Except, of course, that Mr. Spock did not have this kook as his mentor:
The Associated Press insists that the ditherer and waffler in the White House and former ACORN organizer is like Mr. Spock.
FOX Nation reported on the latest AP propaganda piece:
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.
“I guess it’s somewhat unusual for a politician to be so precise, logical, in his thought process,” actor Leonard Nimoy, who has portrayed Spock for more than 40 years, told The Associated Press in an e-mail interview. “The comparison to Spock is, in my opinion, a compliment to him and to the character.”
Until now.
Obama’s Spock-like qualities have started to cause him political problems in real world Washington. Critics see him as too technocratic, too deliberative, too lacking in emotion.
Obama’s protracted decision-making on a new war strategy in Afghanistan, for example, prompted criticisms that he’s too deliberate. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and other conservatives faulted Obama for “dithering.”
While it’s the slow decision making that has conservatives upset, especially when it comes to national security, it’s the science content of the presidential agenda that have the geeks insisting he’s gone where no nerd has gone before.
Obama was a lawyer, organizer and author before he turned politician. So his interest in science wasn’t as obvious until he reached the White House. Now, privately he’s known to relish the ability to call smart people, especially scientists, to come to the White House to talk about their fields. The more obscure and complicated the field, the better to feed the inner science geek.
Oh brother.
Obama “relishes the ablity to call smart people” to come talk about their fields.
That’s why the most frequent visitor to the White House is the SEIU’s Andy Stern, a radical socialist.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:41 am | #1
Yes and Obamas SH!T smells like rose petals.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:49 am | #2
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December 1st, 2009 | 9:53 am | #3
more hamlet than spock. and remember how hamlet turned out.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:53 am | #4
Uh, AP, if you’ve ever actually *watched* Star Trek, you know that Spock himself admitted he made an inferior commander.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:56 am | #5
I am a huge trekkie and I don’t see any Spock at all in Obama. Spock actually got his hands dirty to get stuff done.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:57 am | #6
It all depends on what you mean by “Mr. Spock”. Maybe Obama is Mr. Spock in some bizarro universe, but I’d wager dollars to donuts that Mr. Spock would never agree with the AGW hoax and he would never attend a conference on the subject after it was disclosed that all the raw data supposedly supporting such a radical and expensive economic redistribution project had been ‘accidentally destroyed’ because of a move. Obama is more like Spock’s relative an irrational type who went wandering the universe in search of utopia only to get nearly destroyed in the process.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:57 am | #7
“…feed the inner science geek.” seriously. seriously.
he’s a lawyer. he knows more about swindling than science.
December 1st, 2009 | 9:57 am | #8
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-obama-is-spock-then-palin-is-kirk.html
December 1st, 2009 | 10:06 am | #9
Mr. Spock made prompt decisions without reference to politics nor personal considerations.
Mr. Spock does not think that Austrians speak Austrian.
Mr. Spock does not think that there are 57 states.
Mr. Spock does not comment about police actions before getting all the facts.
Mr. Spock does not need a teleprompter.
Mr. Spock knows a lot more about Churchill than Obama does.
Mr. Spock is a science officer, Obama is a lawyer and a community organizer.
The only reason why there is any comparison between Mr. Spock and Mr. Obama is that they both have large, prominent ears.
What is glaringly obvious is the manifest difference of what is between them.
December 1st, 2009 | 10:07 am | #10
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December 1st, 2009 | 10:08 am | #11
What is more, Mr. Spock knows that he is not the best choice for captain of the Enterprise.
December 1st, 2009 | 10:14 am | #12
Keep in mind the people believing this kind of stuff bear to the left of Obama on the IQ bell curve. So naturally they see him as smart. He is smarter than they are. But just the fact that he operates from a communist worldview reveals him to be a high functioning idiot totally out of touch with the realities of history. I mean this guy sat in Rev Wright’s church for twenty years without a clue.
December 1st, 2009 | 10:45 am | #13
Jack,
You said it all.
December 1st, 2009 | 10:51 am | #14
Spock actually made decisions once in a while.
December 1st, 2009 | 10:54 am | #15
Spock was a Vulcan, he made decisions based on logic. Since he was also half human, he would most likely laugh his ass off at ideas Obama likes.
Obama is the black Carter, and not the good Carter (as in Samantha Carter) but rather the really, really, really, REALLY bad Carter (as in terrorist loving “JIMMEH!” Carter)
December 1st, 2009 | 11:06 am | #16
jack- 100% on the money!
December 1st, 2009 | 11:14 am | #17
The Pelosi-Obama-Reid regime as Star Trek!
Agreed that Spock was #2 to James T. Kirk, so Barry is to Spock as X is to Kirk. Solving for X, is Sarah Palin Kirk in this scenario? Seems that Barry was trying out for her part in the last election, anyway.
