I saw Jim Webb as Aragorn; Tolkein's single warrior who returns the people to their true nature when I wrote "A Time for Soldiers" about him on 5/3/06 (at http://quigleyblog.b...)

then what is Bush?  Grima Wormtongue?  The Mouth of Sauron?  An orc?

That's Japanese for "good morning."  So when Jim "Cincinnatus" Webb stepped outside on that fine spring morning, did he say Ohayou?

I was going to suggest "Chief Lemming" for Bush, and then I remembered -- the idea of lemmings rushing over a cliff was a Disney fable.  http://www.snopes.co...

So many images to think of when Bush's name comes up.

Mad Magazine had an issue of the Steward of Gondor being Bush and Kerry being the true King. I thought it was pretty spooky actually, as it somehow seemed to resonate synchronisity; the removal of the false king and the death of the true king after the fall of the two towers - after which Aragon leaves behind his "shadow nature" (Strider) and rises as Aragorn, the true king, awakening the timeless inner life of the people. And then that thing with Aragorn calling in the dead to help was really freaky, because that is how the witch women up here say the Red Sox won the World Series ( . . . during a full eclipse of the moon, no less!).

the Saturday Night Massacre as a plot by then-Secy of Transportation Claude Brinegar to become President.  The Mad mad conspiracy had Brinegar plotting the downfall of all the cabinet members one-by-one.

but Cincinnatus does pretty well describe the saga of Jim Webb's election. In Webb's case, there is an addition to the historic model of the citizen leaving his private life to answer a call to duty: "Seldom in this world of multi-million dollar campaigns do citizens of a particular region have the historic opportunity to affect such a difference on a national scale by their efforts" said the Falls Church News-Press, referring to the huge army of volunteers that worked to elect Mr. Webb, thus substituting people for money--- the exact opposite of George Allen's approach. Every single time Webb headquarters sent out a call for volunteers they poured out of the woodwork, any time, any place, wherever they were needed, to do whatever was asked for. So it can be said that these multitudes were Cincinnatus, each and every one answering the call to duty for their country, of their own volition.  Webb inspired an army of Cincinnati, and you don't get that kind of effort unless you have a genuine leader with an inspiring vision

I've always thought of Bush as Nero fiddling while Rome burned -- except this time it's the whole world burning, through endless war and unchecked global warming...