{"id":591,"date":"2007-05-14T23:40:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T23:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:25:04","slug":"an-extended-political-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"an extended political metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>now if we take the political truism: &quot;there could be no rebellion without darth vader&quot; and extend it to the current political climate, the person who plays the role of darth vader is too obvious to mention. <\/p>\n<p>the question then becomes, is barack obama a luke skywalker figure, and does his character arc between idealistic farmboy to cold-eyed jedi knight peak before or after the iowa caucus?<\/p>\n<p>is hillary clinton a princess leia or a grand moff tarkin?<\/p>\n<p>is john edwards more like biggs or wedge antilles? which is to say is he the eternal wingman or doomed to go down in flames?<\/p>\n<p>and is kucinich an admiral akbar, or is that a mere physical resemblance.<\/p>\n<p>discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>now if we take the political truism: &quot;there could be no rebellion without darth vader&quot; and extend it to the current political climate, the person who plays the role of darth vader is too obvious to mention. the question then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>an extended political metaphor - Zombie Lapdance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"an extended political metaphor - Zombie Lapdance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"now if we take the political truism: &quot;there could be no rebellion without darth vader&quot; and extend it to the current political climate, the person who plays the role of darth vader is too obvious to mention. the question then &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zombie Lapdance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-05-14T23:40:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-08-17T05:25:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mbey\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"0 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/\",\"name\":\"Zombie Lapdance\",\"description\":\"Matthew Bey Spills His Guts\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/\",\"name\":\"an extended political metaphor - Zombie Lapdance\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2007-05-14T23:40:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-08-17T05:25:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/#\/schema\/person\/8d790559a19b5597ebb69b7b744f4c4b\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/14\/an-extended-political-metaphor\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/#\/schema\/person\/8d790559a19b5597ebb69b7b744f4c4b\",\"name\":\"mbey\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0048e5e9430f44d486e786b687ccc04ae355c54158c186e99cf279e584940a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mbey\"},\"description\":\"Matthew is a writer and editor living in Austin, TX. 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