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NEA Head:"Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar!"

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There is a new president and a new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that actually ~~lets Bill Ayers ghostwrite his books~~ writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to ~~have found a really talented ghostwriter~~ 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.

Candidate Obama was the first in my memory to establish an arts advisory committee and the first to propose an arts policy. President Obama followed that up by making a surprising, ~~leftist~~ out-of-left field choice to head the NEA, a signal I certainly took to mean he wasnt interested in business-as-usual for the arts. Not long ago he even referenced the NEA when talking about the budget deficit issue. He said, in a speech at Georgetown University: Lets not kid ourselves and suggest that we can solve this problem bycutting the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.

MMM MMM MMM Barack Caesar Obama!

Posted by Clavimp Jart8750 2009-10-27 12:23|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 The cited article is one of the best self-parodies I have ever read.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-27 13:09|| 2009-10-27 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 JUST PUKED.........gotta go clean up

Posted by armyguy 2009-10-27 13:12|| 2009-10-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Ceasar huh? I guess I know which side of freedom you fall on dumbass.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-10-27 13:33|| 2009-10-27 13:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I should invest in Kool aid! These guys are gulping it down...

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-10-27 13:58|| 2009-10-27 13:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Obamallatio.

Posted by SteveS 2009-10-27 14:05|| 2009-10-27 14:05|| Front Page Top

#6 BULLSHIT

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-27 14:07|| 2009-10-27 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 I heard that Bammo ghost wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, cured polio, was the first man on the moon and also invented the Internet.

Posted by Iblis 2009-10-27 14:20|| 2009-10-27 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar!"

Sing to us oh Gaius. Sing!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-10-27 14:20|| 2009-10-27 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 NEA was established during LBJ's administration. One of those Great Society things I guess. Can't imagine how we got by before then. Thanks, Lyndon. Thanks a lot. /sarc

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-10-27 15:19|| 2009-10-27 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't know if this guy wrote any books, just a couple of chapters. He did do his writing after Theodore Roosevelt.

I went in expecting to find them all in a dither of effort, engaged in the positive business of getting the troops, supplies, et., that will be needed to settle the Korean mess. They seemed indecisive, which was natural in view of the indecisiveness of political statements. I have no business talking about the basic political decision (to support or not to support South Korea). It happens that I believe we'll have a dozen Koreas soon if we don't take a firm stand, but it was not on that basis that I talked to my friends. My whole contention was that an appeal to force cannot, by its nature, be a partial one. This appeal, having been made, for God's sake, get ready! Do everything possible under the law to get us going.

An earlier chapter had something about soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expiditionary force.

I would think the steward of the arts would know this little bit of information.

Maybe he is onto something here, how did this most talented scribe form and grow?

Maybe, just maybe, without the NEA this good enough for government work master of arts may have gone into engineering and designed bridges and airplanes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-27 15:20|| 2009-10-27 15:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Just prepping for Obama's Nobel for Literature, guys and gals. After all, the bestest president evah can't be awarded merely one prize.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-27 15:54|| 2009-10-27 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 IMHO, "0" could not write the words to the Meow Mix jingle without help....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2009-10-27 16:00|| 2009-10-27 16:00|| Front Page Top

#13 My BS detector is being overworked by O and his meatheads. This is painful stuff!

Posted by whatadeal 2009-10-27 16:04|| 2009-10-27 16:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Obama ain't nuthin' until he's got a salad named after him.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2009-10-27 16:53|| 2009-10-27 16:53|| Front Page Top

#15 different Caesar - that one was Mexican

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-27 17:26|| 2009-10-27 17:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Why don't they give credit to where it belongs?
The Teleprompter of the United States:
There is no POTUS without TOTUS

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-10-27 18:04|| 2009-10-27 18:04|| Front Page Top

#17 Another example of the importance of TOTUS

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-10-27 18:24|| 2009-10-27 18:24|| Front Page Top

#18 I had to look to see if it was the National Endowment for the Arts, or the National Education Association. In either case, pathetic.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-27 18:48|| 2009-10-27 18:48|| Front Page Top

#19 TOTUS committed suicide.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-27 20:32|| 2009-10-27 20:32|| Front Page Top

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