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And the last movie you saw?
Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and—[the president makes the Vulcan salute with his hand].
Very good.
Yes, absolutely.
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Spock: “Logic dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
Kirk: “Or the one.”
- The Wrath of Khan
Yep, his story checks out.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM
God, make it stop.
ddrintn on May 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Just curious- Did previous presidents, even in jest, call 1600 Pennsylvania “my house?”
cs89 on May 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Not that I can recall…..
Agreed. it is horrid.
deidre on May 16, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I don’t know but George Washington once called himself “a citizen of the world”. Now perhaps when Obama said it he meant it in a different sense than Washington (it wouldn’t surprise me) but that was never properly explained so the phony controversy over the use of that phrase went nowhere.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Probably not, but this is ObamaSpockJesus we’re talking about.
ddrintn on May 16, 2009 at 10:34 PM
He could say “I’m a citizen of Xeldron 9b in a galaxy far, far away” and the controversy would have gone nowhere.
ddrintn on May 16, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Not that I recall, however Harry Truman created quite a stink when he declared the 150yo house a wreck. He had them gut it and bring it up to New Deal standards. Maybe Barry will put in Kirk’s bridge to replace the Oval Office.
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 10:37 PM
OMG!!!!
d1carter on May 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I get up at 6 am and work until 12:30 am and I dream about work (hey, I love my job), so I work a longer day than this moron. He does realize he’s the President, right?
As far as his being “Spock”, yeah, when Marxism is considered logical maybe that will be true. Rand is way more Spock-like than Mr. Class Warrior and I don’t even really like Rand.
venividivici on May 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Speck.
greggriffith on May 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM
What is the easiest thing you have done:
Obama: Press conferences and spending money like we have it.
deidre on May 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM
So, it wasn’t Marx and Alinsky driving his political philosophy after all — it was a campy science fiction series that he watched when he was 10 years old.
Heaven help us all.
AZfederalist on May 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM
More like Dumbo, really.
tcn on May 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I hope he doesn’t let it go to his head.
Um, what?
Alana on May 16, 2009 at 10:41 PM
So what happens when he goes into his 7 year mating heat, does Joe get to sign stuff?
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM
If you’re saying that Obama can basically do anything he likes while facing no opposition then I disagree. The tea parties are evidence that a certain amount of responsible Americans have a healthy loathing of debt. I just don’t think that phony outrage over Djoin mustard or whatever is likely to be taken seriously. Seizing on trivialities is a waste of time and effort.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 10:44 PM
“Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM”
given the ages of the girls, that shouldn’t occur again until after ‘12 so we may dodge that bullet yet …
Buckaroo on May 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM
“Live long and prosper”…yeah…Meacham is definitely in love.
d1carter on May 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM
spock was foreign born …
/had to be said …
Buckaroo on May 16, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Also he wasn’t a red-blooded male.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 10:48 PM
No, I’m saying he can do or say whatever he wants, and he’ll get a free pass from the media.
ddrintn on May 16, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Nonsense. Spock would never marry a Woo…..
Guardian on May 16, 2009 at 10:49 PM
They were saying “suck,” Barry, not “Spock.” You not Spock.
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
The obvious question:
If Barry is Spock then who the hell is Kirk?
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
You guys are missing the point. He keeps being compared to Spock because he’s not fit for command.
JohnJ on May 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Was he even living in a country that showed Star Trek when he was 10?
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Ah, then I agree. Though he has been lambasted in Pravda. Welcome to Bizarro World where Pravda denounces American politicians for legislating Marxist policies.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Uh huh. Translation: The cable package at the White House only includes Fox News.
amerpundit on May 16, 2009 at 10:53 PM
So what channel aired Star Trek in Jakarta in 1971? Did Obama even have a TV?
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Talk about illogical. Obama as Spock? Since when did Spock need a teleprompter? “Uh, the needs of the, uh, one, outweigh, uh, the needs…”
TheQuestion on May 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Whoa! Good catch. What years was he in Indonesia?
AZfederalist on May 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Star Trek reruns have been shown continuously since the series originally aired. Obama could have watched the show in any decade.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM
He said he watched it when he was 10. Please read the article.
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM
AZfederalist on May 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Wikipedia says he returned to Hawaii in 1971, he would’ve been around 10 then.
cs89 on May 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM
He could be lying.
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Ok….hold on. AFN carried it. If he could pick up AFN in Jakarta he could have seen it. Doesn’t matter. The fact that he says he saw it (yea or nay) isn’t Law & Order proof.
