generalfrevious said:
I hope not.

Anyways, the whole political (republican/democrat) implications of SW was not there until Lucas started writing the script for ROTS in 2004; that's why Palpatine appears to be a shrewder version of Bush in space. Yeah, I cant even understand why the lightsabers turn from red to pink in the transition from ROTS to SW, unless you factor in technical errors.

I disagree. The Empire's rise was clearly very political from the start (I think Lucas said he was partly inspired by the Watergate era). And even when TPM came out, Palpatine was already doing the same shtick he would do in ROTS. Even back to the 1970's drafts, Lucas listed as one of the downfalls of the Republic to be the rising power of Robber Barons (The Trade Federation?). The Star Wars saga was always very political, it was just in the background in the OT, and in the PT was a bit clunky in the execution.

I disagree with the idea of Palpy or the Empire as a Bush analogue, but he was always the shrewd politician.