What Barry needs now is a good ol’ boy sidekick like Dr. McCoy to make him act more human.
And Hillary Clinton — is she nurse Chapel or just one of the blue aliens with fuzzy antenna?
To the energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy and beyond!
December 1st, 2009 | 11:22 am | #18
Bill Whittle also compared 0bama to Mr. Spock, just after Maureen Dowd made a similar comment:
http://www.pjtv.com/v/1995
December 1st, 2009 | 11:31 am | #19
The AP think that if they keep repeating the lie, it will be true. Sad for us it will not.
December 1st, 2009 | 11:39 am | #20
If only Obama had a team of writers to insure that everything he did turned out well, like Spock had. If only his “crew” also had writers to make sure they looked competent, efficient and wise. If only this was a made up story, like Star Trek.
December 1st, 2009 | 11:53 am | #21
Spock-no. A Romulan? Maybe.
If we are doing sci-fi references I think Obama is more like Emperor Palpatine.
December 1st, 2009 | 12:06 pm | #22
Related parody: Cerebral Obama Says “Path to Victory” in Afghanistan Lies Through Wormholes and an Infinite Number of Alternative Universes http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/12/cerebral-obama-says-path-to-victory-in.html
December 1st, 2009 | 12:24 pm | #23
Captain Kirk: You compare yourself to Spock? I knew Spock. Spock was a friend of mine. You sir are no Spock.
(more like Barney Fife)
December 1st, 2009 | 12:37 pm | #24
AP isn’t even being original. WaPo trotted out the Spock comparison in a dithering defense piece last week: http://tinyurl.com/yb7sen8
December 1st, 2009 | 12:52 pm | #25
++
via Glenn Beck
ObamACORN (aka: Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform
Now is changing their name again and going underground (like their
fellow Weathermen..)
==
December 1st, 2009 | 12:59 pm | #26
Actually, given his behavior and the people behind-the-scenes who seem to run things more than he does, I’d say Obama’s less like Spock and more like John Gill. (Plus Obama’s way less hairy than Spock was in that episode…)
December 1st, 2009 | 1:00 pm | #27
At the end of the day Kirk was the captain of the ship, spock was the “science” officer and rarely piloted the ship.
The few times that he was in command, the crew considered him weak because he took too long to decide the next course of action.
Obama would be more comparable to Uhura.
December 1st, 2009 | 1:16 pm | #28
The only similarity in an analysis of the fictitious character Spock and obamao is the size of their ears. Another similarity is both are really fictitious characters. Spock was created by a single writer. The obamao took an entire media working 24/7/365 to create and is a work still in progress.
December 1st, 2009 | 1:20 pm | #29
If Obama is Spock, then he must have mind-melded with Pelosi and has been permanently damaged.
December 1st, 2009 | 2:49 pm | #30
I see him as nothing but a food starving, overly reproductive Tribble myself.
Cute to so many at first, potentially very dangerous if allowed to multiply and cause starvation to others.
Oh, and his closest associate, a crook named Harry Mudd.
December 1st, 2009 | 2:58 pm | #31
The only similarities I see between Spock and Obama are the obnoxious ears and the internal struggle to gain human emotion.
December 1st, 2009 | 3:05 pm | #32
That “he’s so smart” meme is a little old (and proven wrong by his actions).
.
December 1st, 2009 | 3:50 pm | #33
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December 1st, 2009 | 3:52 pm | #34
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December 1st, 2009 | 3:59 pm | #35
Obama is more like Jar Jar Binks at first somewhat cute and likeable but after a few minutes you want to throw up at the idiocies spewing from his mouth.
December 1st, 2009 | 4:26 pm | #36
He is like Spock in that he doesn’t appear to actually feel anything, other than anger at anyone who opposes his Marxist agenda.
But in the latest Star Trek movie, Kirk had to kick his ass (by getting his ass kicked by Spock) in order to get him OUT of the commander’s position, and do what had to be done to save Earf.
Not that I’m the first to point this out, but that is the glaring difference between the two that makes the article utterly ridiculous.
December 1st, 2009 | 5:01 pm | #37
If Obama is like a Vulcan, it is Tuvok.
December 1st, 2009 | 6:20 pm | #38
obama is more like dr sevrin – the way to eden.
broadcasted in 69′ – ten years before the real
disaster that was jonestown.
dr sevrin leading a pack of idealistic youth to a
paradise that in reality was hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_to_Eden
December 1st, 2009 | 7:21 pm | #39
Now I understand: Barry is a character who has delivered fictitous results and when his character is more fully developed, even more fictitous greatness will follow.
December 1st, 2009 | 8:59 pm | #40
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