The Roman historian Suetonius recounts that in his waning days, the emperor Tiberius had grown “thoroughly disgusted with himself” having besmirched the honors and successes of his youth with extravagant devotion to a great variety of sexual perversions, interspersed with the paranoid murder and persecution of enemies, real and perceived. Recognizing that history would not look kindly upon him, Tiberius cast about for a solution. What he came up with condemned his country to madness and tyranny, but indeed improved his own image. Tiberius adopted the son of the man he probably murdered to ascend to emperor, the obviously sadistic and insane Gaius Caligula, and bequeathed Rome to him. President Obama is more popular at the end of his quasi-imperial reign than Tiberius was at the end of his. Feted and flattered still, it is unlikely that Obama feels disgusted with himself, if that’s even possible. Nor, of course, is Obama a deviant or a murderer, or Hillary...(Read Full Article)