Obama To Appear In Spiderman Comic
Well, the left already idolizes him as a super hero (get the action figure!), so why not?
WASHINGTON (AP) – Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.
Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a “shout-out back” by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief.
“How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in chief,” Quesada said. “It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We’re all thrilled with that.”
The comic starts with Spider-Man’s alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.
Parker decides “the future president’s gonna need Spider-Man,” and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor.
Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.
All joking aside, Americans aren’t supposed to worship their political leaders. They are to be citizens like the rest of us elevated to power by our consent, not supreme beings surrounded by a cult of personality.
Cameo appearances in comic books may seem harmless, but I think it’s dangerous to idolize political leaders.
Of course, I’m also the guy made a little uncomfortable by the right’s worship of Reagan too. I mean, he was a great leader who accomplished a lot of good things, but he wasn’t perfect. And neither is Obama.
