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This is probably one of the most ridiculous examples of Obama Derangement Syndrome I’ve seen so far. Shortly after Lenoard Nimoy – the Geek Grandpa – passed, President Obama released a statement acknowledging his death. In the statement, Obama said he “Loved Spock,” and noted that he was “Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of…
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
fredoandme March 7th, 2015 at 8:17 am
was this dipwad watching the same show and movies the rest of us watched?
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 9:41 am
Watching anything through conservative lenses distorts it to an unrecognizable mass of idiocy and hate.
fredoandme March 7th, 2015 at 10:04 am
star trek is one of the most optimistic pieces of futuristic space junk in existence. that’s a major reason I’m a fan.
he’s a glass half empty guy. expects failure and bad times, won’t do much to stop it. lazy enough to stand by and watch and complain incessantly. stand around and suck good air.
we should all shun him.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 8:29 am
This is so funny, I’ve lost track of the number of times in Obama’s 1st six years that my criticisms of him to my fellow liberals has been “we needed Kirk, we got Spock.”
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 8:59 am
Really?
I never thought we needed Kirk.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 10:12 am
What we needed was someone who sees his enemies for what they really are instead of always trying to play at being the adult in the room.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 10:18 am
Make up your mind. Is Obama a street-brawling Chicago gangster (“A Piece of the Action”) or is he too cool and logical?
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Someone doesn’t know what Chicago-machine politics means – it has nothing to do with gangsters and everything to do with how someone like Rahm Emanuel (who has nothing but disdain for the people who vote for him.) can end up as mayor.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 1:16 pm
So you’re saying that Obama disdains the people who voted for him??? I don’t get that at all.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Last time I looked – Obama and Emanuel wore different pants – maybe you should stop making connections that aren’t there.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 4:23 pm
You said that Obama represented “Chicago-machine politics”. Then you gave Rahm Emmanuel’s supposed “disdain” of the electorate as an example of Chicago-machine politics. It’s not hard to make the connection.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 4:33 pm
You inferred that a man who hires a snake to be his chief of staff is also a snake; I implied no such thing.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 10:25 am
That’s what we got.
What we don’t need is a lot of empty chest thumping rhetoric.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 10:29 am
That’s what we got now, six years too late.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 10:57 am
I could not disagree more.
That’s what we HAD 14 ago and it was a disaster.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 11:10 am
14 years ago we had “someone who sees his enemies for what they really are instead of always trying to play at being the adult in the room.”??? WTF?
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 11:25 am
14 years ago we had someone who gave up the “war on terrorism” to pursue a pre- 2000 plan to take over Iraq.
14 years ago we had someone who did not even know Shia from Sunni and did not have to guts to stand up to the woefully misguided PNAC.
Now we have a president who has gotten the Arabs and the Persians to begin to fight their own battles for a change.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:09 pm
When does that start? I’m all for it.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 12:14 pm
It started in 2001 with the 1999 plan to invade Iraq.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:18 pm
So invading Iraq was “getting the Arabs and the Persians to begin to fight their own battles for a change.” …wow…
Whatever you say.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 12:25 pm
What are you talking about???
That is what Obama has accomplished.
Invading Iraq threw the region into chaos, as predicted.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Chaos = “Arabs and the Persians” fighting their own battles for a change; just like they used to do before the U.S. helped install the lid that finally came off when we decided to go back for “our” oil.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:42 pm
I wouldn’t mind Obama stopping empty chest thumping rhetoric, either. Unfortunately empty chest thumping rhetoric, in other words, is American foreign policy – until we start dropping things that go boom on brown people. Then it’s not so empty.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 12:50 pm
That’s easy to say.
There is a reason why the American families of those brown people prefer Obama.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 2:49 pm
But, we got W’s third term along with it.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 2:52 pm
No we didn’t.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Um…yes we did.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 3:28 pm
I guess that is that, then.
there is nothing left to say when people don’t agree on the facts.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 3:51 pm
No, you’re right.
We closed Git-mo, the Patriot Act went bye-bye, all our ‘black sites’ are gone; it’s almost like there are completely different people in charge. Like night and day – “morning in America”, if you will.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 4:31 pm
We closed Git-mo
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Obama has done his part.
the Patriot Act went bye-bye,
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Do you REALLY think that after Congress renewed it again and again that Obama would have remained in office if he had vetoed it?
all our ‘black sites’ are gone;
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He did order them closed.
