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TOPIC: Leadership: If Barack Obama is Spock, Sarah Palin is Kirk (8-4-09 Big Hollywood)


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Leadership: If Barack Obama is Spock, Sarah Palin is Kirk
by Leigh Scott

If your an old school Trekkie, you'll love this article.

When Sarah Palin resigned a few weeks ago every blogger with a keyboard chimed in on it.  I didn’t want to be late in the game with a Sarah Palin blog, so I put this blog in the old hard drive of justice, right next to my Buffy the Vampire fan fiction and an un-produced screenplay about the Braves leaving Milwaukee.

Then I saw one of my childhood idols, Bill Shatner goofing on Sarah Palin.  At last, my geeked out political observation had new relevance!  Apple “C.” Apple “V.” Send to Big Hollywood.

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/08/palinkirk.jpg

We were treated to some really lame comparisons between Obama and Mr. Spock a few months back. Let’s ignore the obvious fact; that Mr. Spock is and always was the #2 guy. The Captain’s chair rightfully belonged to Kirk. Spock lacks the passion and empathy to be a leader. Trying to make a flattering comparison between the leader of the free world and a legendary sidekick seems like a non-starter.

No, let’s focus on the fact that Obama does not follow the Vulcan path. The path of logic. His demeanor may be calm, cool, and unemotional, but his thought process is driven by raw emotion. He represents decades of grievance education, America bashing, and misplaced empathy. There is nothing logical about the man. Exhibit A is the “stimulus plan.”
So with the whole Obama is Spock meme D.O.A. I went searching for another apt Sci-Fi/Politics metaphor.  Let’s see, George W. Bush is Luke Skywalker?  Cheney is Paul Atredies?  Donald Rumsfeld is Optimus Prime?  Joe Biden is a Tribble?

Then, as Sarah Palin announced her resignation, it hit me. Sarah Palin is Captain Kirk. Why? Because she just passed the Kobayashi Maru.

For those of you who don’t know what the Kobayashi Maru is, let me explain. In the Star Trek universe it is an unwinnable test. It’s creator, Mr. Spock, designed it to test how Starfleet captains deal with failure and death. There is no right way to successfully navigate through it.

But cadet James Tiberius Kirk found a way to beat it. He rigged the computer simulation to allow him to complete the mission without killing his crew. Starfleet accused him of cheating, but Kirk’s response was simple, eloquent, and very revealing. “I don’t believe in the no-win scenario. I don’t like to lose.” Kirk didn’t change the strategy. He changed the rules.

Since Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene she has been savaged. The media, the Left, the Right, the Middle, you name it. People either love her or hate her. In the media it seems people love to hate her. The “elites” on both sides of the aisle hate the populism she represents. Traditional feminists hate the fact that she has both a family and a career; something that their paradigm teaches is impossible. Her future rivals hate her because she isn’t a typical politician. Her authenticity makes Mike Huckabee look about as real as the Guinea Pigs in “G-Force”.

Palin was faced with her own Kobayashi Maru. How could she effectively govern the state of Alaska while facing ridiculous ethics charges and the scrutiny of the national media? How could she increase her exposure in the lower 48 while staying true to the people in Alaska who elected her? Perhaps if the wingnuts in Alaska didn’t stalk her with silly lawsuits she would have simply put her larger ambitions on the back burner and continued to do her job as governor. But it wasn’t meant to be. She was perfectly set up to fail.  Her popularity in Alaska would decline. The national media would point to it as an indicator of her overall effectiveness. The Klingons…I mean the left, would have won.

But Palin defied them. She changed not her strategy, but the very rules. She resigned her position, turning the state over to her loyal Lieutenant Governor to continue the plans and policies she put into motion. Like any good story, it was an unexpected twist, yet when viewed in retrospect it was the only way it could play out.

The notion that a candidate with scant command of policy, who either lacks experience or didn’t complete the duties of their elected position, is doomed to failure doesn’t take into account a little thing I call history. In 2008 this nation elected a President who spent the majority of his Senate term campaigning for his next gig. I only wish he had the class, respect, and decency for and towards his constituents to resign.  And while Palin may lack the depth of foreign policy knowledge, that say a Joe Biden has (yes, I just did that cough/laugh thing), she has a damned good grasp of energy policy. According to a lot of folks that energy thing is a big deal. Sarah Palin understands that people should have more freedoms. Government should be small.  Taxes should be low. I understand that too. Neither of us has a Doctorate in Economics. I think that’s a good thing.

For all his talk of being different, representing “hope,” and bringing “change” Obama has turned out to be quite the bore.  He is the consummate insider, a recycler of old ideas and failed policies. People wanted to beam up to the starship and explore strange new worlds. We wanted to boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before. Obama is in the wrong franchise. He and crazy Doc Brown, I mean Joe Biden, gassed up the DeLorean and took us back in time.  To 1976.

Palin passed the Kobayashi Maru. She is qualified to command the ship. She has all the qualities we want in a captain; valor, principals, vision and most of all, the ability to change the rules.

Will Palin be a candidate in 2012? Will she run for Senate? Will she be a third party spoiler? Who knows?  Maybe she should just enjoy the spoils that are the dividends of her hard work. People get paid millions of bucks because their coffee at McDonald’s is too hot, I think she’s entitled to a book deal and a TV show after having her entire family slandered by a bunch of elitist vampires. But something tells me she won’t just become the “White Oprah.” People like Kirk and Palin don’t retreat. They have an innate craving for responsibility and adventure as well as a desire to help their fellow man.

