Star Trek Is a Move “For The Obama Age”?

• May 13, 2009

A reader emails this Slate review of the latest Star Trek movie, noting this starry-eyed passage:

It’s a blockbuster for the Obama age, when smarts and idealism are cool again. In fact, can’t you picture our president—levelheaded, biracial, implacably smart—on the bridge in a blue shirt and pointy ears?

I haven’t seen the movie yet so can’t speak for the movie’s “blockbuster” status (the reader who emailed me this review said he saw it and that it’s very good), but what’s with “smarts and idealism” being “cool again”?
Were smarts and idealism not cool under President Bush?
I know the idea that President Bush is stupid is now dogma on the left, but what’s so smart about Obama? What has he ever done? He’s a fantastic political campaigner, to be sure, but since coming into office he’s ran up gigantic deficits. His solutions for those deficits seem more predicated on accounting tricks and blaming other people than any sound policy maneuvering. His escapades with his teleprompter are bordering on becoming more hilarious than Bush’s public speaking blunders, and Obama’s administration has been overwhelmed by happenings as simple as state visits by friendly foreign dignitaries.
So…what’s so smart about Obama?
As for idealism, this reviewer apparently thinks the only valid sort of idealism is liberal idealism. Conservative idealism is just for hateful haters like Rush Limbaugh and the domestic terrorists who attend tea parties, apparently.
Regardless, this is just another episode of run-away Obama worship. If only these people were capable of seeing that they’re bordering on self-parody.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Entertainment, Politics

http://Array Drake8

Obama? Spock?

It’s more like: Chance the Gardener.

And the press says, “Chauncy Gardener.”
http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

but what’s so smart about Obama?

Giving a kid with asthma a breathalyzer sounds genius to me! You don’t want kids with asthma becoming alcoholics.
Buzz

but what’s so smart about Obama?

Maybe the Constitutional law professor thing?
http://www.fileitunder.com/ Hoodlumman

I saw the new Star Trek and at no time did Spock nor Kirk, when they were captains, need a teleprompter when speaking to others.
Wing Chun Geologist

Maybe the Constitutional law professor thing?

Actually (1) Obama’s position was lecturer, which is quite a bit lower in status than professor. He never advanced as high as associate professor, much less professor.

Actually (2) Obama lectured in civil rights law, which is hardly constitutional law. I remember reading about a course called Psychology of Athletes, a course designed for PE majors to fill a social science requirement. I figure Civil Rights Law is to Law what Psychology of Athletes is to Psychology.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

So was the 2008 election comparable to a Kobayashi Maru test?
http://dougeefargo.blogspot.com/ dougee

Were smarts and idealism not cool under President Bush?

I think The Dark Knight in the Bush era is better.
FlybyKnight

Whistler,

I think it’s more like the Khitomer Massacre.

(Wow, I’m in a “nerdy Star Trek references” contest. Time to find a hobby)
SigFan

Go take a look at this cartoon over a Townhall.com Kind of says it all.

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez/2009/05/5
Mickey

Buzz,

If you do union work as well as you research Obama then this would explain why scabs take your jobs.
robert108

Actually, Kirk disses negotiation and diplomacy, in favor of going for the win. Very “George Bush”.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I think The Dark Knight in the Bush era is better.
SigFan

I’d like to see some evidence that Obama has a clue what the constitution is about.

He does know – he knows that it’s an obstacle to doing whatever he damn well pleases and he is determined to negate it in any way he can.
Mickey
Mickey

Ya gotta love how well cartoonists have accepted obama. He must of passed Bush by now.
Bat One

Maybe the Constitutional law professor thing?

Sorry, Buzz. Obama was never a professor of anything. He was a part-time ConLaw lecturer, a job almost certainly obtained for him by Thomas G. Ayers, Chicago insider and father of unrepentant terrorist-bomber and Obama mentor, Bill Ayers.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

I’d like to see some evidence that Obama has a clue what the constitution is about.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Just more orgasmic gushing from the press over their Teletubby Prez.

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