A Good Roman Emperor

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kikus of AL 7:27PM June 12, 2010

как всегда на высоте

kikus of AL 7:20PM June 12, 2010

YES HISTORICALLY DEPRIVED ONES, THERE WAS A PERIOD OF FIVE GOOD

EMPERORS DURING THE TIMES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

UNFORTUNATELY FOR MARCUS AURELIUS HE HAD TO SPEND THE LAST 16 YEARS OF HIS RULE FIGHTING "BARBARIAN" GERMANIC TRIBES IN THE FORESTS OF WHAT TODAY IS SLOVENIA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

THE IDEA THAT YOU WERE EITHER A "THINKER" OR A "FIGHTER WOULD APPEAR AS "NONSENSE" TO THE ANCIENTS, IN THEIR WORLD YOU HAD TO DO BOTH OR YOU WOULD NOT SURVIVE .

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ of FL 2:36AM September 01, 2008

I think Obama would make a great emperor... I think the god status is a little too much right now... but after a few years of being an Emperor he might pull it off. How about an Obama statue in every community?

David of FL 3:58PM August 28, 2008

"Think more and fight less". Sounds good. I'm sure every terrorist and dictator in the world would like America to do that. Obama could sit and think while China attacks Taiwan or Russia marches into Poland. He could think while Iran fires missiles at Israel. We've tried withdrawning from the world before. Pearl Harbor taught us it was not a good idea.

of GA 1:29PM August 28, 2008

Fascinating as this is, I'd rather democratically elect a good president than dig up an old marble emperor. Obama 08! He's the one guaranteed to think more and fight less---something Bonnie here says is a virtue, and she's right about that.

Now, if we can just slip it past America's war-hobbying church club that somehow calls itself "conservative".

of 1:09PM August 28, 2008

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Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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