Bartlet & Obama: together at last!
Admit it: for the last 8 years you've been wondering, What's going on? Isn't that smart, feisty, articulate Jed Bartlet supposed to be our real president? I have friends who are in complete denial and after the Republican convention simply locked themselves up with all 5 seasons of West Wing and refused to come out.
For all of us, then, there is the joyous news that Barack Obama & Jed Bartlet have had a meeting up in New Hampshire, in which (according to Maureen Dowd in the 9/20/08 NYTimes) "the Democratic ex-president ...offer[ed]...fatherly wisdom" - as transcribed by Aaron Sorkin. (Big thanks to my Cousin Els for alerting me to this!)
And if you don't click on through, I leave you with Sorkin's description of Palin as a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story. But really, you don't want to miss the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. . . . or the GET ANGRIER! peroration.
For all of us, then, there is the joyous news that Barack Obama & Jed Bartlet have had a meeting up in New Hampshire, in which (according to Maureen Dowd in the 9/20/08 NYTimes) "the Democratic ex-president ...offer[ed]...fatherly wisdom" - as transcribed by Aaron Sorkin. (Big thanks to my Cousin Els for alerting me to this!)
And if you don't click on through, I leave you with Sorkin's description of Palin as a Lancôme rep who thinks “The Flintstones” was based on a true story. But really, you don't want to miss the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. . . . or the GET ANGRIER! peroration.