The force is strong in this one.
George Lucas has created legendary film heroes like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, but the US director says that in real life, his hero is Barack Obama.
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“We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama,” Lucas said when asked who his childhood heroes were.
Obama, “for all of us that have dreams and hope, is a hero,” Lucas said.
Does this make McCain into Emperor Palpatine?
Does this make McCain into Emperor Palpatine?
I knew he reminded me of someone.
Palpatine never flip-flopped on torture. He was very clearly in favor of it the whole time.
George, I appreciate your support, but whatever you do keep your writing hand away from my candidate’s speeches.
“Does this make McCain into Emperor Palpatine?”
No, rikyrah–a regular commenter over at Prometheus 6–has already awarded that role to Ms. Clinton as Hilpatine.
But what comes after Luke Skywalker? After meaning the middle years of his life. Does Skywalker take on the task of training new Jedi?
Spider, I was just going to leave a similar comment about Lucas and writing speeches.
“Does this make McCain into Emperor Palpatine?”
I can only assume you’ve never looked at pictures of Palpatine and Joe Liebermann next to one another, or you wouldn’t ask this.
I can only assume you’ve never looked at pictures of Palpatine and Joe Liebermann next to one another, or you wouldn’t ask this.
See, I knew Sith lords traveled in pairs.
Huh. The Palpatine/Vader parallel to McCain/Lieberman seems more appropriate when you consider that Anakin used to be the shining paragon of the Jedi, turned to the dark side by the promise of greater power.
@Spider
I think you’re on to something here.
Yoda was clearly a Democrat.
“Ohhhhh, ‘great warrior’! Wars not make one great!”
Jay, I was just going to leave a comment saying that I was going to say something similar to SpiderJ’s 11:42.
From what I’ve heard, they’re over 9,000.
I’ll just take this opportunity to vent that the Midichlorian explanation for the Force was the stupidest revelation in a long string of stupid ideas that Lucas added to the new films.
It’s over 9000!