Obama is No Captain Jean-Luc-Picard — USS Enterprise
by Lurita Doan“Make It So!” Jean-Luc Picard, the intrepid, clever and compassionate leader of the USS Enterprise, often issued this directive to his loyal crew to execute a plan, to save the ship, themselves, or entire worlds. And, the Enterprise crew got it done. Consider President Barack Obama, worlds to appease, a nation to cajole, and a Congress with more plans to assimilate than the Borg. With jobless numbers at 10.2%, Obama is likely wondering: what went wrong?
Picard’s introspective and analytical nature bluntly assessed his actions, refusing excuses, with a plan to improve his performance. Obama may spend time on the White House holodeck, envisioning “what if” scenarios, but an assessment of the year since his election, shows that few of Obama’s campaign promises have come to fruition.
The deficit of $459 billion, which President Obama inherited from George Bush has grown to $1.4 trillion, while the economy has shrunk. The 3.5-million-jobs-created campaign promise has been watered down to claim 600,000 jobs “saved” .
Racial unity and the audacity of change, promised by the election of our first, Black President, is a farce within a farce, epitomized by rantings from leftist liturgists and beer-summit photo-ops that mask real, and growing tensions, exacerbated by the man who promised to end them.
Instead of confronting problems and “boldly going where no one has gone before”, Team Obama, trots out a shopping list of dodgy, leftist ambitions which they blindly follow. Telling Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in congress to “make it so” and create a Stimulus package for him to sign immediately after his inauguration was a bone-headed move.
Obama issued his command, to a congressional crew that wasn’t top notch, and what ensued was a chaotic, 1000 plus pages of legislative pork for projects to study the sexual habits of college freshman, as well as high speed rails from L.A.’s La-La land to Las Vegasland .
Not surprisingly, the Stimulus hasn’t delivered the promised results. Few critical infrastructure projects were begun as a result of the Stimulus. Why? Because President Obama doesn’t understand how Executive Agencies work. Obama may have thought, like Jean-Luc, he could just say “make it so”. But he was wrong.
Obama didn’t know that regulatory relief was needed to get critical infrastructure projects moving. Not $787billion dollars of borrowed money. Just regulatory relief –for the many wickets and hurdles that every government building project has to go through. The President could have provided regulatory relief through an Executive Order, costing taxpayers nothing. So why didn’t the President do it? Because he’s an inexperienced captain and his crew isn’t very good.
In Star Trek, even Captains of the USS Enterprise make judgment errors, miscalculations. But, the crew doesn’t sit quietly by and let the Captain plunge them to ruin. The crew, feels empowered to speak up. Why? Because the crew understands that the ship of state is more important than any ego, more important than any perception of who’s on top.
Cash for Clunkers may go down in history books as one of the most delusional panderings to the populus since Caesars provided bread and circuses to quiet the Roman mob. Cash for Clunkers cost three times more than advertised— why? Not just because of complicated calculations concerning cars bought this month versus the next, but because President Obama doesn’t understand the costs of the bureaucracy that he leads.
Neither Obama nor Democrats in congress understand that federal programs have huge execution risks. They cost money. Programs require people, office space, equipment and staffing. Instead, Obama thought he could just say “make it so”, and, immediately, checks would be issued and citizens would be appeased.
Small businesses have also been victims, used as Obama’s public relations prop these many months. He sure says all the right things, but the programs put in place by the Obama Administration are anti-small business and have had a devastating effect on the small business community. Makes you wish the White House included a Spock-like character as one of the many policy Czars who could always provide the President with the actual facts on issues.
Spock could have told the President that small businesses would be shut out of stimulus spending. Why? Because President Obama doesn’t understand how federal procurement works. Layering mountains of new requirements on an already over-burdened and shrinking cadre of federal procurement professionals, forces them to move slower, not faster. Increasing reporting and oversight requirements on this shrinking work force, while allowing Congress to pressure and intimidate them about speed regarding Stimulus procurements, ensured that federal procurement professionals would be forced to take short cuts, to use existing federal contractors, to bundle lots of small projects together into one contract.
Spock was great at pointing out the unintended consequence of actions and would have understood that allowing Congress to implement Continuing Resolution after Continuing Resolution, without approving the baseline federal budget meant that no new hiring of procurement personnel was possible, despite the hollow claims of government officials. Obama ensured, by his very actions, that small businesses would get screwed. There was no Spock on board to save him. Or them.
A good first officer would have told the President that Healthcare reform should be off the table, when the GDP is falling, job creation is nil and our debt to the Chinese is growing,.
