Spock:Obama::Kirk:McCain?

In the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg takes the "Obama=Spock" meme one step further, and says that not only is President Barack Obama analogous to Dr. Spock (the Star Trek one, not the children's health dude), but Captain James T. Kirk is analogous to none other than John McCain.

Kirk is a wise-ass and a troublemaker. He’s reckless and insubordinate. He’s a skirt chaser. He relishes getting into fights. He wrecks cars. He’s a flyboy. He’s rebellious. He doesn’t do things by the book—he’s a maverick.

The latest revelation comes after Hertzberg read a Newsweek article in which Obama said the last movie he saw was Star Trek (I still have yet to see it, making me the last person under the age of 30 in the United States to not have seen the movie yet).

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.

Did you watch that when you were growing up?
I used to love Star Trek. You know, Star Trek was ahead of its time. There was a whole—the special effects weren't real good, but the storylines were always evocative, you know, there was a little commentary and a little pop philosophy for a 10-year-old to absorb.