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...another campaign heating up, everything old is new again. But, as Sunday’s episode, “The Al Smith Dinner,” made clear, we’re not dealing with politics as usual this time around. Unlike the last campaign, in which President Bartlet squared off against obviously reprehensible Republican rival Ritchie, this campaign’s a bit more ambiguous. Don’t get me wrong, Democratic candidate Santos (Jimmy Smits) is great (you’ve gotta love those sweet close ups of hunky Jimmy spouting liberal ideology as the music crescendos...
...become complex and exciting. In its high-rated days, the show was an eloquent but simplistic fantasy. The presidential race between Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) and Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) has given it what it always lacked: a nuanced conflict between two flawed but empathetic opponents. (The Bartlet White House story lines seem like a distraction now.) Santos and Vinick square off for a live debate on Nov. 6--just in time for you to rejoin this political party...
...course President Bartlet on The West Wing is free to thus sully himself. Even on a show with a feminist premise, it seems, TV is not quite ready to treat powerful women as it treats powerful men. The show's creator, Rod Lurie, probably just meant to make Allen the enemy of politics as usual. But it's a rough message to send to Hillary--or Condi Rice or any other woman who will have to rely on politics as usual, not a contrived TV plot, to become President. And who faces the sexist paradox: if you get ahead...
...It’s a tradition of this show to end with a bang—so far Bartlet has had a very trying presidency,” said Goffman. “We’ve ended with an assassination, the President’s multiple sclerosis, a reelection, and a kidnapping in past years...
Mark Goffman seemed as articulate as his characters, especially when discussing the show’s ideals. “We’d like to think the president is always weighing what’s best for America, for the situation and for the administration, just as President Bartlet does,” said Goffman...