Leigh Scott has an answer to the "Obama is Spock" nonsense cooked up last May by Jeff Greenwald. Hey, we're Star geeks too, both of the "Trek" and "Wars" variety, so we're not exactly groping in the dark here.
This is metaphor madness. We just went off last night on a Wyle E. Coyote riff to explain the relationship between Sarah Palin and the Alaska hate bloggers in which they are the coyote to her roadrunner. Greenwald whould have us believe that Obama is some creature of logic. That metaphor gets about as far as the mixed heritage comparison (Spock was only half Vulcan, his mother being a scientist from planet Earth) and fails thereafter. Forms of socialism, economic fascism in particular, are not logical. Obama is no Spock.
Scott understands this:
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.”And he's spot on with Palin as Kirk:
Why? Because she just passed the Kobayashi Maru.But Commander Scott, you leave the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise virtually marooned in search of a true Star Trek personna for Obama. Ah, but the correct answer to the Obama identity, like the solution to the Kobayashi Maru test scenario, was right in front of you all the time.
Your fellow Breitbart.com contributor Chris Muir had that one figured out back in April, even before Greenwald ventured where no liberal has ever gone before. Obama is CAAAANNNN...
It's quite logical...
- JP
"If Obama is no Spock, then who is he?"
ReplyDeleteA tribble?