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Wordsmith Dick Cheney as Lord Voldemort? (7) Dick Cheney as Lord Voldemort? 09 Feb 07

In Sunday's New York Times OP-ED page (02-04-07,) there was an article by Nicholas D. Kristof entitled "Under Bush's Pillow." It starts out by talking about a reader named Melissa, who explains Iraq policy to her 8-year-old son using Harry Potter characters: "Dick Cheney is Lord Voldemort, George W. Bush is Peter Pettigrew, Don Rumsfeld is/was Lucius Malfoy. Cornelius Fudge represents admin. supporters who deny anything is wrong, while Rita Skeeter is Fox News. The article then goes on to cite other examples that readers have submitted along literary lines. Ahab, anyone?
Anyone interested can submit their own literary take at nytimes.com/ontheground
I have to admit, I got quite a laugh when I first read it. BTW, I tested the link, and it doesn't work.
    When posting links, the URL has to be in this format: http://nytimes.com/ontheground - you need the http:// or else Mudcat looks on it as an internal link within Mudcat. Thanks to SRS for finding the error.
    -Joe Offer-

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