Obama Theatre
A friend of mine, after reviewing the President's nuclear strategy, sent me this playlet:
Theme Music...Enterprise fly-by in the background.
Sulu: Captain Obama, there's a Klingon warship ahead.
Capt. Obama: Slow to stop. Lower our deflector shields.
Sulu: Did you say lower? But Captain Bush would.....
Capt. Obama: Forget about Captain Bush. Things have changed. Have hope. Yes, I want the Klingons to know we come in peace, without aggression. Lt. Uhura, open a communications channel.
Uhura: There's no response Captain.
Capt. Obama: Send this anyway. We will not use photon torpedoes if they agree to do the same. They can attack us with phasers and we won't respond with torpedoes.
Spock: Highly illogical Captain.
Uhura: Still no response Captain.
Capt. Obama: Tell them we will withdraw from the Zion solar system if they give up their torpedoes.
Spock: May I remind you that the Zionists are our only friends in the region.
Capt. Obama: That friendship has made the Klingons our enemy. But if we switch sides and help the Klingons to join the Federation....
Sulu: Captain! The Klingons have just launched a massive torpedo attack!
Capt. Obama: They don't mean it. No evasive action. Keep those shields down.
The Enterprise is hit and explodes. All hands are killed.
Theme Music...wreckage of the Enterprise floating in space in the background.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
5 Comments:
Hate speech. You and your little friend will be investigated.
Did you listen to NPR this morning? They're spending a week exploring distrust in government. All the questions were "is it just that the Republicans have defined the issues" and "maybe when the see the bill they'll like it". When they got to "Beck's audience is nothing like Father Coughlin's" I had to give it up.
I wonder if it's all part of Cass's plan to build trust in government? At least we have Postrel to throw back at him.
I'm sure there was an episode of Star Trek TNG where Captain Piccard employed a strategy of keeping his shields down even when prudence argued for raising shilds. It worked out for Piccard.
SO....
Bush = Kirk
Obama = Piccard
Does that make:
Hillary = Janeway? - They both are lost out there wandering a distant quadrant.
Let's not forget by the time of Picard the Klingons had joined the Federation. (My friend is a fan of the original series only.) In fact, the changes in the outlook of Kirk and Picard pretty clearly show the changes in the liberal viewpoint through the years. Kirk is from the era of virile liberalism, where the West goes out beyond its borders and helps people become free. Picard comes from an age of multiculturalism where every tradition is as good as our own.
True, but Picard also exemplifies the patronizing aspect of multiculturalism. Each week, he travels to a new planet, learns to appreciate its culture, and magnanimously engages the rulers of that planet on their own terms.
Note, however, that it is never suggested that the denizens of these planets might possibly learn about Federation culture and engage it on its own terms. Nor does Picard think they should. Deep inside he is convinced that they are not capable of such mind-stretching calisthenics.
His forebears in our time grew up reading National Geographic and listening to NPR. They enjoyed looking at beautiful color photos of natives in Africa, of Hasidic Jews in New York, of farm folk in Mississippi, and were fascinated by the people in the Middle East who were motivated by ancient religions. Being truly benevolent, they now want to ensure that the government helps all these charming people to deal with the tribulations of their mean lives.
"Political tags--such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth--are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they make better neighbors than the other sort." - Robert A. Heinlein
Of course, by "torpedoes" we mean "things we call torpedoes" rather than "things that will kill you."
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