Posted on 08/04/2009 6:50:50 AM PDT by Al B.
When Sarah Palin resigned a few weeks ago every blogger with a keyboard chimed in on it. I didn’t want to be late in the game with a Sarah Palin blog, so I put this blog in the old hard drive of justice, right next to my Buffy the Vampire fan fiction and an un-produced screenplay about the Braves leaving Milwaukee.
Then I saw one of my childhood idols, Bill Shatner goofing on Sarah Palin. At last, my geeked out political observation had new relevance! Apple “C.” Apple “V.” Send to Big Hollywood.
We were treated to some really lame comparisons between Obama and Mr. Spock a few months back. Let’s ignore the obvious fact; that Mr. Spock is and always was the #2 guy. The Captain’s chair rightfully belonged to Kirk. Spock lacks the passion and empathy to be a leader. Trying to make a flattering comparison between the leader of the free world and a legendary sidekick seems like a non-starter.
No, let’s focus on the fact that Obama does not follow the Vulcan path. The path of logic. His demeanor may be calm, cool, and unemotional, but his thought process is driven by raw emotion. He represents decades of grievance education, America bashing, and misplaced empathy. There is nothing logical about the man. Exhibit A is the “stimulus plan.”
So with the whole Obama is Spock meme D.O.A. I went searching for another apt Sci-Fi/Politics metaphor. Let’s see, George W. Bush is Luke Skywalker? Cheney is Paul Atredies? Donald Rumsfeld is Optimus Prime? Joe Biden is a Tribble?
Then, as Sarah Palin announced her resignation, it hit me. Sarah Palin is Captain Kirk. Why? Because she just passed the Kobayashi Maru.
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0bama is not Spock. He’s more like Jar Jar Binks.
I think the comparison is an insult to the Spock character! :)
Obama is Mr. Spock without the intelligence. Obama is a pure idealogical animal.
>>Joe Biden is a Tribble?<<
He isn’t that lovable. He is a Alverian dung beetle.
If you have seen that terrible movie, you know Biden is the new Scotty.
0bama is not Spock. He’s more like Jar Jar Binks. .......................... U R The Winner!!!
The best defense is a strong offense,
and I intend to start offending right now.
- Capt. James T. Kirk
0bamster is more like a trible, consuming every free-market dollar for the government to control that was once available to us as capitalists.
Was there a "puppet" character on Star Trek? The tribbles, maybe?
Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
An Armed Man Is A Citizen
An Unarmed Man Is A Subject
WHO AM I?
* I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.
* I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.
* Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
* My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.
* I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn’t follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.
* I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.
* That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.
* I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
* I became active in local politics in my 30’s then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit.
* I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.
* I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.. This bolstered my ego.
* At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.
* But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.
* I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.
* I called mine “A People’s Campaign” and that sounded good to all people.
* I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.
* I knew that, if I merely offered the people ‘hope’ , together we could change our country and the world.
* So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include “persecuted minorities” like the Jews. My true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation’s leader.
* I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.
* I’m glad they didn’t. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth.
*Who am I? *
ADOLF HITLER
WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?
Scary isn’t it?
Balok used a susan estrich-esque puppet.
That’s perfect, now can you add the joker make-up?
Sulu.
Definitely Sulu.
too funny.
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