Santos IS Obama! Obama IS Santos!
November 11th, 2008
A great little vid on how Matt Santos, the Democratic candidate during the last season of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing (a favorite of mine) was based on Barack Obama. Of course, then Santos won the election, and 3 years later his real life counterpart followed suit. Who gets to be the real life Toby Zeigler? Because that kid is awesome. Link.

November 11th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
as you know, i’m basically obsessed with both the west wing and president-elect obama, so watching how the two have dove-tailed has been a dream come true.
also check out this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/barackobama.uselections2008?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
and this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html
November 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
um and also josh lyman character based on newly anointed chief of staff rahm emanuel! west wing is real!