"From west wing to real thing"

[4themind]

Apologies if this was already posted but I found an article from the guardian that may be interesting
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/barackobama.uselections2008>
I guess sometimes life isn't stranger than fiction, it's just about the same, lol
Here's an excerpt;

"In the TV show, Santos begins as the rank outsider up against a national figure famous for standing at the side of a popular Democratic president. There are doubts about Santos's inexperience, having served just a few years in Congress, and about his ability to persuade voters to back an ethnic minority candidate - even as his own ethnic group harbour suspicions that he might not identify with them sufficiently.

But the soaring power of his rhetoric, his declaration that the old divisions belong in the past and his sheer magnetism, ensure that he comes from behind in a fiercely close primary campaign and draws level with his once all-commanding opponent. Every aspect of that storyline has come true for Barack Obama. Axelrod, now chief strategist for the Obama campaign, recently joked in an email to Attie: "We're living your scripts!"

What's more, the West Wing had the Republicans choose between a Christian preacher - a pre-echo of Mike Huckabee - and an older, maverick senator from the American west whose liberal positions on some issues had earned the distrust of the party's conservative base: a dead ringer for John McCain"

[Ilsa]

1. OMG! Life copies art! Too cool! nt

[xxqqqzme]

2. very interesting - that CA publican senator was

also pro-choice, as I recall.