George Lucas was in Washington this week to talk to congress about an alternate internet service reserved for educational purposes. Fair enough. That is acceptable. It was his answers to questions posed by Examiner that was unacceptable:

Lucas, who was on Capitol Hill to testify at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee hearing on universal service, was totally nonpartisan when it came to President Bush, declining to weigh in on our question: “Who is President Bush more like: Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader?”

“It’s up to the viewer,” he responded.

Lucas did, however, have one definitive answer: Barack Obama would most certainly be a Jedi. “I would say that’s reasonably obvious,” he said.

I agree that it’s reasonably obvious that Barack Obama is a Jedi if you live, like George Lucas does, with your head up George Lucas’s asshole. Even his coy “it’s up to the viewer” response is unbearable. Someone should put him in a rocketship and send him to spacejail.