And wasn't the whole war in Star Wars (the original, and led up to by the new ones) started or directly related to the economy? Which is a big issue these days.... food for thought.

Posted January 27, 2004 1:32 PM by Adam Lipkin

Sidiously.

Posted January 27, 2004 1:32 PM by D.

Yes! I remarked to my wife some months ago that even if I were a Republican looking for an honest conservative to vote for, I'd have a hard time voting for someone who looked like he might shoot lightning bolts at me.

Posted January 27, 2004 2:13 PM by Mike Kozlowski

I've maintained for years that Beck (the singer) resembles Lieberman to a frightening extent.

Posted January 27, 2004 2:17 PM by Sumana

I’d have a hard time voting for someone who looked like he might shoot lightning bolts at me.

You dare not vote for him, Rebel scum?

Posted January 27, 2004 2:22 PM by Dan Blum

I always thought he looked a little like Gollum when he does his "I'm pleased with myself smile." Here's a scrrencap comparison: http://kwc.org/blog/archives/000569.html

Posted January 27, 2004 2:31 PM by Ken

Yeah, we've been calling him The Candidate From Naboo all year around here. There's also a columnist we believe looks like Emperor Palpatine, but we like her work enough not to comment that way in public.

Posted January 27, 2004 3:00 PM by Mris

They even scan the same. "A vote for Lieberman is a vote for order!"

Posted January 27, 2004 3:20 PM by Jim

Ooo, you changed the thread title. I assume the music you mean is "Darth Vader's Grandmother Wears Army Shoes."

Posted January 27, 2004 5:41 PM by Xopher

Oh, and we also think he looks a bit like Piter Devries from "Dune."

Posted January 27, 2004 5:45 PM by Mris

I felt a great disturbance in the Joementum. As though 5 to 7 per cent of the electorate cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

Posted January 27, 2004 6:29 PM by --kip

Like a door opening, then closing.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:01 PM by Claude Muncey

There are quite a few Democrats in Congress who have been acting like Jar Jar Binks.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:10 PM by Jon Meltzer

Kip, I could tell from the next room when Patrick got to your comment.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:11 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

It's Joe-lting! Joe-ciferous! Joe-i d'sprit!

Posted January 27, 2004 7:13 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Christopher, I've just realized which bit of music that matches, so now I know its name. What I really had in mind were some soft, apprehensive descending chords.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:20 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Omighod! It had not occured to me, but now that I've been enlightened, I'll never forget it. Many thanks for the grin. I'll spread the word for you here in small town East Tennessee.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:28 PM by Chris Noto

You can get a point-by-point breakdown here:

Is Joe Lieberman actually Emperor Palpatine?

Although the music I'm thinking of (for no direct reason I can identify) is "What Do You Get A Wookie For Christmas (When He Already Has A Comb)?" From the Star Wars Christmas Special.

Which, if anyone here has seen it, should induce wracking pain at the memory. You're welcome.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:37 PM by Jazz

I put your quote in my blog today and one of my friends posted two side-by-side pictures:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/allyson13/58519.html?mode=reply

It's totally scary how much they look alike!

Posted January 27, 2004 7:38 PM by Allyson M. W. Dyar

Well, look, Jam Master Yoda has repeatedly sat within two meters of The Shortly To Be Most Evil Guy in the Galaxy, and merely grumbles about how the Dark Side makes his rheumatiz act up somethin' fierce. Apparently he can detect a disturbance in the you know what at deep interstellar distances, but all Cosmic Evil has to do is act like Mr. Green Jeans being surprised by Bunny Rabbit's duplicity, and stealth mode is fully activated.

What this says about Al Gore I don't know.

Posted January 27, 2004 7:38 PM by John M. Ford

So, who's the candidate from Tatooine?

[jawa]

Kucinich!

[/jawa]

Posted January 27, 2004 8:43 PM by Niall McAuley

Niall wrote:
> So, who’s the candidate from Tatooine?

I don't know. But I do know Ann Coulter reminds
me of Jabba the Hutt. Not in shape-- just in the
schadenfreude and live frog scarfing sense.

Posted January 27, 2004 9:02 PM by Stephan Zielinski

Whenever he's on the radio, his voice reminds me of Wallace Shawn's in "Princess Bride." I keep expecting to hear, "It's inconceivable!"

Posted January 27, 2004 9:32 PM by Betsy

Howdy,

Neil Gaiman's pointed out that Lieberman would look like a Guardian of the Universe (from the Green Lantern Corps) if you painted him blue.

-- Ed

Posted January 27, 2004 9:44 PM by Edward Liu

heh... Democrats in Congress as Jar Jar Binks.

