Hollywood director/producer/writer/all round moneymaking machine George Lucas believes Obama is A New Hope.

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.

Lucas was in Japan on Wednesday to promote his latest film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” as Obama clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.

“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.

Lucas is the creator of the blockbuster “Star Wars” series, as well as the adventures of the swashbuckling archaeologist Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford.

Obama on Tuesday sealed the Democratic contest after a marathon battle with Hillary Clinton, becoming the first black White House candidate nominated by a major party.

Which is ironic, considering Obama’s reluctance to use the force.

Update: Still on the subject of anti-white sermons and Star Wars (language warning).

14 thoughts on “Obama Ben Kenobi”

  1. New hope? Puh-leez. No hope is more like it. Not that that will stop him from getting loads of votes. His force is a farce, and The Schwartz is not with this one.

  2. Obama has spent years surrounding himself with racists, only belatedly left a radical ‘church’ after some 20 years because he’s running for president and has had dinner with left wing terrorists who still boast of their exploits and have no regrets.
    Yet people still want to vote for him.

    Man, I guess whitey is stupid.

  3. I am proud to be an American Jew. We have have been the strongest supporters of Israel since its beginning, New York City has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world.
    As indicated by previous elections, more than 75 percent of us will vote for Barak Obama for president (low estimate).
    We will continue to support Israel and reject the dhimmi status offered to us by the Christian right through the Republican party.

    Stan

  4. As indicated by previous elections, more than 75 percent of us will vote for Barak Obama for president (low estimate).

    How tragically naive and naively tragic.

    We will continue to support Israel and reject the dhimmi status offered to us by the Christian right through the Republican party.

    I have certain strong resentments about the Christian support but just how do you see it as some form of dhimmitude?

  5. Stan – what are talking about? I am a Canadian Jew and I can assure you that if it is dhimmitude you are trying to avoid then you are voting for the wrong candidate. Remember Jimmy Carter, Stan? He is the dhimmi king . Obama is the crown prince.

    Stan, times have changed. The Christian right isn’t screaming for Jewish blood – they are the good guys now. It’s the left, Stan, the left that would like to see Israel disappear – and the Jews with it. Check out the responses to the following Sam Stein article at Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/04/lieberman-carries-mccains_n_105179.html – the left doesn’t like us anymore, Stan. We haven’t been the flavour of the month for a long, long time.

    So you think 75% of New York Jews will vote for Obama? I don’t think so, Stan – I sure hope not. I thought we were all smarter than that.

  6. The christian right (the hard core foot soldiers of the republican party) openly state that America is a Christian country. They actively engage in court cases allowing Christian prayer in school (I was involved in one of these cases), and work through both legislation and the legal system for their so called values to be part of U.S. law.
    You do no have to believe me about this. Listen to the evangelists and read their websites.
    As far as the left being anti-israel, yes there are many people on the left that are delusional, so too on the right. Just read Bob Novack the Bush administration’s right wing press point man for “leaking information”. He still writes that Tel Aviv is the capitol of Israel. There is no shortage of Anti-semitism either on the left or the right. I will admit that the delusional left is more actively anti-semitic than the delusional right (which is looking to the rapture where Jews will be left behind), but I challenge you to show me anti-Israel statements by Barak Obama (not guilt by association where even Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents courted and court people Abbas and Arafat).
    A little under 80% is the going rate for Jews in America voting democratic. We support Israel. You might not like those figures, but that is what they are.

    Stan

  7. Stan, thanks for your response.

    Like so many Jews I was also very left wing – union shop steward, cared about the poor, the disenfranchised, the downtrodden, blah, blah,blah (still do,actually) – we were all raised on the same soap box, whether in New York or Montreal.

    The trouble is, Stan, the left doesn’t care about us – in fact, the left despises us.

    Do I believe in guilt by association? In some cases, yes. For example, Obama chose this particular church with this particular philosophy and this particular preacher. I understand that he wanted to integrate into the African American community – that he had no roots in the African American experience. But he could have chosen any church and he chose Trinity United.

    Now, it’s not as if they have a hidden agenda – as Rev. Wright says, it’s all there on their website. Or you can watch the videos of Wright’s sermons. Nope, no surprise here.

    So really, Stan, I fail to understand how American Jews simply dismiss the fact the Obama attended services at Wright’s church for 20 years and that he brought his children to this church and exposed them to a weekly tirade of racism, hatred, and hypocrisy.

    Speaking of hypocrisy, let me share a bit of one of my favourite Wright hypocrisies . In this video (available on utube) Rev. Wright is ranting on and on about Israel and at one point he does a dramatic, “Black people get reeeeeeeeeeeeeeal scared when they hear the word………….Israel”. And then he stops, he mops his weary brow, he looks around… and the cheering and whatever breaks out from all corners of the congregation. They love it. But I have to tell you it made me think.

