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I happened to get the opportunity to watch the DVDs of Season 7 of the West Wing - which I had never seen before. (Watched the first six seasons on television & again when I watched the entire boxed set).
I have to say, the coincidental timing of watching West Wing Season 7 at the same time as Election 2008 news reports, debates and talk show appearances is the most bizarre experience of "life imitating art" that I have ever experienced.
The parallels between Season 7 and the current US Presidential Election campaigns are uncanny - on the surface you might even say they are prophetic.
Obama is Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits). The older McCain is the older Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) sans botox. McCain is pro nuclear as is Vinick. All face are fairly large crisis during the campaigns (except that it's a nuclear accident in the West Wing - rather than the collapse of the economy). It goes on and on. Yeah - I know - and the incumbents are from different sides of the fence.
I'm beginning to see more merit in Adam Curry's claims that the whole (real) Presidential Election is just written by script writers.
Pity Jed Bartlett wasn't the president for the last 8 years instead of George W.
Anyhow - I'm up to Episode 16 - which is the first Election episode. Maybe if I watch Episode 17 I'll find out who will win Election 2008?
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- Posted by Campbell M on October 17, 2008
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