Posted on 08/27/2010 2:55:17 PM PDT by markomalley
"Let me eat shrimp," said Barack Obama to a reporter this week as he toiled in Martha's Vineyard. This Marie Antoinette wannabe has no intention of letting anyone get their hands on cake, I fear. Black bread and thin gruel, more likely.
If historical and monarchical metaphors are the order of the day, we might reach more readily for Nero of Rome, said to have fiddled while his domain sizzled. The state of our economy is shaky at best, while global crises whirl unabated from Tehran to Pyongyang to Islamabad and even in pronounceable places like Wall Street. The President is being flip like Wilson, recalling the apocryphal Antoinette apothegm, but more significantly he seems to be floating aimlessly like flotsam and jetting aimlessly like jetsam, recalling Nero's neurosis.
What I'm sayin' is that the man is hopelessly lost. He has no clue what to do next, but the show must go on. He has his game face on, but the game may be over.
THE GREEK COLUMNS FRAMED Senator Obama as he accepted the nomination to run for President. "Narcissus!" shouted some. "Hubris!" shouted others. Now after nineteen months of Greco-Roman wrestling with the big job, he seems to have decided it's all Greek to him and it is time for that Roman fiddle.
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I know what I’d like the Obamaloon to eat - and the first two letters of the word are exactly the the same as “shrimp”.
well, at least he’s not a Muslim then ;)
not a good one anyway
Shrimp in the White House?
Shucks, I thought this was a thread about Rahm Emanuel (/snic).
He tried to change his image---but nobody would believe he was Aretha Franklin.
If Moochell flew commercial she would be classed as a "customer of size."
Barack the magic Nero?
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-28/local/me-7076_1_gay-community
The name was a play on a part of the male anatomy.
For some reason, the title of this article conjures up a small repulsive image.
It should have been titled “Little Shrimp in the White House.”
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He really has a GAY old time doesn’t he?
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