Instead, we see Obama, continuing to campaign, continuing to promise everything to everybody at the expense of a shrinking group of increasingly exasperated taxpayers. “Make It So” works, when it’s issued by a leader, who understands the vessel he commands, who has respect for those whose life’s blood he is risking or raiding, who recognizes that there are often unintended consequences that must be considered, carefully, before moving forward, and who always, always, always, limits the risks to his enterprise.
I’ve seen Jean-Luc in action, and I can tell you, Obama is no Jean-Luc.
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Obama is inexpeienced and immature we should expect poor leadership, the people that should be suprised are the libs who put him in office and the other various dunces who voted for him.
Yes but overall I am pretty sure he is pleased with the economy continuing to falter and the enemies of the US getting stronger
He can't be displeased with his Czars quieting dissent (free speech), protecting (queering) schools, and returning stolen goods (tax payers money) to his cronies not to mention the success of the continued take over of the private economy.
He also has to be pretty happy that the presstitutes are still singing his praises, and the Nobel thing, I mean he has to love that.
If it werent for Brietbart, Fox News, News Busters, the blogosphere, people losing faith in the "One" and dim outlook on the 2010 elections he would probably quite pleased with himself.
I wish I was kidding
I am sure he doesnt like the negative polls or the dim outlook for 2010, but I am truly starting to believe that the euro-trash economy he is creating is something they really want and dont mind at all.
Like Rahm said never let a good crisis go to waste, I suspect that the unspoken follow on is "Never miss an opportunity to extend a crisis"
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Obama is not smart enough to be pulling all this off. He really is just a proxy.
The statist is very smart and they have been planning this for a very long time. The prize is very rich you understand.
Harry Tuttle plan for good government.
1. No bill can be longer than the constitution in word count.
2. All elected officials get financial audits of themselves and their families for 5 years prior to taking office and for every remaining year of their lives. Results of the audits become public record.
3. Term limits.
Cloward and Piven must be beaming with anticipation.
The Star Trek character Obama does resemble is Squire Trelane from "The Squire of Gothos".
"A powerful noncorporeal lifeform playing the 18th-century gentleman to a captive audience from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Trelane was sent to bed by his parents for mistreating lower lifeforms."
They are both peevish, spoilt children who have no respect for other lifeforms.
Side bonus is the audits give the lawyers something to do after we enact flat tax.
The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
-Dr. McCoy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Obama – constant incompetence, boldly blundering where no man has gone before.
i think Obama is very sensitive to looking bad so i have to disagree that he wants the economy to be bad and the US to look bad because that makes him look bad. Yes he did go around talking about how bad we were but its all a reflection of him now. The thing is he has no economic sense, and his utopian foreign policy is childlike in its naievetay(sp) hes in over his head as they say
It is really scary how someone like No_Bama can be elected. I still cannot get over how stupid people are. It just boggles my mind.
Obama resembles a Cardassian more than anything. With Soros being the head of the Obsidian Order. If you know Deep Space Nine, you know what I'm talking about.
Lurita,
Your wonderful argument assumes we are now led by rational to reasonably rational beings. I suspect the truth of the matter is somewhat different. There is not a skeptic to be found inside the beltway anymore.
http://thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com/2009/07/0...
0 has a lot to do with this, but it is the unfettered Congress that is the real problem here. THere is no dollar in your pocket that they can't spend better than you, and do this before you make it to boot. The economy is catching up to them, the public is catching on to them, and they still think the anger is because they haven't tried hard enough to socialize the country
I am not sure how you square this up, his policies are disastorous for the economy, and he even admits that he understands cap-n-trade would burdent it further.
Despite his happy-happy speeches to the American people he knows that unemployment is worse than the numbers they release, and that rampant inflation is just around the corner with the burden of deficit looming larger (and larger if he has his way)
So he knows all this yet it's full steam ahead, so if he was really that worried about a worsening economy why would he continuing down that path?
He is either completely delusional or he understands the ramifications of his decisions, all his users manaual (saul, mao, stalin, etc) pretty much tell him that a crushed economy that is controlled by the government is better than a vibrant economy that is free.
Niether of us are fans, but we will just have to disagree as to his motives.
President Dunsel
The ideas are good ones, most problems with an out of control government system are solvable, but the catch 22 is you have to get enough control to enforce them, probably constituionally.
If in 2010 & 2012 if we do the same old things, get a group in, they take one step forward toward liberty, then the next group takes 2 steps back as usual it's probably our last hurrah.
