Trekker POTUS?

[Victor Steinbok]

It's no different from Mittens loving "cheesy grits".

     VS-)

On 8/24/2012 11:41 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> Scratching my head this morning:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/arts/television/chris-hardwick-of-nerdist=
> -industries.html?nl=3Dtodaysheadlines&emc=3Dedit_th_20120821
>
> " President Obama calls himself a =93Star Trek=94 fan, or =93a
> Trekker.=94<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/courting-nerd-vote=
> -obama-flashes-star-trek-salute-with-nichelle-nichols/>"
>
> Did the POTUS really mean to call himself a serious fan of the show? I
> would have thought the (in this case, self-) deprecating "Trekkie" would
> have made more sense.
>
> DanG

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