Go ahead.  Write her off. Make a joke out of her.  Be my guest. But that would be about as smart as marooning Captain Kirk on Seti Alpha V.

We all know how well that worked out for Khan don’t we?


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Bravo!!! Excellent article!!!!

I am old school trekkie and Kirk was never one to give in. He won every time by out-smarting his opponents.

I really love this article!

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This is such a great article! Breitbart has always been a fan of Sarah, but also a fair observer. He's not afraid of the truth and gives a fair view of current politics. I like him very much.

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I scared my dog while I was reading this. 

I read some, then exclaimed, "YEAH Captain Kirk...YEAH change the rules!"

I read some more, then exclaimed again, "YEAH I cough/laugh at Joe Biden too!"

Finally, the icing on the cake for my poor dog was, "Maybe I can get one of those bugs that crawl in the person's ear and make a obeying zombie out of someone in the Senate or House...oh wait, it has already been done to Joe Biden and the rest of the Democratic Liberal crew!"


My dog won't come out from under the dining room table.  Poor baby.  Star Trek analogies just get me going!  biggrin

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LOL: hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!!!

Everyone thought Mr. Spock was so cool but obviously too cool for the ladies.

Great comparison. Before I read that, I was actually comparing Hillary with Sarah.

Sarah had said in the campaign that she did not agree with everything that Hillary believed in or had said but she respected her.

Well, Hillary did not always believe everything that she does believe or say now. She started out as a Republican, switched to Democrat. She learned a lot about the Health Care issues by failing. Some of us remember that Trial and Error is Human and evolves us through solving Scientific problems... which are not logically mathematical.

Take for instance Biology vs. Chemistry. If Biology was mathematical like Chemistry, all Diseases would be cured by Chemical Equations. Solving Biological issues takes sensing and thinking and tedious trials with countless errors.

Sarah still has some black and white areas of reasoning but she often feels and senses her way through the issues. She articulates in parables like Jesus but that is because she is a religious minded person. She is coming from a base of human spirituality which often rings in emotional tones.

Poetry is the more ancient form of written language as is art. Human emotional realms are not simple logical statements. It took thousands of years for mathematical symbolism to evolve into communications that non-initiated lay people could comprehend.

I recall going to college. I was highly developed emotionally because I came from a large family tree. My grandparents could at least raise some of their own food because they grew up in farms. My family life was like a village. I had several aunts, great aunts, uncles and great uncles and cousins. Many kids my age lost their fathers in Vietnam. Many of my college friends had not extended families like me. I noticed that but it became clear to me that they had stunted emotional expressions. I grew up being forced to accept varieties of familial issues and deal with them. My college friends were often afraid or terrified to feel emotions. Many of them drank or smoked pot to escape emotions. In fact, I was always listening to them process their emotions. And, they often complained about how easy it was for me to communicate my feelings and emotions.

The way I am seeing Hillary and Sarah is that Hillary seems to be less emotional. It might even be that she does not show her emotions so much. But she does have passion. My partner and I felt that when she came to the Silicon Valley. She has plenty of real passion.

Sarah on the other hand found herself being thrown into the fire. The Republicans wanted a Virgin. She was as close to Virgin as you get because of her religious background. Yes, I know that our unofficial Hillary groups loved Sarah before she was chosen. But no one expected that the Republicans would love her. They did because she has that Christian quality that most Christians are aiming at emulating. Yet, oddly, she was nothing like the Old School Christian women. She was a Real Woman. That shocked America!

Back to Spock and Kirk.

My take: We got Dr. Spock the Long Legged Pimp Smooth Talkin' Shuga Daddy

vs. Kirk the Straight Talkin' Tell It Like I See It Christian Jock 

Of course in Sarah's case, She still wins over the Women--straight and gay--even though she is the Female Kirk doll. Somehow, I think mostly boys like Brock the Spock dolls.

Brock does not actually even qualify as a Spock doll because he is not Smart. So many of U.S. discovered that Brock does not speak from thinking thoughts. We noticed that he could not answer simple political questions during debates about issues he should have known about for several years.

Brock doll really needed a lot of handlers for him to get through the campaign. All that prop-a-ganda about him being a campaign politician is really bogus as we all know. Hillary treated the Brock doll with kid gloves. She did not take off the gloves soon enough. If Sarah was in Hillary's shoes, she would have came out of the ring punching from Idaho. Even at the Democratic Convention, Sarah could have toppled Brock Doll because she would not have stood down for him to rise and be the "Historic Martin Luther King, Jr. prophecy come true." She would see him as the Anti-Christ poser that Brock the doll is in truth.

Oh, and when I say Anti-Christ, I mean Anti-Messiah or Anti-Messenger. And, Sarah would see that about him because Faith is not the same as believing your pastor is a good man even when he preaching people to be racist.

Kirk had Faith. It was not Christian Faith. It was a Universal Faith. He had Faith that he was guided by a deeper meaning and by some power that led him from planet to planet. Spock believed in reasoning by logic. Logic requires knowing. The unknown cannot be calculated.

When Sarah speaks, I ask myself, "What is the deeper meaning that she is saying? What is she sensing that is so obvious that the public is missing?" When Brock speaks, I ask, "What is the agenda? Who is making money from that agenda?"



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