Obama Flashes Vulcan Salute With 'Uhura'

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Obama Flashes Vulcan Salute With 'Uhura'

Nichelle Nichols, who played the character 'Uhura' in the original TV show 'Star Trek,' met President Obama in the White House back in February. But she finally received this photo in the mail yesterday, according to her Twitter feed, with the caption "Taken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office - Live Long & Prosper!"



http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-flashes-vulcan-salute-with-uhura

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Oh boy, the birthers are going to have some trouble with this!

He wasn't born in Kenya - by God, he's from Vulcan!

[krispos42]

2. Which makes him an illegal alien in the most extreme sense! n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. Oh noes!! What are we gonna do?

I'm sure Orly Taitz is right on this!

[athenasatanjesus]

8. They would really hate a Vulcan president.

The logic would give them headaches.

[lastlib]

30. Why? They had a Romulan Vice president (Cheney)!

(Or was he a Sith lord? I never could tell..................)

[Diclotican]

32. lastlib

lastlib

I think it was a Sith Lord - as A romulan vice president would be far to honest for the job Dick R. Cheney did when he was in office - but it would work right into the fold of what a Sith Lord could be able to do

Diclotican

[backscatter712]

37. Cheney would be a Cardassian. n/t

[hifiguy]

38. You beat me to it.

My first thought.

[pokerfan]

46. The Tea Baggers = The Pakled

"We look for things. Things that make us go. Can you make us go?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakled#Pakled

[lastlib]

49. You're basically right, except for the first syllable....

[Diclotican]

33. athenasatanjesus

athenasatanjesus

A Vulkan president, would blow the head of most member of the GOP, and maybe even most of the voters, who vote GOP.....
One the other hand, it would have been nice to have a Vulcan President in the White House - the logic a Vulcan President have, is maybe exactly what US need this days..

I for one, would like to be standing next to Uhuru . She was great in Star Trek - and i have all the movies, and series, and looking forward to the next installment who is due 2013...

Diclotican

[Warren DeMontague]

56. Lt. Uhura would kick their asses.

They mess with her at their extreme peril.

[Pisces]

4. This cat is too cool!!!

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

[ChicagoRonin]

6. President O's coolness factor

Okay, like a lot of Obama's supporters, I can't help but disappointed by some of his policies decisions (though, ultimately I am going to vote for him over the crazies in the GOP).

That being said, try looking at that photo and imagining any other president looking as cool doing what he is doing (Bush, Reagan, even Clinton).

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. I feel the same way.

You can't help but like the guy even when disappointed.

It's a beautiful photo in many ways. Especially considering the ground breaking work of Nichelle Nichols.

[turn off your mind]

7. It's Illuminati.

[redqueen]

10. ....

[great white snark]

26. What the frack?

DU never ceases to amaze.

[Spazito]

44. Oh no! The Illuminati got ya!

[hfojvt]

9. just one problem

When is Leonard Nimoy going to get to meet with Obama in the White House?

[Playinghardball]

11. Now is the time for Obama to kick some of those nasty Klingon butts (err...a.k.a. Republicans)

[gordianot]

12. I tend to look at the GOP as Ferengi, Klingons had more class.

Remember the Ferengi kept females at home and naked; which parallels similar GOP attitudes about women.

[Richard D]

15. Exactly

The Ferengi are the epitome in pop culture of the Randian ideal.

[tru]

21. novels

Read some of the followon novels, you will come to like Quark. (I always kind of liked him anyway

God, I miss Star Trek.

[Diclotican]

34. Tru

Tru

Or look at the series Deep space 9, where Quark hold one of the more known figures.. Even tho he play as a ferrengi, he is far more kind than most ferrengis - and for some reason, he like the Federation, and the Humans.. But he is also little scared about the Humans - mostly because he know that under the ferniss of civilization, Humans can be a beast. Something he warn his nephew about, when (in Season 6) the Federations, The Klingon's and after a long while also the Romulans was fighting the Dominion, who tried to conquer the whole of the Federation.. And also harm the other greater powers who is part of the universe of Star Trek..

Diclotican

[csziggy]

27. The name Ferengi comes from "foreigner" in Arabic, apparently

"Ferengi" and similar terms are Arabic names for European traders, or for Westerners in general. The name is likely derived from the Arabic word faranj or ifranj, or Persian farangi, meaning "Franks". In Ethiopia, ferenj or ferenji has the same meaning, as does farang in Thai. The source of the name is likely from the Byzantine Greeks who were the Westerners' neighbors; this usage spread to the Near East, Asia, Africa and even China.[3] Greeks still sometimes use fra[n]gkoi (φράγκοι as an exonym for Western Europeans, and the modern Greek term ferengios (φερέγγυος, ο φέρων- εγγύηση, ο δυνάμενος να εγγυηθεί literally translates as "the able to ["bear" (=carry)] guarantee (himself)", the trust-worthy, and not only in a financial way! The term was used as a partially derogatory term in India to denote the British.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Etymology

Think of the business practices of the British East India Company and it is a perfect fit.