But get back to me when the American people don’t scare so easily.
Meanwhile, I’ll take Obama any day over his critics who are the same or worse.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 4:43 pm
I don’t even know what “Obama has done his part.” even means – “status quo Obama” could and should have done much more; even if the only tool open to him was the “bully pulpit”. His biggest mistake was using Bill Clinton as a model.
If you think criticizing Obama is the same as preferring the opposition – you are sadly mistaken.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 4:50 pm
I don’t even know what “Obama has done his part.” even means
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The only thing holding it up is Congress’s funding the closing.
– “status quo Obama” could and should have done much more; even if the only tool open to him was the “bully pulpit”.
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He did that.
His biggest mistake was using Bill Clinton as a model.
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I don’t believe he did.
If you think criticizing Obama is the same as preferring the opposition – you are sadly mistaken.
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I don’t.
I think that after 6 painful years of watching the sausage being made, I think he did a pretty good job under the worst conditions.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Obama’s center-right maneuvering on issues is taken right out of Clinton’s playbook. He’s done a lot of waffling on issues that can not be blamed exclusively on Congress, and been silent when he could and should have spoken up. He is a quintessential modern Democrat – which has been a lost opportunity for this country.
That said – I could not have expressed it better than your last point:
“I think he did a pretty good job under the worst conditions.”
No American president has had to deal with the level of disrespect to his office and our nation that Barack Obama has.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Obama know weather or not he has the votes.
he signed an executive order to close Gitmo, and the Congress ran scared.
He DID run as someone who who reach across the aisle and build consensus.
I never imagined that we would have had a Democrat, (Evan Byah) who would have FILIBUSTERED the public option.
A lot of the resistance came from bought and paid for Democrats.
If you think that anyone would have broken through that, than, I think you are a sweet country mouse.
I thank you for the last part.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 6:39 pm
It’s “Déjà vous over again”.
Aielyn March 7th, 2015 at 11:08 am
I disagree. By being the “adult in the room”, Obama has drawn a much stronger contrast between himself and the Republican congress. If Obama had been more partisan, and gone more on the attack, it would reinforce the idea that both sides are equally to blame.
Indeed, the real problem is that the Democrats aren’t following his lead correctly. It’s why congressional ratings are so low for both parties, while Obama’s ratings are so much higher (of the order of 3-4 times that of congress).
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 11:13 am
There wasn’t a lead for the Dems to follow until 6 years into his presidency. He wasted way too much time trying to placate an opposition who only saw that as weakness; this really obscured and over-shadowed any real contrast.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 11:51 am
Not when you looked at the votes.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:04 pm
votes don’t make policy…
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 4:54 pm
votes don’t make policy…
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They make policy possible.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Not when the elected have their own agendas.
OldLefty March 7th, 2015 at 9:37 pm
Not when the elected have their own agendas.
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That’s why we have to stay engaged.
Usually “Their own agendas” are those of whoever put the most pressure on them.
Voters tend to only show up every four years, then dust off their hands and disengage.
But lobbyists don’t.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 12:02 pm
I agree with you that Obama tried for too long to bend over backwards and be collegial and bipartisan with a rabid opposition. He extended them a hand, and they savaged it like a pack of piranhas.
It was fitting for him to try, and not respond to their savage attacks in kind. But enough is enough.
We can debate whether he should have come out swinging sooner. We can agree that it’s good to finally see him setting the bullies back on their heels.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:04 pm
Amen…
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Since we’re discussing Kirk vs. Spock fighting styles:
Kirk was always ready to use his fisticuffs to solve the galaxy’s problems, but I always liked the way Spock would dispatch his opponents with a quick nerve pinch to the shoulder.
Like what Obama did to Donald Trump that time.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
To be fair, Trump would not have survived anyone messing with his nervous system.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Trump would have made a good alien on Star Trek. No make-up required.
whatthe46 March 7th, 2015 at 1:20 pm
so you like stupid, ignorant repbus acting like children?
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 2:46 pm
No, but I enjoy calling out stupid, ignorant repbus acting like children for what they are, instead of trying to play nice with them.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 9:38 am
Clinton was Kirk. (a girl on every planet).
