Obama is not a nerd. He is simply “nerd-adjacent”.

Chris Ayres in his column at The Times reveals:-

America used to be one nation under God. As of last weekend, it is one nation under Spock. With the new Star Trek movie at No 1 in the box office rankings, the US media has been falling over itself to compare the mixed-race President Obama with the half-human, half-Vulcan science officer of the USS Enterprise (“Obama is Spock: It’s Quite Logical,” declared one headline)

The rest of the column is here.

Ayres concludes:-

Nevertheless, if the success of Star Trek over the weekend says anything about this country as it tries to zap its way out of the Great Recession, it is that Americans are more than willing to suspend their disbelief when presented with a glossy enough production. In that respect, the movie and the Obama Administration are one and the same. I just hope that the wilful gullibility of the general public lasts – and that we’re out of this mess before everyone realises that the technology being employed to keep us from obliteration amounts to little more than a cardboard cut-out spaceship dangled from an old piece of string.

Ayres in that final paragraph pierces the veil of fantasy surrounding Obama to suggest that the reality is in fact far removed from the special effects and amount to little more than a wing and a prayer.

He discusses as well whether Obama is a nerd.

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