[hifiguy]

39. Bingo. Repukes are Ferengi. Every last one of them.

Klingons are honorable warriors with a samurai-like ethic.

[Hippo_Tron]

52. With one exception, the Ferengi don't like war

They tend to think that any conflicts that lead to war can be solved more efficiently with peaceful bargaining.

[gordianot]

58. Pretend capitalist are smarter than the one in real life who claims he is an expert.

RMoney would do well to read the laws of acquisition and profit. No pockets in a shroud, am sure they have considered that situation.

There are laws 34 and 35

34 Peace is good for business
35 War is good for business.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

13. Obama is the first president

in my lifetime that has a clue about American pop culture What I wouldn't give to
see one debate on pop culture. Rombot would prove he's been living on that planet
Joseph Smith promised him.

[groundloop]

14. I dunno' - Bill Clinton seemed pretty much with it

He even played a pretty decent saxophone.

This brings to mind GHWB, on the other hand, who went to a supermarket and was in total awe with the bar code scanners.

[Beacool]

35. Bill Clinton, you forgot him.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

41. True that. Clinton

at that time was the hippest guy in the room.

[Beacool]

50. Bill will always be the Big Dawg.

I remember being quite young and so impressed seeing a presidential candidate play the sax on late night TV. I was also equally impressed with his smart wife.

[bullwinkle428]

16. Romney wishes he were there, so he could attempt to communicate in Romluan.

[nolabear]

17. Obama's Platform: Live Long and Prosper.

The GOP's Platform? What's Vulcan for "Fuck you"?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

22. In Vulcan.

The best way to insult someone in a Vulcan stylee is to take an existing insult, and modify it so that it sounds like something a Vulcan would say. Vulcans wouldn't use foul language or slang, they would merely explain what they were going to do to you if you didn't shut up.


In English: Fuck you or shut up

In Vulcan: If you do not refrain from misinforming the voters due to your propensity for lying, I will be forced to remove your head and defecate into your esophageal passage.

[grantcart]

19. I think that they did a great job fixing his ears

Artist rendering of what it looked before the operation;

[joeybee12]

20. I LOVE Nichelle...great lady...

Glad to see she's doing well.

[Wait Wut]

23. He looks more than happy...

...he looks excited! I think he's a closet Trekkie. Not gonna go over well with the Star Wars crowd.

He needs to get Chewbacca on board with the campaign.

[Matariki]

24. OMG she's gorgeous.

How old is she?

[csziggy]

28. Born December 28, 1932 - and she looks less than 60!

[maxrandb]

36. So beautiful I almost am suffering from pon farr n/t

[eridani]

54. Everyone should be so lucky as to age that well n/t

[Odin2005]

25. How long before the bigots claim it's a gang sign?

[Rex]

43. They are still busy dancing on a poor kids grave.

They have their hierarchy of 'sick and evil fucking' things that are on their daily list to do and the Martin murder is still first and foremost.

[Posteritatis]

55. Probably about as long as it took for "terrorist fist bump" to show up awhile back. (nt)

[DearAbby]

29. SHIT!!!

Birthers now have evidence Obama is an Alien from the planet Vulcan. SHIT SHIT This is HUGH!!

[Iliyah]

31. The Klingon Empire have

honor and that is absolutely not the GOP.

I'll say the GOP reminds me of the Romulan Empire. They are cold and brutal and greedy as hell.

[hifiguy]

40. I just knew that the POTUS

was a Trek fan. Very cool!

[Rex]

42. Live long and prosper.

Something foreign to the Repukes 'mindthink'.


They had to use the military (and failed), Obama uses his brain and smile.

Google; miserable failure

Not true Rex, if I was still Grand Commander Bunnypants I would have you watortured!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

45. Obama is a trekie?

My father just might vote for a Republican once before passing on after-all.

[freshwest]

47. How about Martians? Surely you heard about Obama and Marvin the Martian here.

[Matariki]

48. As a girl geek, I have to say, I'm proud of our first geek President!

[Fumesucker]

51. It was Martin Luther King Jr who talked Nichelle Nichols out of leaving Star Trek..

She was going to leave after the first season..

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/17/star-treks-nichelle-nichols-on-how-martin-luther-king-king-jr-changed-her-life/

[FourScore]

53. She's still beautiful. n/t

[loudsue]

57. She is really beautiful.

I wish I were aging like that!