Judge Judy is incapable of beating him senseless with this one.
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Here is a little bit of enlightenment about the Spock thing
conservnut on May 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM
+100,000,000,000,000
capitalist piglet on May 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Maybe they meant the absence of human emotion.
capitalist piglet on May 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Now that is a catch! The group grope fits the pattern.
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Bush.
capitalist piglet on May 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
This guy has a disturbing tendency to flatter himself.
capitalist piglet on May 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Now if we could just I.D. V’ger!
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM
TOTUS
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 11:24 PM
LOL…you just hit 7-7-7 on the slots!
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM
But I just ate something.
capitalist piglet on May 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM
What the f*ck.
Sorry, I meant WTF
Ugly on May 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM
TOTUS is that which seeks the Obama.
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Does his transformation into Spock mean that the U.S.S. Enterprise will be renamed the U.S.S. Meals-on-keels?
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Well… to contiune the Star Trek meme…
We know who Michele O is…
Rahm Emanuel? A Ferengi?
Romeo13 on May 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Rahhhhhhhhm
Ronnie on May 16, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Anyone calling this guy spock is seriously messed up. And the whole “my house” thing is puke city. It’s not your house, you low class, vulgar, dumbass.
dogsoldier on May 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM
William Shatner on Celebrity 911
aengus on May 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM
My house is a thing of beauty
I know my ‘hood, it’s my duty
When the buck stops down here
We all pop a beer
And blame it on a bigoted cutey!
Limerick on May 16, 2009 at 11:49 PM
First thing I tripped over too. Don’t recall that phrase ever being used by any other prez. Certainly not by Bush II, aka the guy who wouldn’t even allow anyone, including himself, to step into what he clearly regarded as the hallowed ground of the Oval Office w/o a suit jacket.
Anyway, certainly adds to our current president’s reputation as “the arrogator.”
inviolet on May 16, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Just reading the clip at the top, I at first didn’t know what he meant by “my house.”
Jest or no, he needs to understand that it is not his house; it is our house.
However, this general principle – not just the house – is exactly what escapes him.
Alana on May 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Obama/Biden:
Speak long and dodder.
Loxodonta on May 17, 2009 at 12:33 AM
He is Spock in the new movie; somebody who is in charge, but shouldn’t be. Let’s hope like in the movie, the real leader takes charge soon.
TheBigOldDog on May 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Hey T’Suck, it’s not YOUR house. It’s the American People’s house. Never forget that.
You greenblooded hobgoblin.
tickleddragon on May 17, 2009 at 12:37 AM
… if only this was just a hologram…
Hey Barry.. it’s NOT YOUR HOUSE, it’s OURS… you’re just a temporary tenant… you arrogant S.O.B..
Texas Gal on May 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM
Well dimwit, if you’re so much like Spock, why don’t you get the fu*k out of here and go back to Spock-i-stan or wherever it is you were hatched?
D2Boston on May 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Obama’s overconfidence in his “superior intellect” more resembles Khan than Spock.
Mike Honcho on May 17, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Obama Now, movies I’ve been doing OK because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house…
Anybody who does not see this attitude as evidence of a major problem is politically tone deaf. The White House is the people’s house and does not belong to any occupant.
Why didn’t Newsweek notice this? Actually, thank God they didn’t so that they printed it instead of spiking it.
The President of the United States is a narcissistic egomaniac.
Wake up, America! We have a major problem here!
Loxodonta on May 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM
A programmed response.
baldilocks on May 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM
I think Obama got more in common with a Shapeshifter that a Vulcan.
Texas Gal on May 17, 2009 at 12:57 AM
If he’s Spock, who’s the red shirt?
spmat on May 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Who in the world would compare the idiot messiah to Spock? BHO wouldn’t recognize logic if it shat all over his head.
I think he mistook remarks that he was an insignificant speck. The idiot messiah isn’t too swift.
progressoverpeace on May 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM
I see a resemblance in the ears.
Ted Torgerson on May 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM
ROFLMAO!!
progressoverpeace on May 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Set phasers on hope!
EnergizeStimulate!Ronnie on May 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM
The investigative reporters of the MSM.
Loxodonta on May 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Kirk: “Is there anyone on this ship, who even remotely, looks like Satan?”
Spock: “I am not aware of anyone who fits that description, Captain”
Kirk: “No, Mr. Spock, I didn’t think you would be”
Ronnie on May 17, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Oh, yes, Newsweek is going to worth every penny of the new $5.95 price they are asking for it.
