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I Don’t Love Spock
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 6, 2015 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 03/07/2015 10:05:16 AM PST by EveningStar

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To: demshateGod

No but like porn I don’t need a definition to know it when I see it. The words he uses most by far are “me, I and my”


41 posted on 03/07/2015 11:15:27 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: EveningStar

The instrument has yet been invented to measure my absolute lack of giving a flying rat’s ass what Obama thinks about a character who inspired thousands (Maybe even millions) of people to reach for the stars via the space program and the word processor and/or devoting themselves to furthering the sciences to get us there.


42 posted on 03/07/2015 11:20:06 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: EveningStar
you're thinking the revamped Spock

The original Spock as Gene Roddenberry wrote was the epitome of a conservative. Gene Roddenberry was ex LAPD and Spock character is based on LAPD Chief Parker a conservative in the Thomas Dewey mold

While Roddenberry himself was a liberal of the time he admire the conservative Parker logic and absolute integrity but also saw him as sometimes cold blooded and a bit of a tight ass .....you see this in Spock in the first two years of the original series.

Spock was originally written as a WASP/ William F Buckley like conservative...Spock was a more ambivalent character in the writing early on.. and portrayed as having a repressed nature..as do all Vulcans

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43 posted on 03/07/2015 11:21:18 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Leaning Right
You know, you're right. If a new planet were discovered, Obama would make a statement. He'd reference himself maybe 100 times and the name of the new planet maybe once.

Well not exactly. After all, he'd name it after himself...

44 posted on 03/07/2015 11:25:05 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Get a life, will you people!”


45 posted on 03/07/2015 11:26:03 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Gaffer

Wow! That doctor explains Obama completely.


46 posted on 03/07/2015 11:30:00 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: EveningStar
How much of a comic character is Spock?

Ted Baxter, Frazier Crane, all of the Seinfeld and Friends gang and (I assume) most of the How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory characters were jerks, yet a lot of the country loved them.

Say what you will about Spock, you could always laugh at his attitudes. In contrast to Alan Alda's Hawkeye, say, you weren't expected to take Spock's views seriously.

Continetti's comparison of Spock and Obama shows some insight. There is something odd and off-kilter about both the Vulcan and the Kenyan. But note that a similar comparison circulated during a previous administration.

47 posted on 03/07/2015 11:35:39 AM PST by x
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To: x
In contrast to Alan Alda's Hawkeye,

You would have to remind me. That arrogant smarmy preachy hypocrite seared my brain for years.

48 posted on 03/07/2015 11:41:27 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: EveningStar

I’d bet 0bama wouldn’t know a Tribble from a toenail. And if his ‘wife’ wasn’t a Wookiee, he wouldn’t know anything of Star Wars, either... He’ s just a bandwagon-jumper sniffing up a little camera time.


49 posted on 03/07/2015 11:41:37 AM PST by W. (Have you noticed how all left-wing politics are based on voter gullibility?)
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To: tophat9000

Good post. I never knew that.

BTW, wasn’t WFB Catholic?


50 posted on 03/07/2015 11:54:04 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Spock was scrupulously information and logic based in his actions.

That means he was no liberal!


51 posted on 03/07/2015 12:13:38 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: EveningStar
I cannot see Obama putting the needs of others before his own desires,nor could I see him using rational thought, rather than emotion to respond to a situation. If I were to compare him to a character on Star Trek, it would be to Trelane, the omnipotent spoiled brat.

52 posted on 03/07/2015 12:17:34 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: exDemMom
I can’t actually think of a character from the series that has Obama’s narcissism and bends everything to a political purpose.

Maybe Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but he is about eight times smarter than Obama. :)

53 posted on 03/07/2015 12:19:12 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: tophat9000
Spock was originally written as a WASP/ William F Buckley like conservative

"Herbert!"

Regards,

54 posted on 03/07/2015 12:24:26 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: freedomlover

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, obama is the least human.


55 posted on 03/07/2015 12:27:05 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: EveningStar

Saw about 10 minutes of Startreck when it first came out and never looked at again, it was the most childish hokey thing I ever looked at.


56 posted on 03/07/2015 12:28:51 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Maybe Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but he is about eight times smarter than Obama. :)

Ah, I couldn't stand Star Trek: TNG. It was steeped in political correctness, with too many of the plots either pushing some liberal pipe-dream or portraying the realization of some liberal fear-monger tactic. Often, the situations that came straight out of liberal fantasizing made no logical sense. For instance, there was an episode where a planet was dying, and the people living there wanted to make some sort of memorial in case anyone ever came by... but the situation that caused the planet to be dying was never explained adequately, and what little info there was made no sense. And Picard was so annoying--I just wanted to yell at him "Grow a pair!" (CAPT Janeway was far more manly!)

That was the only series out of the franchise that I actively disliked.

57 posted on 03/07/2015 12:32:46 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Mad Dawgg
The instrument has yet been invented to measure my absolute lack of giving a flying rat’s ass what Obama thinks about a character who inspired thousands (Maybe even millions) of people to reach for the stars via the space program and the word processor and/or devoting themselves to furthering the sciences to get us there.

Indeed. It is quite possible that seeing Spock in action when I was just six years old, and being so impressed by his absolutely logical (intelligent) thinking process set me on the road to eventually get a PhD and work to increase the knowledge of the human race. He was always my hero!

58 posted on 03/07/2015 12:38:32 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Organic Panic

Great point.


59 posted on 03/07/2015 12:39:18 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: EveningStar

Fascinating.


60 posted on 03/07/2015 1:34:09 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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