I wonder what Star Wars characters this revelation makes the other candidates? Now I'm having a really hard time NOT seeing Howard Dean as a small Wookie... ;-)

Posted January 27, 2004 10:33 PM by Scott

Well, the other day it was speculated that John Kerry had a bit part in Attack of the Clones, here.

Posted January 27, 2004 11:02 PM by Jaquandor

Just an oddity, when I went to post

http://www.geocities.com/robertwgardner2000/palpatine.html

to my regular Sunday/Tuesday chat, the link had become unreadable. Puzzling

And now it is again. Is a mystery.

Posted January 28, 2004 12:33 AM by Paula Helm Murray

Paula,
Geocities has some tight limits on how much bandwidth is available for each site. If there are a couple of pictures on the site and a lot of people viewing, it's really easy to get locked out for a while.

Posted January 28, 2004 12:57 AM by Virge

Ed, I just tested Gaiman’s hypothesis.

Posted January 28, 2004 1:14 AM by Avram

Huh. I just think he looks like a frog. I think it's the mouth. I keep expecting to see a long tongue flick out and snare a passing fly.

MKK

Posted January 28, 2004 1:45 AM by Mary Kay

And my favorite, Kerry, bears an unfortunate resemblance to The Tall Man.

Posted January 28, 2004 8:40 AM by BSD

Nah. Wonkette shows us who Kerry really looks like.

And you know, I was feeling bad about mocking Joementum. I mean, it takes some commitment to support your guy when he's polling so far out of the race. Yes, it's a silly slogan, and whoever came up with it should not quit the day job, but the man's wearing his lucky maroon tie, 30 years old and threadbare, everywhere he goes. That's gotta count for something.

But then I read that he considers New Hampshire to have been "a three-way split decision for third place.

"Today," he said, "the people of New Hampshire put me in the ring."

Joementum! Feel the burn!

(Extra bonus points: his tour bus is named Integrity One.)

Posted January 28, 2004 10:49 AM by --kip

--kip, I think in his case the momentum is angular...

Posted January 28, 2004 11:57 AM by Xopher

Avram, I think we have to take that as positive test results.

Jazz, my only problem with that site is its comparison of Al Gore to Darth Sidious. Doesn't everyone realize he's Clark Kent?

Dunno, Mike. And how come the Jedi are running around with lightsabers instead of taking over HR departments everywhere?

Stephan, I get a definite nonhuman vibe off that woman. Claiming that she used to be a deadhead is an awkward alien-type attempt to give her a back story. That, or she was taking deadheads off into dark corners and sucking their brains out through their sinuses during the rave-up "Not Fade Away" finale when nobody's watching.

Posted January 28, 2004 9:06 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

...and if no one gets my angular momentum pun, I really will have to slit my wrists.

Posted January 28, 2004 11:13 PM by Xopher

Xopher: Don't worry, I think your angular momentum comment is about the funniest thing that I've read on the election today. But I think it applies to all candidates who use the momentum term.

Posted January 28, 2004 11:42 PM by eric

Axially Xopher, I rolled on the floor at the spin you put on Joe's momentous precession.

Posted January 29, 2004 1:05 AM by Virge

"How come the Jedi are running around with lightsabers instead of taking over HR departments everywhere?"

It has to do with playing MP3s. You either carry a lightsaber, wear one of those Bose Stormtrooper pots, or you need a personal DiscoDroid(tm) to follow you all over the place.

This is also the backstory for that "we got another bad transmitter" line from Movie One. Four. Six of one and half a Jar Jar of the other.

Posted January 29, 2004 1:29 AM by John M. Ford

When's a blast door not a blast door?

When it's a Jar-Jar!

Posted January 29, 2004 4:43 AM by Niall McAuley

I've always thought Lieberman looked just like a Keebler Elf.

Posted January 29, 2004 8:41 AM by William Burton

Soft, apprehensive descending chords? Not the classic scary-movie riff of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor?"

In the "that's just wrong" department, I know someone who used the Imperial March (Darth Vader's Grandmother etc.) as her wedding processional. Another sometime poster will Know Who I Mean. :)

Posted January 29, 2004 8:58 AM by Rikibeth

Teresa, true: Al Gore is definitely Clark Kent. But the Palpatine-Lieberman comparison shots were too priceless not to share.

Rikibeth: My fiancee has already brought down the veto on the Imperial March at our wedding, I'm afraid. I'm still holding out hope for putting the Cantina Song in to the mix for the reception, though...

Posted January 29, 2004 9:33 AM by Jazz

Every time Lieberman opens his mouth, my reaction is he sounds like a schnorrer.

---L.

Posted January 29, 2004 10:14 AM by LNHammer

Jazz: have you considered using something serious and straightforward for the processional, but entering the reception to the Imperial March?

