What would Bartlet say...?

Många av er har säkert redan sett det, men på New York Times ledarsida låter Aaron Sorkin sin skapelse Jed Bartlet komma till tals i en intressant dialog med Barack Obama. Bartlet ger bland annat Obama råd om hur Demokraterna ska kunna hantera anklagelser från Republikanerna om att vara ”the angry left”: Well ... let me think. ...We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know ... I’m a little angry. Han levererar också en fullständigt magnifik sågning av Sarah Palin: It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. Amerikanska tv-presidenter har onekligen bättre manusförfattare än sina verkliga motsvarigheter. Andra skriver intressant om politik, Barack Obama, Jed Bartlet.