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11-20-08

Cassius!

I was told that we were supposed to write a paper about if we HAD to choose between Brutus, Cassius, or Antony for President. Which would I pick?

Well I say Cassius. Why? Well, in class we compared the three candidates with three real life candidates from this past election. We decided that Brutus was a lot like Ron Paul, has good ideas but isn’t really in the real world. Cassius was like John McCain, because he was a war hero who knew what was going on in the world. And Antony was a reflection of Barack Obama, a really good speaker, but just wants to “lead away the hearts of the people”.

So I say Cassius is the best bet here. Because he is the only one that would take control of the government and do the right thing with the war that they had on their hands. In the play, it talks about how Brutus doesn’t want to tax the people to pay for the war. But Cassius is just trying to keep the moral of their troops at a believable level by paying them.

Brutus is right that it isn’t perfect that they are taking so much money from the people, but he doesn’t see that it is necessary in the big hullabaloo that they got themselves into.

Marcus Antony is a good guy, but he has been driven to weird things by the death of his “God”, Caesar. He believes that the only thing for him to do on the contrary is to attack the people who tried to overthrow the man he saw as the “Good Guy”.

So those are my reasons for “voting for” Cassius. But you have to understand that I only support him because he is the person that I think would be the least terrible, if you know what I mean. Cassius would do what was necessary to make the war, that the other people made, as non destructive as possible and save the republic.

We can’t know exactly how Cassius would have handled things. But I think he would have done a pretty good job at it. Better then the other two.

Eli