I wonder if they are going to change the name to Obama Beat – America’s number one fanzine!
Queen0fCups on May 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Just like on the TV show, it changes every week. Only the SS Enterprise didn’t have a flying bus to throw people under.
DrAllecon on May 17, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Did they fly by the Statue of Liberty on the way?
unclesmrgol on May 17, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Sir, I’ve met Spock,
I’ve admired Spock,
I’ve seen Spock die and be reborn…
Sir, you are no Spock
DrAllecon on May 17, 2009 at 1:54 AM
Jeremiah Wright
William Ayers
Rod Blagojevich
Hillary Clinton
Tom Daschle
Nancy Killeger
Bill Richardson
Timothy Geithner
The CIA
The Constitution
Whitey
Ronnie on May 17, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Illogical
- The Cat
P.S.
+1
MirCat on May 17, 2009 at 5:22 AM
Egotistical.
eforhan on May 17, 2009 at 6:37 AM
Reminds me of an article I read shortly after the inauguration (in the WaPo, IIRC), in which Michelle Obama was quoted as having told the Obamas’ visiting relatives and friends not to destroy furnishings, decorations, etc., in the White House.
What kind of people have to be instructed not to destroy your home — especially when “your” home isn’t your home at all, but a national historical monument in which you’re merely temporary occupants?
AZCoyote on May 17, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Well he does have the ears…….
William Amos on May 17, 2009 at 7:19 AM
Actually it has been the “People’s House” since about 1828…
Branch Rickey on May 17, 2009 at 7:19 AM
Oh. Dear. Superb!
Branch Rickey on May 17, 2009 at 7:23 AM
I can see Space Cadet Biden telling Christopher Pike to stand up after he comes in with his wheel Chair.
William Amos on May 17, 2009 at 7:24 AM
BTW dont miss the end quote
William Amos on May 17, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Obama’s ego is so big it should apply for its own statehood. That would make it the 58th state, wouldn’t it, “Mr.Spock?”
It’s a good thing “The Passion of the Christ” didn’t come out after the 2008 election.
Crusty on May 17, 2009 at 7:34 AM
EVERYBODY says he is Spock? Is it because of the big ears?
Who is everybody? The sycophants who surround him?
ctmom on May 17, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Man, do I have a Michelle Obama / Tribble joke. Not gonna do it.
marklmail on May 17, 2009 at 8:32 AM
‘my house’ – - meh.
Just wait til we start hearing ‘my crib’ and ‘i be stayin’
CaveatEmpty on May 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM
As cs89 and others have pointed out, the White House does not belong to that Chicago Thug. Obama is beginning to show the same “simpleton” symptoms as his idiot vice president.
Zorro on May 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM
***Spoiler***
In the movie, Spock screws up and let’s the planet Romulus get destroyed, after promising to save it, so the villain Nero goes back in time and destroys Vulcan.
***End Spoiler***
If Obama thinks he’s Spock based on this film, we should worry.
zmdavid on May 17, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Restating my comment in a clearer way:
***Spoiler***
Spock, through incompetence, set in motion a chain of events that led to the destruction of his homeworld. He is an obvious parallel to Obama.
*** End Spoiler***
(Note: The spell check recognizes Spock, but not Obama)
zmdavid on May 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM
How could he be Spock . Spock did not rely on emotion to get things done.
Jamson64 on May 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
We’re all red shirts now.
aero on May 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM
He moved back to the US from Indonesia when he was 10.
Joe Caps on May 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Are you serious? Do you think you can source that, by any chance? That is just unbelievable.
capitalist piglet on May 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM
So he was in Indonesia until he was in fourth or fifth grade? Maybe that’s why he missed the civics class that would have taught him whose “house” that is.
capitalist piglet on May 17, 2009 at 2:12 PM
I want him thrown out of the White House. He doesn’t belong there.
long_cat on May 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM
He did just about all of elementary school in Indonesia. He is, culturally, more an Indonesian than anything else. The MSM glossed over this by saying that he spent a little time in Indonesia, but it was from ages 5 – 10, the formative years. He is, for all intents and purposes, an Indonesian. That’s why his world view is so odd to Americans and why he made such un-American gaffes such as “57 states” that no American would ever make.
progressoverpeace on May 17, 2009 at 2:25 PM
It was actually an interview with Robin Roberts on Good morning America, and what she said was that she had to tell the party go-ers to settle down because furniture HAD gotten broken!!!!
Queen0fCups on May 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM