Comic Politicos Make Me LMFAO!

Who knew comic book heroes would one day come swinging out of comic books and take on the role of muse too! And in this case, muse to a senior politician no less! Ah, the stress of coming up with bombastic things to say speech after speech after speech! The poor fellow must surely had run out of ideas that particular day. So what does he do? Turn to our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man’s long departed guardian – Uncle Ben!

A big function at a renowned school in the state capital. The audience comprising mostly of young, impressionable but restless minds. So the politician decides to make it short [three page-long speech is extremely short in our part of the world where, if given a chance, our politicians can go on and on like Duracell bunny] and sweet and relevant and announces “With Great Power also comes Great Responsibility”. The line somehow doesn’t gel too well with the rest of the speech. And he attributes the quote to ‘a Hollywood blockbuster’.

Does the dude even know the quote comes right off a Spider-Man comic book? The irony here is that the name ‘Spider-Man’ has an entirely different connotation in these parts. There are not many comic book readers here and when you say Spider-Man, the first image that will come to many minds here is not that of a vigilante superhero but of an infamous ‘wall-scaling thief turned cold-blooded murderer’ who’s currently serving time in the state jail.

Suffice to say here that with great power to make high-sounding speeches also comes the great responsibility of doing proper homework.