A lot facist types are probably walking around with tingles running up and down their legs these days
I have been thinking about this, nothing new, some of us are citizens, others are just tennants, human nature for most is to go the easy route.
I hope freedom hasnt been bred out of us yet, we will see
That seems to be the problem, I am afraid that we need a pretty drastic overhaul, the only good news is that they are actually being so ham fisted about it that enough people might wake up in time.
Don't call them "statists", call them what they are…..SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS/MARXISTS; but yes, they have been planning this for almost a century !
Obama wanted the title and the perks; he doesn't want the job, he's just a puppet, and it shows
The Ferengi were better business people, the Klingons would have wrapped up Iraq and Afghanistan eight months ago…
Actually, these liberals remind me of tribbles. Such warm and fuzzy types, they make cute gentle purring noises… Later on you realize they come preloaded with even more warm fuzzy liberal concepts they will bring to life, and in no time they have gobbled up everything you have produced and left you starving. But they still will keep making those peaceful purring noises…
Save the Planet, Starve a Tribble.
Obama, the inept, inexperienced, useless puppet just dithers and takes one trip after another.
People don't realize quite how close Star Trek TNG's greatest episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Wor... is to the greatest struggle of our times: statists (the Borg, assimilating everything in their path to bring the galaxy into line with their perception of order) vs. defenders of freedom (our heroes on the Enterprise and their allies).
Confused and downright incorrect as they might've been on other social issues, Picard and company at least recognized pure evil when they saw it, and threw everything they had at defeating it. They realized there was absolutely no negotiation with this enemy in their previous encounter and understood that it must be destroyed at any cost – even at the assumed cost of Picard's life after his kidnapping and assimilation (as shown in what is considered to be the greatest cliffhanger moment in Star Trek in particular and television in general).
You really need to see it to understand just how much red meat is actually here.
Obama is not smart about economics, it was glaring to me in the health care debate when he said conservatives "they dont think the govt. can do anything right", so he actually thinks the govt. can run a private business well, this to me was a WOW moment. So i actually think he thinks his policies are going to make things better but hes way off the mark. People who think a controlled economy is superior to free market capitalism are just not able to grasp it i think, i mean how could you not understand the failures across the board of socialist economies, its mind boggleing
He has said, I have seen it, that cap-n-trade would cause prices to sky rocket and the GDP to go down, that was pre-election, so he understands that his policies have an economic effect and it's not a good one, yet he still pursues them.
I have also heard him give speeches about how we need to consume less and be happy with less, which is the outcome of his policies.
The fact is that he's following the play books of all his mentors which think that it would be better for the majority to be equally miserable than a small minority to suffer alone.
He also seems to understand what happened in china, russia, and to some lessor extent europe when the same kinds of policies were put in place and so I have to assume he's fine with it.
Now how he thinks that he can politically surrive that I don't know his longer range plans are a bit of mystery, so far his administration has been anything but competent, his ego is x-tra large though so maybe he thinks he can weather it.
as much as a i love star trek and all the different series, i hate the idea of their one world government.
I tell you, I have lost a lot of respect for people I thought were at least semi-intelligent. My husband and I went to a Halloween party last year and were talking to people about who they were going to vote for and the one's voting for Obama were just clueless. They thought we were alarmist by pointing out his "spread the wealth" comments (and mentality). If you had a shred of intelligence it wasn't hard to see where Obama wanted to take this country before he was voted in. But the hope/change crowd couldn't look past their own noses to see it.
The Barak Obama Government announced today that it's changing it's emblem from an Eagle to a condum because it more accurately reflects it's political stance.A condum allows for inflation,halts production,destroys the next generation,protects a bunch of dicks and gives you a sense of security while your actually being screwed.It just doesn't get more accurate than that.
Folks, get used to it. Unemployment is going higher yet.
Wait 'til after Christmas and layoffs happen. I wouldn't be surprised if it hits 12-14% by next summer.
http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff
The "be happy with less" only applies to the plebians of the state (us). We fund their little game of "I run the country" so they have no idea what anything costs. They are fed three meals a day and live in houses supplied to them by John Q Public, and most of them are lifer politicians for that reason. This crap has to stop. You have to at least know how to balance the budget at your house before balancing the budget of a country. Read my post, STOP VOTING IN PEOPLE WHO PROMISE YOU EVERYTHING. They will never deliver and that isa fact.
FLAT TAX!!! YESSS!!!!
