Is Obama Spock with a makeover?

[man4allcats]

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Excerpt of "Salon" article by Jeff Greenwald as cited in 3 Quarks Daily:

Anyone who followed the early "Star Trek" with regularity knows how charismatic Spock was. If there were two characters I wanted to be as a young man, they were Spock -- and James Bond. Both displayed total self-confidence, and amazing problem-solving skills. Both traveled to exotic destinations, and were irresistible to women. And both shared a quality that my generation lacked completely: composure.

While Bond had his weaknesses (anything in a bikini), Spock was virtually unflappable. The most startling marvels in the cosmos were "fascinating." Disasters were "unfortunate," perhaps even "tragic." The raised eyebrow, the lifted chin, the vaguely sarcastic mien -- these were coins of the realm to my pubescent friends. How did we weather the terrors of grade school, and survive the irrational outbursts of parents and teachers? By invoking Spock. Who served as our logical, enlightened counterpoint to the madness of the late 1960s? Who else but Spock?

"I am a first-generation 'Star Trek' fan, and I've long argued that many of my deepest political convictions emerged from my experience of watching the program as a young man growing up in Atlanta during the civil rights era," declares Henry Jenkins, co-director of the MIT comparative media studies program and author of "Convergence Culture." "In many ways, my commitment to social justice was shaped in reality by Martin Luther King and in fantasy by 'Star Trek.'”

Obama, Jenkins points out, positioned himself in the primaries as a man "at home with both blacks and whites, someone whose mixed racial background has forced him to become a cultural translator." In this sense Obama even surpasses Spock, whose struggle to reconcile his half-human, half-Vulcan genes is a continual source of inner conflict.

[STOP_BS]

1. COOL!!!!!!

FUNNY AND COOL

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Of course. It is all part of an alien conspiracy to take over the planet.

:evilgrin:

[Patiod]

3. AND he sounds EXACTLY like Tovak

It drove me crazy until I realized who it was that he sounds exactly like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ubg2lNWhH8

[DinahMoeHum]

4. In terms of looks, Obama looks more like Tuvok. . .(Star Trek: Voyager)

and sounds more like Tuvok, to boot.

But in terms of heritage and bloodlines, yes, Obama IS more like Spock.

[HamdenRice]

5. How DARE you?!?!

Never mind.

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