or projectile vomit, you make the call
I will not link to the article because it appears to be AP. I found it at Fox News if you really care to abuse yourself far be it from me to stop you from looking.
Obama, a Science Buff, Is Washington’s Mr. Spock
He shows a fascination with science, an all-too deliberate decision-making demeanor, an adherence to logic and some pretty, ahem, prominent ears.
They all add up to a quite logical conclusion, at least for “Star Trek” fans: Barack Obama is Washington’s Mr. Spock, the chief science officer for the ship of state.
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He’s not at all like Spock. More like Leonard Nimoy, he plays an intellect. Unfortunately he plays a third rate intellect. Badly.
Oddly teenage boys thought more of Spock than Kirk. Sorry Bill(Shatner)
(Odd Spock is in the spellcheck Nimoy and Shatner aren’t.)
Hmmm… The new movie shows Spock as temperamentally unable to captain the ship, and even the old series had him always and forever subservient to the action-oriented Kirk. So I’m down with the idea the idea that Obama is not temperamentally suited to the top spot.
But genes is right; it’s all an act anyway. I’m now to the point that I’m really tired of hearing about the “world class intellect” for which no one can find any direct evidence except their own intuition. Obama *plays* the cool intellectual, but it’s just a facade to facilitate his inner, emotional leftist.
Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Or The One.
Thank you for completing the reference, but it’s clear that nothing outweighs the needs of the One.
No, no, no, absolutely wrong…Spock was the one with the pointy ears; The Obamanation merely has a pointy head.
Besides - Spock nearly always operated on the basis of pure logic and reason, whereas the D.C. “Ship Of State” virtually never allows either logic or reason to intrude upon operational matters, no matter who is “in charge”…inside the Beltway, any “science” utilized is invariably junk science.
He’s more like Chance the Community Organizer (aka Gardener) than anything out of Star Trek.
Or perhaps Forrest Gump.
Nope. Forrest was a man of his word.
The reason Spock would not make a good CO is that he does not have a good understanding of people. Jihadis would be a bigger mystery to him than Sanskrit is to a first grader. Which, now that I think about it, is pretty much like the Won.
Sorry, but I can’t agree with that one. For all that he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, the patriotic character of (fictional, of course) Forrest Gump was absolutely unquestionable, throughout…whereas, in the case of the Community-Organizer-In-Chief, though there’s a bit of public lip-service given, the absolute opposite of American patriotism is clearly demonstrated repeatedly.
In addition, I would rate The Anointed Won as somewhat inferior to ol’ Forrest in overall intelligence - in the end, being a clever con-man does not demonstrate more than marginal brain-power. A political con-man has no lack of willing accomplices - including many of his victims - who will assist in the con, while an honest man like Gump has only his innate wisdom to help him through the jungle.
I was thinking more along the lines of how a complete non-entity, like Chance the Gardener in Being There, could sort of luck into becoming POTUS. From Community Organizer to one term Senator with nothing to show for it to The Accidental President (or the Affirmative Action President if you prefer) he seems to have waltzed into the most powerful position on Earth by pure happenstance.
Which made me think of how Forrest Gump would somehow pop up in the picture whenever something important was going on.
Point taken about how Obama differs from Forrest. One thing for sure is that Forrest would never be so arrogant to think of himself as “the One because I Won”.
I think Chance the Community Organizer is the more apt comparison, especially when it seems that in reality Obama seems to be well in over his head in so many ways.
Re his Asia visit I have seen comments as [paraphrasing, not direct quotes] “displayed weakness and hence there is no fear or admiration, thereby losing respect” and “the Chinese cleverly controlled the Agenda so that when standing before the Great Wall the ‘Leader of the Most Powerful Nation’ seemed more in Awe than in Command.” With a picture of the moment which seemed to visually back up that assessment.
Forest is my HERO.
The biggest difference between him and the Won, (besides Forest’s innate courage and decency), was that Forest was totally self-aware. He knew himself, and his limits. You could see this in what I consider the best scene in the movie.
When he first meets Little Forest, he asks ‘his Jenny’ - Is he smart, or is he . . . like me?
That level of introspection is simply not possible for Hopey Samey.
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Certainly the credulous actions of his supporters remind me of the way the various people were impressed with Chance acted in the movie. They didn’t see what he really was, only what they dearly wanted to see.
Not Chance either. He was an innocent. He possessed “no guile, no intent to deceive”. The rest of the characters you can transfer to the Obama story, but not Chance.
Remember, the cold war Russians were taken by him too.
He’s my favorite Sellers character. I like him a lot better than Forest Gump.