?
>>>I agree that our situation is too close to the late Roman republic than is comfortable, but Barack Hussein Obama is not fit to carry Gaius Julius Caesar’s subligaculum.
Caesar was personally brave, fought for his country, was militarily competent, won trials as an attorney, could balance a budget, wrote his own books and was without question a citizen.<<<
If I had to come up with some kind of Roman Republic metaphor for our Dear Leader, I’d nominate Tiberius Graccus, who used the law - some would say, twisted the law - to get the mob to support his efforts to redistribute land and wealth from the rich to the poor. He was eventually killed by the Senate, but his reforms lived on, eventually producing centuries later the bread and circuses we now think of when considering Roman decay.
His brother Gaius wanted to give citizenship to all Latin citizens and allies - amnesty, anyone? He also appealed to the mob to gain power.
The efforts by these two lead to the Social War, which wasn’t pretty.
However, metaphors aren’t the reality on the ground. I’ve just been reading “The Black Swan,” and something that the author makes clear is that we’re not very good about predicting sudden calamitous events, and that using stories about the past to tell us about events in the future doesn’t have a very good track record, either. I don’t know what Obama will bring, other than saying my gut tells me it will be unpredictable and probably bad for my country and culture. And I’m keeping my eyes open and gun cleaned. Not to mention daily prayer.