The Spiderman and Barack Obama story is rolling around the Internet.  Good for ratings, you’d think.  Apparently The Chameleon is out to stop Barack Obama from being president.  I don’t know how this plot runs — I think it starts with The Chameleon joining up with that group trying to get Obama disqualified for a forged birth certificate.  After that… this story synopsis has to be a joke, right?

The comic starts with Spider-Man’s alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.
Parker decides “the future president’s gonna need Spider-Man,” and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor.
Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.

I see that commenters at “newsbusters” have soused out the liberal bias here, and — the horror of these things — the edgy anti-hero Punisher had a threat against Bush.  The liberal slash is spelled out here:

just like I *knew* MTV would not be allowed to fail. A ten year old reading Spider Man today will, in eight years, be an indoctrinated voter for the Democrats. As a child he gets Nickelodeon and childrens books at Target stores trumpeting Democrats, they are the first product and viewpoint he sees. A teenager gets Spider Man, and MTV, Democrats giving him easy cop-outs to his emerging adulthood and identity issues and pander to his narcissim and impatience and hormonal imperatives. Comedy Central finishes up to the high school/college crowd into his voting career. 
the comic books are just to appeal to the illiterate, the unaware of larger social issues and history, much like ACORN appealed to the homeless, as well as the prison pedo/pimp/pusher crowd. 

The bias against how comic books historically portray Democratic presidents versus Republican presidents is so pronounced, and what else do you need to see except this:

… which, given a choice between Spiderman / Obama and Scaly Orange Aliens / Nixon, I think I’d prefer the latter.  Which, incidentally, given the Comics Code Authority provisions, there is no other way to depict him:

Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.

Missed one, though:

I can recall the Challengers of the Unknown in their eponymous comic book saving Henry Kissinger in the Bermuda Triangle during the mid’70s. Kissinger wasn’t even a monster in it, but was given the proper respect he deserved, too.

Proper respect for Kissinger. 

At any rate, if you’re fuming over liberal bias in comic books, there are outlets from both the Reagan Era and the Bush Era.  So there.

UPDATE:  Here’s how Superman dealt with John F Kennedy:

So there.

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