Obama the Great?

Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States, compared Obama to Alexander the Great, the Macedonian conquerer. The state-loving cleric meant this as praise, but while Alexander was brilliant, wasn’t he also a crazed imperialist, killer, and looter? Aristotle was his tutor, but that hardly compensates.

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12:49 pm on March 26, 2009