I AM OBAMA, YOU MUST OBEY ME!
Posted on 07/31/2009 7:00:17 AM PDT by 11th Commandment
In one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek, Captain Kirk is mistaken for a god by inhabitants of a planet of Native Americans (it’s a long story). The illusion works for Kirk until a jealous shaman cuts Kirk’s hand, revealing that the divine being is just a man after all. “Behold! A god who bleeds!” the shaman mocks, exposing Kirk as a fraud to the rest of the tribe.
It may sound like a stretch — and, let’s be fair, it is — but I keep thinking of that episode when I look Barack Obama’s poll numbers these days.
He’s bleeding on every front. The latest Pew survey shows that only 38 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, fewer than half of respondents (48 percent) say Obama can be trusted to keep his word. Gallup has his approval rating at a new low of 52 percent, and Rasmussen has it below 50 percent for the first time
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I AM OBAMA, YOU MUST OBEY ME!
My God not only bled, but even died for me.
A little boy has declared "The Emperor isn't wearing any clothes" and news of this revelation is now spreading through the assembled crowd.
Kirk still got the chick in that episode.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21zgn_who-mourns-for-adonais-3
That line (Behold, a god who bleeds!) has been running through my head from the very first time Obama stumbled, and it rings more and more often as the days go by.
The Emperor is neckkid and his dangle is not dingling much..
Goldberg is a good read when he gets his head out of his effete east coast circles.
As Rush observed shortly after the election, every statement Obama makes has an expiration date.
You are not the only one who had that thought looking at the headline!
Obama undoubtedly has major accomplishments ahead of him, but in a real way the Obama presidency is over. His messianic hopey-changiness has been exposed for what it was, and what it could only be: a rich cocktail of pie-eyed idealism, campaign sloganeering, and profound arrogance.
Outstanding, Mr. Goldberg.
Kirk always got the chick. I think it was in his contract somewhere.
Our God was defined by the fact that He bled and died, and that even death wasn't the end for Him -- or for us, too.
Same here!
As Polman rightly notes, this is crazy talk for the simple reason that Obama has nothing like LBJ’s experience, skill set, or treasure trove of chits and political IOUs. Obama can no more decide to become LBJ than Carrot Top can decide to become Laurence Olivier.
Perfect.
The chick in said episode was SMOKIN’ Hot as I remember.
I greatly admire how he made a respectable career for himself from his mother being involved in a scandal.
That's why Classic Trek remains the best. Kirk got the chicks, both human and not. He typically shot first, asked questions way later. And had the hottest-yet-unavailable yeoman in space history.
Picard, a student of U.N. methodology, was OK, but he preferred the sound of his own voice and would let his precious ship get hit 1,000 times before he fired back once at 1/4 power.
Still more on point:
Xerxes: There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories! Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian, and every scribe shall have their eyes pulled out, and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta, or Leonidas, will be punishable by death! The world will never know you existed at all!
King Leonidas: The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed.
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Dilios: The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw: Hubris. Easy to taunt, easy to trick. Before wounds and weariness have taken their toll, the mad king throws the best he has at us. Xerxes has taken the bait.
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