Man, Lucas is no doubt a lefty but I think your vitriol is a bit over the top. This storyline has been in place since 1976.
In the Journal of the Whills prologue from the original 1976 novelization of Star Wars, (then titled "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker") the following was written:
So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside.
Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.
Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.
According to my sources Bush hadn't even decided to run for pres at this time, though I may be mistaken.
Lucas based the Emperor and fall of the Republic more on Nazi Germany and Hitler's rise to power than anything else. Leftists (MSM) never fail to pounce on an opportunity to connect Bush to Hitler and this is what is happening here.
I agree with Savage_Nation, we need to boycott all "celebrity activists" of leftist-atheistic-communist sympathies. Now, of course that is hard to do since many, many actors and the like are leftist ninnies, but we can at least boycott the outspoken ones. I am upset with all who post here that put their interests in this movie ahead of their political and moral convictions.