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Maureen Dowd: Put Aside Logic (Obama as Spock)
The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2009 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 05/11/2009 3:24:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Final Frontier

I dreamed that Spock saved our planet, The Daily Planet of journalism.

Instead of swooping in to figure out the dimensionality and logarithms to rescue the world from red matter, as Spock does in J. J. Abrams’s dazzling new “Star Trek,” I imagined Spock rescuing read matter for the world.

Newspapers are an “endangered species,” as John Kerry called us in a Senate hearing last week, just as the Vulcans are in the new prequel.

I know Barack Spock likes newspapers. An aide told me during the campaign that Mr. Obama would get cranky if he didn’t have some time set aside during the day to read The New York Times.

And it was clear from his very first news conference, when I began covering his long-shot bid for the White House and he began referring to stories he had read in The Times, that Mr. Obama’s supple mind was nourished by news and books. You knew he would never inspire alarm as W. did, that if Condi walked too far away or his notes blew off the lectern, he’d be utterly lost.

Once, during his campaign trip to Europe, Mr. Obama told me that he had briefly sold subscriptions to The New York Times when he was at Columbia University to help pay for school, but confessed he wasn’t very good at it.

I said that if he won the presidency, he’d be pretty busy, but that maybe he could find time to sell a few more subscriptions. It would really help us out in the current business crunch.

He gave me that wry Spock look.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
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Oh Brother!!
1 posted on 05/11/2009 3:24:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dr. Spock maybe!


2 posted on 05/11/2009 3:25:54 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More like a tribble. Except tribbles were smarter since they didn’t like Klingons (democrats).


4 posted on 05/11/2009 3:27:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rules!


5 posted on 05/11/2009 3:27:22 PM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: JackRyanCIA

Maureen has had a vision about the future of the Gotham paper.


6 posted on 05/11/2009 3:28:56 PM PDT by sitkaspruce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
....Barack Spock.....

Snort!

7 posted on 05/11/2009 3:29:17 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dowd is confusing the fictional character created by Gene Roddenberry with the fictional character created by George Soros.


8 posted on 05/11/2009 3:30:21 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: spodefly

Well now that I think about it they both do have something in common Spock is an alien from Vulcan and Obama is an illegal alien from Kenya!


9 posted on 05/11/2009 3:32:25 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: GQuagmire

Wow. 10 posts and no KZJ pics.


10 posted on 05/11/2009 3:33:36 PM PDT by SeanOGuano
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You knew he would never inspire alarm as W. did, that if Condi walked too far away or his notes blew off the lectern, he’d be utterly lost.

THIS IS TOO FUNNY!! Bimbo is lost when his teleprompter stops or goes down. This woman is delusional.


11 posted on 05/11/2009 3:33:57 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mr. Obama . . . . had briefly sold subscriptions to The New York Times when he was at Columbia University to help pay for school, but confessed he wasn’t very good at it

Can't hawk newspapers, but eminently qualified as C-in-C...

12 posted on 05/11/2009 3:34:41 PM PDT by mikrofon (Illogical)
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To: Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi

It's about time for a sequel to The Wrath of Farrakhan.


"Spock! Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"

13 posted on 05/11/2009 3:35:14 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: spodefly

Great line.

Here I was wondering if MoDo has finally found a boyfriend who stays more than one night.


14 posted on 05/11/2009 3:35:20 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: SeanOGuano
I'll do it myself...



15 posted on 05/11/2009 3:36:29 PM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mr. Spock would NOT be amused.
16 posted on 05/11/2009 3:41:22 PM PDT by unkus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t see him as Spock, but I can see him as “Syler” from the “Heroes” TV series.

A sociopath that goes around lobotomizing the opposition and stealing their powers...


17 posted on 05/11/2009 3:43:40 PM PDT by PsyOp (Put government in charge of tire pressure, and we'll soon have a shortage of air. - PsyOp.)
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18 posted on 05/11/2009 3:52:12 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry. I saw this movie, and in it, Spock gets the hot black chic. No comparison to real life.


19 posted on 05/11/2009 4:12:17 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like Mo had too much to drink again.

20 posted on 05/11/2009 4:12:41 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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