Let’s be honest. The REAL reason Barry ditched his fake presidential seal was that his Latin slogan “Vero Possumus” was interpreted by most people to mean something like “I [heart] possums”. Which is all well & good for capturing the Granny Clampett vote, but lacks overall appeal for the general election.
But personally, I say he should keep the faux seal and just change up the motto – my suggestions for which I offer below.
NOTE TO LATIN SCHOLARS:I know many of these are either ungrammatical or even just flat wrong. I had to resort to a crappy online Latin translator as a baseline for these, and I tweaked some of the results to make them sound better. So if you’ll forgo the flames in the comments, I’ll make it up to you by writing “Romani Ite Domum” 100 times. Hail Caeser!
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- Sub Currus Vobis – Under The Bus With You
- Genus Tabellae Victoria – Race Card Triumphant
- Purus Articulatus Arrogantis Potius- Clean, articulate, arrogant, elitist.
- Iste Infantia Patris – Your Baby Daddy
- Non Terebratus Via Forus Hoc – Can’t drill your way out of this
- E LVII Unum – Out of 57, one.
- Quies Albi – Don’t criticize me, Whitey!
- Praeterquam Senex – At least I’m not old.
- Vostrum Novus Birotae – Barack Obama is your new bicycle.
- Semper Volo Ad Pactus – Always willing to negotiate.
- Cruor Tyrannis Dolor Mortis Atrocitas Miseria – Beloved man of the people.
Feel free to pile on in the comments.
‘Specially like that there last ‘un.
Quisnam est John Galt?
He needs to regain his base’s trust so the obvious one is:
Frutex haud ictus populus quondam = Bush lied, people died
(so I don’t get flamed, that is technically Bush no truth people deceased, cause the crappy latin translator for bush lied people died (Frutex lied populus died) looked stupid in Latin
Haud Mancipium Cruor
No slave blood.
Perfututatus Est (We’re completely f’d).
On second thought, flame away.
When closing the window I had the translator open in I discovered I had typed in “Bush no thruth people deceased”
I don’t know what the thruth is, but when one uses truth the crappy latin translation should have been:
frutex haud verum populus quondam
Merdem Meam Non Putet! (My Shit Doesn’t Stink!)
Possut Id Fodere? (Can You Dig It?)
Odi Album Quoque. (I Hate Whitey Too)
Timeato Vir Brunum, Sed Timeamus Tonum Brunum,. (You’re scared of the brown man, but we’re scared of the “Brown Note”.)
You’d think he’d want his motto in Arabic.
inbecillus
I know this isn’t Latin, but it works so well I thought I’d throw it in here:
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin
I’m just glad the latin for “we can” is “possumus” and not “coonus”
Semper ubi Sub ubi.
vir ex rectus secui duos – Man from Plains Part 2
with that “possumus” in the title, I can’t help but think of the Possum Lodge motto “Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati” (when all else fails, play dead) from the Red Green Show.
Oddly, that seems pretty appropriate.
I’m no Latin genius, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the correct translation for the last one…
RedMindBlueState
That’s what happens when I type too fast…
You missed the obvious one
Veni, Vedi, ViTalked
Veni vidi Flipfloppi
carpe simian
metuere, valdius metuere!
be afraid, be very afraid (after all he said we’d say it!)
Zero Possumus
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Lucidus et Rutilus – sed Capillus absens incumbo Boules.
Bright and red – but hair missing on balls.
Six Centum Sexaginta Six
(5 stars just for the Life of Brian reference)
Maximus Exretimus Cranimus
Six Centum Sexaginta Six DCLXVI
there, that’s better.
Maximus Lipimus Glutimus
Maximus Libras Cranimus – total airhead. I think the 1st two are self explanatorimus
We donnu need no stinkin a badges.
Wait, that’s Spanish Italian. Nevermind
Dude…
POTUS Potius !!!
Volo Vestri Bellaria
(I Want Your Pie)
E PLURIBUS URIN
Gehenna vergent? – Hellbender?…
Where is it?
How many know that “vero” is pronounced “weero”? At least that’s what Mrs. MacInanny taught us in first year Latin.
non cogito (I don’t think)
This one seemed obvious, considering all the non-thinking going on by him.
“Bush no truth people deceased”
Actually that sounds about right given the English skills of the people who usually use it.
And I love the bicycle site. He baked me a pie! That was nice of him. What a nice man.
Maybe Obama is courting Peter Potamus for Veep?
Qua istuc cuncta albus amatoris multae?
Let me give you a hint: It’s a famous line from Blazing Saddles…
Of course it may be totally skewed, but I just can’t justify wasting any more time cross-checking on that translator.
Is it “you use your tongue prettier’n a 20 dollar whore”?
In silva , validus silva
Usus somnus in nox noctis.
(In the jungle, the mighty jungle,
The possum sleeps tonight.)
Res publica Suffragium caveo
Republican voter beware
Ayyyyup.