Obama Is a Stranger in a Strange Land

American Thinker ^ | March 17, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley

[wastedyears]

Somebody said stranger in a strange land...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypaHj51rDNM

[PizzaDriver]

Heinlein readers can’t agree to THAT!!!

[jessduntno]

He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.

Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man please listen,
You don’t know what you’re missing,
Nowhere Man,the world is at your command!

(lead guitar)

He’s as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?

Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
Take your time, don’t hurry,
Leave it all till somebody else
lends you a hand!

Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere Man please listen,
you don’t know what you’re missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!

[PizzaDriver]

Heinlein readers can’t agree to THAT!!!

[Dark Knight]

Poor essay, Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic science fiction novel by Heinlein. The main character had a stronger perspective on reality than most of those who would have dismissed him.

The author should have used a phrase that was not the title of this book. It would have worked better.

DK

[lmr]

This is incredible. One is almost inside of Obama’s head after reading this...

[Yardstick]

Wow, she’s got Obama pegged.

[Allegra]

I cannot grok this.

[OHelix]

“Well, it doesn’t say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken. Good Sabbath!”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Poor Bummer.

He was, to the appearances I can see, brought up such that he would be a tool of the communist left. There’s a haunting story suggesting that he was known about in Russia by communists who were colluding with others here in grooming him for an eventual run at the US presidency. The scarcity of his life records suggests a concerted effort to have them cleaned up. Of course those who groomed him or sheared his past away cared nothing about what that was doing to his soul, or would do to countless others. It was a mad obsession, communism uber alles.

[neverdem]

Poor essay, Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic science fiction novel by Heinlein. The main character had a stronger perspective on reality than most of those who would have dismissed him.

The author should have used a phrase that was not the title of this book. It would have worked better.

The author may not have picked the title. Someone at American Thinker might do the honors. That's what happens with syndicated columns.

Personaly, I avoid science fiction like the plague. I'll take real science, thank you. It has more than enough mystery, IMHO.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even though you're definitely not a science fiction aficionado, have you ever read The Space Child's Mother Goose? It is a collection of futuristic children's level poetry from the 50's. The lines about Taffy's little grandson committing telepillage, and teleplundering beef, actually foresaw the issue of internet fraud decades before there was an internet.

[shibumi]

I don't grok the use of Heinlein's title, or the use of Morrison's poetry which (in this case) had nothing to do with politics.

The essay is a malaprop.

[TheThinker]

The author states Obama has no empathy or conscience, suffering from a kind of detachment syndrome. I think the one thing he did attach to is his faith in Islam and the utility of communism to control others to fulfill his ends.

[Dark Knight]

But those of us paying attention know one thing loud and clear: A Stranger in a Strange Land does not belong in the White House.

A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley.<<

I almost agreed, until I reread the essay. The phrase was chosen after the author used it to close the essay. The title was appropriate to the essay, the essay was not appropriate to either the title or the historical context of the book it took title from.

Besides, the main character was very different but highly functional, not dysfunctional and bizarre.

I am but an egg, though.

DK

[Semper Mark]

"But those of us paying attention know one thing loud and clear: A Stranger in a Strange Land does not belong in the White House."

Absolutely correct.

Obama is a red diaper vagabond, raised by a brood of perverted and dysfunctional Marxist grifters. It is quite evident that he totally bought into the Communist philosophy that he was exposed to by these vipers during his formative years.

Obama has no business residing within the boarders of this nation, much less at 1600, Pennsylvania Ave..

[neverdem]

Even though you're definitely not a science fiction aficionado, have you ever read The Space Child's Mother Goose? It is a collection of futuristic children's level poetry from the 50's. The lines about Taffy's little grandson committing telepillage, and teleplundering beef, actually foresaw the issue of internet fraud decades before there was an internet.

Any new technology is a double edged sword. Sci-fi has its worth when properly hypothesized as in national security. We have enemies. Possible surprise attacks should be considered.

[homegroan]

I am the Walrus...coo-coo-ca-chu

[Logophile]

Poor essay, Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic science fiction novel by Heinlein. The main character had a stronger perspective on reality than most of those who would have dismissed him. The author should have used a phrase that was not the title of this book. It would have worked better.

Yes, it is the title of the famous Heinlein novel. However, Heinlein got it from Exodus 2:22 in the Old Testament.