The thing is people have gone here before, but only before they enact a dictatorship. Seize guns, silence dissent and finally dissolve the law of the land. Not fun and not over my dead body
Or their own greed/white guilt.
Its pretty obvious no one ever turned over the keys to the Enterprise to the incompetence of Bama, pelosi, reid and crew. Would have been the worlds shortest t.v. series. Now to get rid of Bama and crew. Make it so.
The Obama Administration does remind me, in some ways, of the early Next Generation episodes. At the Helm, piloting the Enterprise, were Geordi LaForge and Wesley Crusher.
But, in the Obama "reimagining", the blind guy doesn't have a VISOR, and the kid's not a genius.
Where's a glommer when you need one?
thanks N_B_G_
You're sure right, others have gone there before, just not on these shores. This country (the good people) has stopped it on other shores and sure as h___ is not gonna lay down for it here.
First Contact, in my mind, shows what happens to a man who has been pushed and pushed till he sees no way out, save a final self destructive act.
"This far and no further!"
The time each of us may have to make that decision may be closer than you think..
Actually, in "Chain of Command" Picard was forced into turning over the Enterprise (America) to a petty, self-important narcissist named Captain Obama..er, Jellico (my bad). Jellico proceeded to alienate the entire crew (Americans) and the Cardassians (non-Americans). He destroyed morale and nearly started a war. Riker, (Conservatives) whom Jellico had relieved of duty (for gross competence after challenging his lack of leadership ability), was eventually tasked with saving his ass and the ship.
Star Trek: TNG warned us all this would happen. Here's a clip from the episode.
Borg Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWLoDlR-p4
And apparently we didn't learn our lesson huh? the ship cant be flown by just anyone. I liked your reply
Obama is exactly like Picard. A man who surrendered his ship in the first episode. A man when the chips were down had to call in a REAL starship captain to do what he couldn't get done. We've got several real captains waiting in the wings to put the ship back on course. That is if he doesn't order a self-destruct first. In that case we the people may have to invoke our own Starfleet Order 104 to relieve him of command. (Impeachment)
Saltydog…..beautifully said.
The end results of a socialist economy is rationing, so "do more with less" is another example of our American presidents socialism. I heard mark sheilds on PBS last night say that what Obama has to do to fix the economy is pass health care. So by adding more costs to hiring an employee he expects business' to hire more people, this guy is guzzling cool-aid, what a hack. How can Obama be considered so intelligent and so ignorant to economics? One has to remember that Einstein was also a socialist, i guess economics are to abstract for some people, but whats so hard to understand about the less money the govt. takes from you by interveneing in the marketplace the more you have. baffling
It would seem simpler to
1) veto any bill with amendments
2) veto any bill written over 200 words
'course that would take a pres with balls and i'm sure he doesn't even know where mybelle hid the lockbox
also isn't there challenge to any law as 'void for vagueness'??
Obama is not a take charge charasmatic leader, he's no principled con artist who is the front man for others who seek to steal America away from the people. Obama is a George Sorros puppet and racist bigot who is too weak in character to admit what and who he is. He hides behind the TV personna hoping no one notices that he has no cohones. I pray to God that America doesn't suffer any larger attacks by terrorists than the one at Fort Hood because Obama will run and hide in the closet and try to make a call to anyonre who will talk to him and make him feel safe. We stupidly elected another weak *&*^&( #$%^%$#& little boy to be President. Obama can't even claimhe's being the president he's always on vacation, playing golf or basketball or going out to dinner with his wife for several hundred thiussnad dollars at taxpayer expense to be President. Obama will go down in history with the like of Taft and carter for being the worst and the weakest ever. I only hope that Obama does get to say he was the first President for life like his buddy Chevez in South America. I think he really wants that title and that's why he's doing soors bidding to destroy america!
Great response. BO will make it so.
Picard tended to be a little on the mushy side to me. It was only when he was pissed off that he really shined. Even with that, Obama could not have sat second chair on his ship.
I agree. Never liked PIcard from when he surrendered his ship on the first mission all the way up to when he had to go to Kirk to defeat Soren. I always thought that TNG Enterprise was sort of a nancy-boy group of touchy feely types that couldn't really get the job done without agonizing over it. After a while, that got old. I much preferred Kirk's Enterprise.
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Obama is one of the finest presidents for several decades. What are you all babbling about? If it were just one of you, I would call it intellectual masturbation.
Seems to be many bitter people here, who would rather die in a phony war on the other side of the globe, than face reality.