Ok, who is the biggest blockbuster hero of the week?

Here is one clue – it is a six-letter word and it starts with B. Second letter is A

B A _ _ _ _

Alright, how many of you got Batman and how many got Barack? Either way the Dark Knight is definitely the media star of the week.

The Economist says an Obama spokesman summed up the trip’s implicit message simply: “When President Bush goes abroad, there are big crowds protesting. When I go abroad, there are big crowds cheering.”

Big crowds are cheering The Dark Knight too. USA Today says it’s the fastest movie to reach $200 million. This is according to Jeff Bock, an analyst at box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations – “a juggernaut.”

Here’s a recent headline from The Telegraph in the U.K. – US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain’.

Do a Google search on Barack Obama and juggernaut. That’s a lot of matches.

Which leads me to believe that Barack Obama’s secret identity is not a Muslim. He is really Batman.

Should we expect an Ich Bin Batman speech soon?

If you watched The Dark Knight there are clues in there aplenty that this is a film for an election year.

Remember the line about “People will lose hope.”

How about “We bet it all on him.”

Of course this does not make McCain the Joker. Though I bet he is hoping he is the “immovable object” to Obama’s “unstoppable force.” And latest poll numbers suggest in some states McCain’s numbers are moving up despite Obama’s Magical Mystery Tour.

Buried in there is even a warning about giving someone, no matter how appealing, unparalleled surveillance powers. Morgan Freeman voices that in the film but he is just a lonely voice of caution. After all the surveillance power is used for the greater good (just as we were promised the PATRIOT Act would be).

And if after all this Obama doesn’t win in November, (the polls are a lot closer than the media buzz) The Dark Knight has the perfect epitaph.

“He’s the hero (America) deserves but not the one it needs now.”