[grania]

In the original Star Trek, the crew of the Enterprise and other starships were to explore the galaxy but not interfere with cultures and civilizations they encountered. They often ignored their prime directive and bad things happened.

Just sayin'....

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, I remember the Prime Directive, was not to interfere with the development of other cultures.

But, Kirk and the gang did some interfering, but, always with the best of intentions.

Sounds a bit like liberalism to me. Work with me here. Liberals are all about helping the downtrodden, saving the planet, etc. and at least in theory, have some great intentions for what they want to do. But in the real world, liberalism doesn’t work as planned.

Off topic, but I watched a bit of MSNBC recently, and their talking heads lamented that Obama wasn’t able to accomplish more, that in some ways he wasn’t liberal enough for them.

Obama came into office being the dream of liberals who admired the liberal president on the TV show “The West Wing”.

The real world of politics is messier than the TV world of politics. Liberals who thought the Obama presidency would go like the presidency of Martin Sheen on TV of course would be severely disappointed in Obama.