The Force to Washington George Lucas takes
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas was on Capitol Hill in
Washington this week to testify on something or other and when there's no news to be heard, reporters start asking the silly questions.
They wanted him to liken modern politicians to his movie characters. Like, was Darth Vader based on Vice President Dick Cheney? Or something like that.
Anyway, Lucas, who's also responsible for harnessing the Force, played it cagey. Until he was asked if Sen. Barack Obama would be a Jedi knight.
Maybe the answer you think you know.
But over to Elizabeth Snead's Dish Rag blog you'll have to click to be sure.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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Posted by Andrew Malcolm on June 26, 2008 in Advertising , California , Candidate Character , Democratic Politics , Humor , Media , Political History , Presidential Campaign , Senate , Vice President Cheney | Permalink
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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I like how politicians think, a character that was created 20 years ago was based on vice president Cheney, George Lucas is good not that good.
Posted by: Madison | June 26, 2008 at 09:00 AM
the only candidate for president to wield with skill a 'light saber' of reason, RON PAUL, is rendered invisible to those hypnotized, contaminated, corrupted by the joint dark forces of evil that are more comfortable with totalitarism than with liberty, and won't hesitate to use devastating weaponry for what they believe to be their personal profit, on millions of people anywhere.
Posted by: dave | June 27, 2008 at 09:48 PM