Is Obama another Mr. Spock?
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized
As a general Star Trek fan, I found this article fascinating and felt a strong need to pay it forward.
Mr. Spock, as any Trekkie knows, is awesome. Coldly unemotional, rigidly analytical. Logic comes naturally to him, science is his religion, and everything is just so damn “fascinating” to that pointy eared fellow.
Obama is, in many ways, akin to Mr. Spock. He’s clearly a big math and science nerd, even going so far as to announce a White House science fair as part of a $260 million dollar effort to boost science and math education in the U.S.
He’s also big on technology, a feature that’s probably put the fear of the devil into many ancient, crotchety old politicians on Capitol Hill. He’s calm, rational, deliberate in his action - and as the first article says, this is causing a stir in Washington. And not the good kind of stir either. The angry stir. The bad stir.
My take? After 8 years of being governed by arguably the dumbest U.S. president of all time (Ford wasn’t that bad!), it’s nice to see a smart man in office. A lawyer, an author, an organizer - he’s an intelligent, rational man and from those qualities usually comes intelligent, rational decisions. “Usually.”