    It made me think that African American people should get alot more scared when they hear the words “Southern Sudan” – where Black Africans are still captured by Arabs and sold into slavery http://www.iheu.org/node/1539 Or maybe the word Darfur. That word scares alot of people. Black Muslim Africans in Darfur are being systematically raped and murdered by the hundreds of thousands – a kind of combined get more oil land, mixed with ethnic cleansing. And who is doing this raping and killing? Why it’s Darfur’s Muslim Arab minority. (I guess that’s why John Kerry thinks Obama will be successful at neotiating with the Arabs – they have such respect for Black people)

    But I digress. So how is it that Rev. Wright rants on and on about Israel -and never mentions Sudan or Darfur. Doesn’t it bother him and his buddy Louis F. that Black Muslims are being raped and murdered by the thousands and Black Christians are being sold into slavery (or raped or murdered)?

    Trinity United’s statement of faith is very clear. “We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization”. Really.

    So how to explain that Obama sat through years of anti-Israel, anti-semitic, anti-white, totally un-Christian spewing of hatred and total disregard for the church’s statement of faith…this is 20 years, now…and still publicly honoured this man and his church… until political expediency forced him to kiss Wright good-bye.

    Now some might say that he showed great loyalty to his old friend and mentor by trying to downplay or justify Wright’s tirades.

    But why would Obama choose a man like this for a mentor and why would he attempt to protect him from the contempt he deserves?

    Obviously, if he saw him as a mentor (Obama’s title, not mine) he admired and respected him and his values. As for why he dumped him – well, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, as they say.

    So again I have to ask you – how is it that this is the man who New York Jews endorse?

  8. So, did ANYBODY see the AIPAC speech Obama gave? Because if you did, I wouldn’t be seeing garbage on this page.

    Oh, and Canada, Trinity UCC had something Obama was looking for: a sense of community. I’m not really sure that could be said for many other black churches in Chicago. As it is, you have to remember that the black-church culture is much different from the white-church culture, especially in that the pastors do engage on prophesying and talk provocatively, in an almost Pentecostal-like manner. I would be hard-pressed to find a black preacher who doesn’t have a little Jeremiah Wright in him.

  9. I do not defend Wright, and am concerned about his association with Obama. I have friends and close associates that are Bush supporters whom I admire for other reasons. You ignored my examples of Bush and Novak and the fact that even Israeli prime ministers have called terrorists like Arafat and Abbas peace partners.
    The association of Wright and and Obama is disturbing when taken alone. Put in the context of Obama’s strong support of Israel, I look at it as an instance of bad judgment. I would never claim that he or any other candidate is perfect. I challenge you to look at his senate record and public statements before and after his announcement of running for president and show me how he would not be considered a strong supporter of Israel.
    Just a few links of interest.
    Here is a link to a delusional left website, and what they think of Obama on Iran.
    http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1103

    Its good to go back before the presidential campaign to see the true beliefs
    http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/7521.htm

    In answering my challenge, I would only ask you to not take anything out of context, and cite your sources.

    Stan

  10. You can’t take Obamas’ association with Wright and chalk it off because he says he supports Israel. Thats Naive and illogical.
    He was a member of that church for a very long time and he only left it when it became an inconvenience to him.

    Thats not bad judgement, for that length of time it’s a concious decision. It’s not like there is only one church in the USA so you either approve of the message or you find yourself a new preacher.

    Politicians are always the same. What they say and what they do are usually unrelated. If Obama gets voted in it’s only a matter of time before his mask slips a little further.

  11. Stan, I am sorry – I wasn’t ignoring your Novak/Bush examples – or your comments about the Christian right. I just thought I had talked enough – let me look through all these sites and get back to you.

    Joshua, as I mentioned, I understand that Obama was looking to find a place in the African American community – I just don’t think it had to be Trinity United.

    I know that black churches have very charismatic preachers – and great gospel choirs, if I may say so – in this case, though it wasn’t how Wright said it – it was what he said.

  12. Joshua Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am

    So, did ANYBODY see the AIPAC speech Obama gave? Because if you did, I wouldn’t be seeing garbage on this page.

    The same old trash. Someone had a great comment there that hits the spot:

    So far, he’s backpedaled on –
    Wright
    Rezko
    Ayers
    an Iran meeting
    Trinity
    the surge
    Cuba
    public campaign financing
    marijuana legalization
    PAYGO
    NAFTA
    Iranian Revolutionary Guards
    the Iran threat
    the Patriot Act
    ethanol
    North Korea
    flag pins

    And now, Jerusalem. He’s moving backward so fast that the rotation of the earth will be affected soon, and he’ll reverse time, just like Superman.

    Laura on June 5, 2008 at 10:41 PM

    Indeed, naive liberals, as always. And I’m no fan of Bush nor McCain. I still remember the US Democratic Party before it resembled Israel’s Meretz Party.

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