ever notice how the presidency ages people? 

This Just In--Darth Rove Unmasked

The Sith are coming, or are they already here? Agreeing with that remarkably perceptive piece in the SF Chronicle,
various other voices quoted by the Washington Post:

The Empire Strikes Bush

UPDATE 5/19
from the New York Times:

¶Conservative Web logs were lacerating Mr. Lucas over the film's perceived jabs at President Bush - as when Anakin Skywalker, on his way to becoming the evil Darth Vader, warns, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," in an echo of Mr. Bush's post-9/11 ultimatum, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
¶A little-trafficked conservative Web site about film, Pabaah.com - for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood" - added Mr. Lucas to its list of boycotted entertainers, along with more than 200 others, including Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks.

Lucas in Cannes: " he went on to say that he had first devised the "Star Wars" story during the Vietnam War. "The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable," he told an appreciative audience."

In Other New...

The political message of Star Wars in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle.