When Jar Jar Binks’ creator came out this last week to say that he was happy to be supporting the Jar Jar of candidates the Obamessiah, meesa was muy unsurprised:

“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.

Well, the Neverland Ranch vote is locked up. Childhood is evidently still the present for Lucas who has defined “hero” down to making speeches in a reality far, far away.

Contrast Lucas’ intriguingly infantile world view with John Bolton in today’s LA Times who does not share his penchant for walking into a voting booth while hopped up on popcorn, cotton candy, and schoolgirl crushes:

Barack Obama’s willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea “without preconditions” is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states.

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Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy’s first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War’s most dangerous crises.

Unfortunately for idealists, when Bolton steps into the World of Electronic Light And Magic ™ he can come off like an angry drunk kicking over your Star Wars collector figures and smashing your Dagobah action playset with a baseball bat your FX Lightsaber after a long day at the U.N. (and subsequently, the bar).

Consider the following statement (from Obama), which was lost in the controversy over his comments about negotiations: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. … Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn’t stand a chance.”

Let’s dissect this comment. Obama is correct that the rogue states he names do not present the same magnitude of threat as that posed by the Soviet Union through the possibility of nuclear war. Fortunately for us all, general nuclear war never took place. Nonetheless, serious surrogate struggles between the superpowers abounded because the Soviet Union’s threat to the West was broader and more complex than simply the risk of nuclear war. Subversion, guerrilla warfare, sabotage and propaganda were several of the means by which this struggle was waged, and the stakes were high, even, or perhaps especially, in “tiny” countries.

In the Western Hemisphere, for example, the Soviets used Fidel Castro’s Cuba to assist revolutionary activities in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In Western Europe, vigorous Moscow-directed communist parties challenged the democracies on their home turfs.

Not that the Soviets have changed one bit under de facto President Putin. They still love their show trials and poisoning defectors. They still funnel weapons through rogue nations to destabilize democracies:

On the same day Colombia said it had captured a Venezuelan national guard officer carrying 40,000 AK-47 assault rifle cartridges believed to be intended for leftist guerrillas, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said Saturday he would withdraw a decree overhauling intelligence policies that he had made earlier that week.

The rare reversal by Mr. Chávez came amid intensifying criticism in Venezuela from human rights groups.

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While Mr. Chávez’s government did not immediately comment on the arrest of the Venezuelan officer, who was identified as Manuel Teobaldo Agudo Escalona, the episode suggests that pressure could mount in Washington to add Venezuela to the list of countries that are state sponsors of terrorism.

It’s been said that “a Socialist is only a Communist without a gun”* so what to make of Hugo? For that matter, the only difference between an Idiot and a Dangerous Idiot is a vote.

This week, George Lucas is that Dangerous Idiot. In all fairness, Lucas is always the idiot but it’s not every week he opens his mouth and proves it.

Special thanks to everyone who went to see the latest Indiana Jones’ movie to help bring Obama and Chavez a few million advertising dollars closer to lying in a field and looking up at the sky while arguing about what the clouds look like.

Obama: That one looks like Gramsci. And that one looks like US imperialism!

Chavez: Yea, I think I see it too!

Those Soviet bought weapons he funneled to FARC? Don’t let that distraction bother you. That’s not the Hugo Chavez he knows*.

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1. It is well known that lefties tend to prefer the unicorn and cotton candy words of a “visionary” over the sometimes mean actions required to run the real world.

   But I had no idea that their fantasy could be so poorly directed and still convincing.

   Yoda for Pres!

   comment by Cranky — Sunday, June 8, 2008 @ 10:32 am

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2. I thought you might say something like that. Yoda is about the most racist cat in the galaxy.

   Always warning people to “beware of the Dark Side” this or “stay away from the Dark Side” that. You know what he meant. Segregation. Pre-Plessy. Separate and unequal. He was the Robert Byrd of the Galactic Republic.

   Then he’d rock back on the old “How can I be racist - I’m green” defense or that Mace Windu was one of his best friends.

   Right.

   Then I remember that Lucas is the one who wrote all of this stuff. Everything in it is a racist caricature. From Jar Jar Binks’ step-n-fetchit Spanglish to his rendering of what a representative from “the Banking Guild” looked like.

   Han shot first. Quit blaming it on the greenies.

   comment by Brian — Sunday, June 8, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

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3. The Money Line Quote:

   “the only difference between an Idiot and a Dangerous Idiot is a vote.”

   Dude, now you’ve got me thinking about Star Wars and its racist under/overtones the same way that Tarrantino sold me on Top Gun being chock-full of gayness from the anus.

   comment by Yiddish Steel — Monday, June 9, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

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