In more Election 2008 poster-related news, David Friedman over at Ironic Sans has secured permisson from Lucasfilm to print and sell his Obama + Star Wars mashup poster at Zazzle.com.
My take on this race? While it’s true that Princess Leia’s kidnapping did generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the Imperial Senate, her relationship with a reckless, law-flaunting smuggler seriously damaged any political capital the rebels had acquired.
Also, Skywalker’s lineage hurts him: his father was a ruthless leader, and no amount of advertising claiming Skywalker’s “humble roots as a moisture farmer” can reverse that fact.
Prognoisis: a close one, but Skywalker won’t win enough swing systems to put him over the top.
I’m sick of you pro-Empire bloggers. Can’t we have a campaign that focuses on the issues for once, free of negative Sith tactics. I can’t even turn on my hologram generator without being inundated with unsubstantiated rumors about Skywalker family ties to the Hutt-run Tattooine mafia, baseless allegations that Luke has been secretly arming Ewoks to fight a shadow war on the forest moon of Endor or lewd conjecture about the nature of Luke’s early relationship with his sister. And just because Luke was apprenticed to Obi Wan Kenobi–a Jedi whose sermons have referred to the current galactic leadership as “twisted and evil”–does not mean that Luke himself shares those views.
Let’s get back on topic here people, and may the Force be with us.