President Nero

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Emperor Nero - an evil madman if there ever was one - fiddled while Rome burned.

And today Chimperor Bush is fiddling - well, actually strumming his guitar - while Americans are flooded out of New Orleans, while American soldiers are dying in Iraq, while oil prices climb higher and higher with no end in sight, while corporate executives loot their companies by drawing huge salaries while laying off tens of thousands of American workers.

President Nero is golfing and strumming and having fun while people are spending their second day on rooftops in New Orleans, while hospitals there are performing surgery with minimal anesthesia, while thousands of homes and businesses have been smashed to ruins.

I wonder if Bush is the reincarnation of Emperor Nero. He shows the same callous disdain for the suffering of poor and middle-class Americans that Nero did for the average people of rome.