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I was listening to a radio show called The Young Turks and they were tossing around the idea of Dick Cheney playing the Penguin in the next Batman movie. So I got to thinking:


John Edwards, as millionaire Bruce Wayne
"I'm Batman"










Dennis Kucinich, Robin, the Boy Wonder
"Holy war on Islam, Batman!"










Dick Cheney, The Penguin
"Nyaaaaat. Nyat nyat."










Donald Rumsfeld, ? The Riddler ?
"There are known knowns. These are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, these are things that we know that we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know."









Karl Rove, The Joker
"Let's put a dead hooker in there somewhere."










Tony Snow's a good Two-Face ...
"I need to get a more precise definition."
--asked to define civil rights after he said banning gay marriage was a civil rights issue


... but central casting is really pushing Victor Yushenko for that role.
(Two-Face a.k.a. Too-Easy)







Nouri al-Malaki, Commissioner Gordon
"Send up the Bat Signal!"








Al Gore, Alfred











Condi Rice, Catwoman (sorry Halle)











Barack Obama, Mr. Clean
(not actually a Batman character, but it's topical)







George W Bush, King Tut
"I'm Tut! Master of Thieves, King of the Nile. And that's just on Mama's side of the family."

[Ed. note: we chose King Tut because he was a minor villian, but we are also considering casting Mr. Bush as Henchman #2]






and Arnold Schwarztnegger returns, as Mr. Freeze

"We have to make sure everone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!" --on unemployment

"The public doesn't care about figures." --on economics

"Don't worry about that." --on the environment