So I made this website on a whim, because someday I might want to do something with it, I haven't really decided yet. It will be a political blog. The name is best explained with the following, from the wikipedia entry for the greek hero Sarpedon:
The second Sarpedon, king of Lycia, a descendant of the preceding, was a son of Zeus and Laodamia, daughter of Bellerophon.[5] Sarpedon became king when his uncles withdrew their claim to Lycia.[6] He fought on the side of the Trojans, with his cousin Glaucus, during the Trojan War[7] becoming one of Troy's greatest allies and heroes.
He scolded Hector in the Iliad (Book 5, lines 471-492) claiming that he left all the hard fighting to the allies of Troy and not to the Trojans themselves, and made a point of saying that the Lycians had no reason to fight the Greeks, or no real reason to hate them, but because he was a faithful ally to Troy he would do so and fight his best anyway.[8] When the Trojans attacked the wall newly built by the Greeks, Sarpedon led his men (who also included Glaucus and Asteropaios) to the forefront of the battle and caused Ajax and Teucer to shift their attention from Hector's attack to that of Sarpedon's forces. He personally held up the battlements and was the first to enter the Greek encampment. This attack allowed Hector to break through the Greek wall. It was during this action that Sarpedon delivered a noblesse oblige speech to Glaucus,[9] stating that they had been the most honoured kings, therefore they must now fight the most to repay that honour and prove themselves and repay their loyal subjects. While he was preparing to plunge into battle, he told Glaucus that together they would go on to glory: if they were successful, the glory would be their own; if not, the glory of whoever stopped them would be the greater.
(Yes, Obama is Hector in this implied analogy. The parallels between the Greeks and the Trojans mirror those between Republicans and Democrats in many ways.)