My husband and I used the old standby Pachebel for a processional (carefully timed so I entered on the sixteenth notes, I *still* love those sixteenth notes), and a nice bit of Vivaldi for the recessional, but when we made our entrance to the reception, we had the band playing the Muppet Show theme.

The cantina band music would work too.

Trust me, you don't REALLY want the Imperial March for the processional itself. Your friends would be unable to resist making scratchy breathing noises while it was going on.

Posted January 29, 2004 10:39 AM by Rikibeth

A friend just wrote to say that Kerry is comparable to the AJ pic on the $20 bill.

Posted January 29, 2004 10:50 AM by Barb

A friend just wrote to say that Kerry is comparable to the AJ pic on the $20 bill.

Posted January 29, 2004 10:51 AM by Barb

Ironic, no? Despite Lieberman's being a closet Republican, I think neither senator REALLY wants to see the senate in Republican hands...

Posted January 29, 2004 12:04 PM by the talking dog

Friends of mine used Nick Lowe's "I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass" for their wedding reception first dance.

Posted January 29, 2004 3:11 PM by Jon Meltzer

>>...my reaction is, [Lieberman] sounds like a schnorrer.

Hurray, hurray, hurray!

No, wait. -None- of the candidates looks like Groucho. I'm not sure if this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, though it would certainly make discussions of, say, finance reform ("Ah, you can't-a fool me. There ain't no soft-money clause.") a bit more interesting.

Posted January 29, 2004 4:05 PM by John M. Ford

Being a schnorrer is, alas, his only resemblence to Cap'n Spaulding. The campaign would certainly be a lot more entertaining, were it otherwise.

---L.

Posted January 29, 2004 5:38 PM by LNHammer

Virge: [bows reverently to the master]

Posted January 29, 2004 6:36 PM by Xopher

Teresa, didn’t we spend a subway trip once trying to flesh out the Gore-as-Clark-Kent thing? I remember that Dick Cheney was Metallo (the man with the Kryptonite heart), Karl Rove was Lex Luthor, and Dubya was Bizarro, but I’ve forgotten if we came up with any others.

Posted January 29, 2004 10:15 PM by Avram

I'd cast Rumsfeld as the Terrible Toyman, if Cheney is taken (the classic Toyman, not the puppet in the animated series). Perhaps . This page might be useful in placing the rest of them. (To be fair, though, it reveals that the Toyman has much more of a paunch than Donald does.)

Posted January 29, 2004 10:39 PM by Lenny Bailes

Disturbing, yes, but am I the only one who thinks that John Kerry looks like the the Smiler from Transmetropolitan?

Posted January 29, 2004 11:25 PM by Matt Austern

Is there anyone who hasn't seen this?

Posted January 30, 2004 2:16 AM by Lenny Bailes

I've always thought that Lieberman sounded like Dr.Zoidberg from Futurama.

Posted January 30, 2004 1:03 PM by Bill Householder

If Al Gore is Clark Kent, does that make Bill Clinton Jonathan Kent and Albert Gore Sr. Superman's biodad?

Posted February 1, 2004 6:16 PM by Maureen

Avram, one of the great problems of Superman is that he's never had the rogue's gallery befitting a hero of is stature. On the other hand, Rumsfeld sort of looks like Toyman, and if you drew a mustache on Ari Fleisher, he'd sort of look like a thin version of the Prankster ("always annoying, rarely truly dangerous"). And of course Terra-Man, the space cowboy who fights against alien invaders like Kal-El, would be Paul Wolfowitz, but the physical similarity is non-existant. Condi Rice probably wishes she were La Encantadora ("La Encantadora uses a mysterious mist to make people believe what she wants them to believe"), but get real, girl.

I assume everyone has seen this installment of The Boondocks.

Of course, Lex Luthor is president of DC-America these days. (Or has that ended? I'm way behind on the Super books.)

Posted February 3, 2004 10:47 AM by Kevin J. Maroney

Well, it looks like we won't have Senator Palpatine to kick around any more...

Posted February 4, 2004 6:59 PM by Bob Oldendorf

Over at Pandagon (I think), someone posited that Lieberman's concession speech should have included the phrase, "No, Alf, you can't eat that cat."

Posted February 5, 2004 3:25 AM by Ray Radlein

Luthor is still President in the DCU but there are hints that that will end soon, and not prettily.

Posted February 6, 2004 5:34 AM by David Goldfarb

I've had this a few times. :)

http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001913.html

http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/000087.html

Posted February 6, 2004 10:15 AM by Scott

Makes you wish that you could send a strong electrical current over the internet.

Posted August 11, 2004 3:50 PM by Michelle finds comment spam

michelle, those of us who have done tech support for a living have wished for that for years...

Posted September 26, 2004 12:33 AM by betsy finds comment spam on cue the ominous music