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I saw the article below, and thought of this thread. Definitely worth a post here. C seems to have trouble imagining that I could visit this site for any reason other than to argue with him, so here's a post that just goes to show that I'm also now quite willing to slander his already- crappy name, too.
Back to topside for me...happy reading, all.
I, Clintonius
(by Robert Stacy McCain, Washington Times, October 9, 2001)
Former President Bill Clinton is reported to have recently lamented that he didn't have a "defining moment" — such as the current war against terrorism — during his presidency.
One visitor to Andrew Sullivan's Web site, www.andrewsullivan.com, pointed out Mr. Clinton's similarity to a historical figure described by the Roman historian Suetonius:
"He even used openly to deplore the state of his times, because they had been marked by no public disasters, saying that the rule of Augustus had been made famous by the Varus massacre, and that of Tiberius by the collapse of the amphitheatre at Fidenae, while his own was threatened with oblivion because of its prosperity, and every now and then he wished for the destruction of his armies, for famine, pestilence, fires, or a great earthquake."
To whom was Suetonius referring? Caligula.
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