Posted by
Jason Cunningham on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:51:07 PM
Here's a gem for you, from Rocco Landesman, President Obama's handpicked chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, in a keynote address he gave last week to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference:
"This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to 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."
Whether Obama could be good for any artist other than the guy who "borrowed" someone else's work for the infamous "hope" poster, I don't know, but one thing's for sure: If Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar (and I never realized ol' Jules was such a wizard with the pen), then I suppose we should all start studying his words with Biblical fervor (he is, after all, the messiah, right?).