Obama has proven that he was the right man at the right time.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 10:10 am
If we needed Chicago-machine politics, you’d be right.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 10:15 am
Way to play the meaningless right-wing conservative meme card.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 10:21 am
Snappy answer – way to put a right-wing trope into the mouth of a liberal; Obama wasn’t the right man at the right time – he was the only man for the job at that time.
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 10:26 am
There we agree.
But I didn’t put “Chicago-machine politics” in your mouth, you did.
starskeptic March 7th, 2015 at 10:32 am
No, but you’re that one who reduced it to a “meaningless right-wing conservative meme card”; especially for anyone who’s lived in Northern Illinois – it ain’t no “meaningless right-wing conservative meme card”.
jybarz March 7th, 2015 at 8:40 am
Typical racist piece of sh!t! I wonder if intense hatred of President Obama like he and right wing conservatives have will cause brain damage or already are damaged?
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 9:52 am
The age-old question: does being conservative make you stupid and ignorant, or does being stupid and ignorant make you conservative?
I tend towards the latter. John Stuart Mill said that not all conservatives were stupid, but all stupid people are conservative.
Larry Schmitt March 7th, 2015 at 9:18 am
That’s okay, I’m sure Mr. Nimoy would be apathetic to this a$$hole’s death too.
burqa March 7th, 2015 at 9:37 am
……makes me want to beam down to this columnist’s planet and hoist a giant foam rubber “boulder” over my head and throw it at him….
jasperjava March 7th, 2015 at 9:43 am
Reference to Lt. Gary Mitchell, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”.
Suzanne McFly March 7th, 2015 at 10:59 am
Seems like someone is blinded by hate, or maybe its just stupidity.
labman57 March 7th, 2015 at 11:05 am
The mind of a right wing political pundit is so … illogical.
arc99 March 7th, 2015 at 11:31 am
For better or worse, I take a lot of this Obama-hatred personally. I voted for the man twice. It is once thing to disagree on policy. But petty, spiteful nonsense like this Spock tirade communicates more than policy difference. It communicates a hatred of everything I happen to believe in. I am no saint. I still struggle to achieve Dr. King’s ideal of responding to hatred with love. If people like the editor of whatever right wing rag pays him are going to hate everything I believe in, I am more than happy to return the favor.
If not for the damage it would do to our country, sometimes I wish we did get a Republican President 2016. It sounds petty but I am at the point that I am ready to give a royal middle finger to all of right wing America. Let’s see them whine and squeal when a President they voted for is subjected to the complete lack of respect as President Obama. If it is not unpatriotic to hate the President and swoon over foreign leaders now, then certainly it cannot be unpatriotic to do the same thing if a Republican is inaugurated in January 2017.
Wouldn’t it be grand if without consulting the Republican President, Democrats invited Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir the openly gay former prime minister of Iceland to speak to a joint session of Congress to educate Republicans on why a federal law guaranteeing the freedom to marry is the right thing to do.
If foreigners are now eligible for leadership positions in America, two can play this game. I hear the leadership of Australia is also quite progressive. Maybe we can recruit a few of them to come and tell Congress why mandatory universal health care and strict gun control are the only valid course of action for a truly free nation.
Of course, if Bibi loses in a few weeks and is replaced by the leader of a left-leaning coalition, the new prime minister of Israel could come back and address Congress again. This time he would speak about how gay people have served openly in the Israeli military for decades and anyone who thinks that policy compromises readiness is a fool.
William March 7th, 2015 at 2:16 pm
“And as I thought more about the president’s statement, I realized he identifies with the very aspects of the Spock character that most annoy me”.
rg9rts March 7th, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Continetti’s mind is like a cesspool
Mainah March 7th, 2015 at 2:44 pm
And he calls himself a Star Trek fan? I think not and it’s Trekkie’s! LLAP!
allison1050 March 7th, 2015 at 8:27 pm
Does Continetti’s family actually own the paper and allow him to entertain himself this way?
fahvel March 8th, 2015 at 6:27 am
beam this sob somewhere far far away where reconstitution cannot occur – oops, he’s already there
thinkingwomanmillstone March 8th, 2015 at 9:39 am
The man, Leonard Nimoy, died, sir…Spock was a fictional character. The problem with the right is that so often they have so much difficulty separating fiction from reality. Great demonstration, idiot!