Is George Bush Batman?

Andrew Klavan, of the Wall Street Journal, wrote an interesting piece entitled What Bush and Batman Have in Common.

Is the comparison between President Bush and Batman accurate? Does our interpretation of Batman’s actions depend on whether we Left leaning or Right leaning? Is the audiences’ veiled allegiance to Batman a silent understanding that in order for good to prevail it sometimes requires desperate measures?

Batman is a fictional character that has the comfort of a predetermined story. There is a beginning, a middle, and end that are all defined. Our leaders do not have that same luxury. The story unfolds before them, and there are no special effects, stuntmen, or rewrites helping the plot along. There are no super heroes, only ordinary men who do extraordinary things. How they are revered or vilified is left to the world, and depends less on the truth and more on the audiences’ point of view.