Obama = Spock?
A bunch of new editorials, including one in the NYT, are saying that Spock is a precursor or some kind of analogy for Obama.
Please.
Ok Maureen Dowd wrote one of them, which pretty much automatically puts in in this shit pile. You can read it here and it is pretty much one of the most illogical, mishmashy, poorly written articles every to be published, also DONT READ IT IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE (dont say you weren't warned). She tries to say 1,000 things at once and manages to say nothing but impress a general feeling on the reader that Obama is a great and logical leader... who likes newspapers... and newspapers are threatened... ok it does not make a damn bit of sense.
But still, if there is one thing that defines Obama it is not logic and reason. Literary and movie criticism has made some large leaps of logic before, but to claim that there is some connection between Spock and Obama? I would have thought that only art-history professors took those kinds of magical bounds.
Seriously, I think there is more of a similarity between Chewbacca and Obama than him and Spock. Chewy has broad appeal across ethinic and national lines and has a way of delivering lines which really bring out emotion. Spock and Obama? They share somewhat similar facial features, and that is about it.
Please.
Ok Maureen Dowd wrote one of them, which pretty much automatically puts in in this shit pile. You can read it here and it is pretty much one of the most illogical, mishmashy, poorly written articles every to be published, also DONT READ IT IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE (dont say you weren't warned). She tries to say 1,000 things at once and manages to say nothing but impress a general feeling on the reader that Obama is a great and logical leader... who likes newspapers... and newspapers are threatened... ok it does not make a damn bit of sense.
But still, if there is one thing that defines Obama it is not logic and reason. Literary and movie criticism has made some large leaps of logic before, but to claim that there is some connection between Spock and Obama? I would have thought that only art-history professors took those kinds of magical bounds.
Seriously, I think there is more of a similarity between Chewbacca and Obama than him and Spock. Chewy has broad appeal across ethinic and national lines and has a way of delivering lines which really bring out emotion. Spock and Obama? They share somewhat similar facial features, and that is about it.
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