Quote: First Amongst Daves said: And I generally think its a cop-out to depict the president of the US as not being George Bush. The Losers has some grey-haired portly chap who authorised Max to keep the world safe for democracy: the final issues of Millar's Authority had a balding man who had Seth shacked up in the White house with underaged kids as sex toys. Only Ultimates has Bush as President, and they do it well.
I think it was Bush originally. Remember that arc was written pre-9/11 but published immediately afterward and DC heavily edited it and even created a filler-arc to allow the finale issues to be re-done. I think in general its also avoided because it can date the book and also may seem politically biased if any criticism is shown.
That's true, but if you're going to degrade the office, you may as well have the balls to degrade the office holder.
