Which past ruler does Bush most resemble ?

[steve2470]

I am including past Presidents as well as foriegn heads of state, both past and ancient. Feel free to go back to ancient Rome and Mesopotamia as well as ancient Africa and China. Should be interesting, this academic exercise :-)

On edit: I don't mean physically, I mean personality-wise and his governing style :puke:

[sakabatou]

1. Vlad the Impaler

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Nero. n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. Mussolini.

Attacked a backward nation, struts around in costume, juts that chin out.

Il Douche. :D

[endarkenment]

19. Precisly although Adenoid Hynkel

is a good runner up. (Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator.)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

22. lol true, but Hynkel was graceful ;)

[rocktivity]

4. Caligula

:scared:
rocknation

[0rganism]

13. Second the motion for Little Boots

nm

[Swamp Rat]

5. Himself

[kansasblue]

6. Peron.

[Eugene]

7. Louis XV

with shades of Louis XVI.

Après moi le Deluge.

[leftchick]

25. I agree

all he lacks is the wig....

[BlueJazz]

8. this one >>>

[ClintonTyree]

10. I was going to say............

THIS one....




but, yours is better. He doesn't quite measure up to the one I found. ;)

[rndmprsn]

9. i know its a cliche

but hitler and the nazi's with some medieval catholic church thrown in too...

ultra-nationalist facists, massive and skilful use of propaganda, divide and conquer, homophobes, merge religion and politics, global empire wished for, work done behind closed doors, preyed on people's good will, aggressive in the extreme to opposition...

and ultimately reach exceeded grasp.

[delen]

11. Not a Ruler but

Walt Disney



Created fantasy world for public consmuption, while making his "lands or worlds" basically secret police states where the only law is his.

[tjwash]

12. Herbert Hoover

Calvin Coolidge maybe.

[shaniqua6392]

14. Machiavelli

I think that he read "The Prince" and fancies himself in this light.

[rndmprsn]

15. me too, its prolly one of the few books he has read and can relate too

[shaniqua6392]

17. And Georgie said.....

I can weed dis book cuz it is weely, weely small!!!!!

[0rganism]

24. Rove? Yes. Cheney? Probably. Bush jr.? No.

It's not that he wouldn't appreciate the take, but the content would fly right over his head. Not because he isn't smart enough, oh I'm sure he's smart enough to understand it, but really he just doesn't care. He's more likely to have Aunty Rice read him the Cliff Notes version to put him to sleep on warm nights than pick it up himself.

[ironman202]

16. As a leader, Khomeini

fundamentalist, religious, intolerant, irrational.

As a man, if his last name hadn't been Bush, the best he could do is probably Assistant Football coach at Crap State.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Augusto Pinochet

He is a hero of the RW.

[LoKnLoD]

20. Mad Ludwig

King of Bavaria who built all the castles (Neuschwanstein, etc), the one who used to bring his horses into the dining room to have dinner with him. They threw is insane ass into a lake.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. Jim Jones...

Leader of the very first colony of Freeptile Kool-Aid KKKids

[PATRICK]

23. Warren Harding as "Nero"

n/t

[Horse with no Name]

26. Attila the Hun.

"He ravaged much of the European continent during
the 5th century AD."

Same can be said about George ravaging the Middle East during the 21st century AD.

[pointblank]

27. DR EVIL

[leftylady]

28. He reminds me of those 15th century guys that were so prissy.

All dressed up in wigs and lace. And this little prissy look on their faces.

[leftofthedial]

29. Caligula and Mussolini are both pretty apropos

[morningglory]

30. Was there a "ruler" in Planet of the apes? Just asking...

[tomg]

31. I have to go with Domitian

Roman emperor from 81 to 96 c.e. Not a complete nutbucket like Caligula, Domitian was simply quite the incompetent and, finally, a paranoid. He wrecked the economy, shackled the Senate ( executing a number of senators), and was completely out of touch with military. One of my favorite comments from Tacitus (the Roman Historian, not the right wing blogger) is that under Domitian, it was not enough to simply go along with Domitian's atrocities, but he forced attendance at Senate meetings and senators were required to applaud his decisions.

"Even Nero turned his eyes away, and did not gaze upon the atrocities which he ordered; with Domitian it was the chief part of our miseries to see and to be seen, to know that our sighs were being recorded."

[steve2470]

32. Great research nt

[steve2470]

33. kick for the evening crowd nt