Despite the somewhat shaky nature of Studio 60 and the what happened to the West Wing when he got all coked up and had to leave… I love Aaron Sorkin. He’s probably my favorite Hollywood writer and the sheer force of oratory that he can write for his characters can leave me weak in my knees.<\/p>\n
Recently as part of an interview (with the New York Times I believe, but they charge to read their archives so I can’t read the whole thing) Sorkin gave us a glimpse of how he thinks President Josiah Bartlet would knock some sense into Barrack Obama.<\/p>\n
Here’s a choice excerpt:<\/p>\n
BARTLET: <\/span>\u00a0GET ANGRIER<\/span>! Call them liars, because that\u2019s what they are. Sarah Palin didn\u2019t say \u201cthanks but no thanks\u201d to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said \u201cThanks.\u201d You were raised by a single mother on food stamps \u2014 where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I\u2019d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you\u2019re at it, I want the word \u201cpatriot\u201d back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn\u2019t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can\u2019t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie \u2014 the truth isn\u2019t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they\u2019ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It\u2019s 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\u2019s not bad enough she\u2019s 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\u2019s not enough that a woman shouldn\u2019t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist\u2019s baby too? I don\u2019t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she\u2019s got the qualifications of one. And you\u2019re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required<\/span> to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called<\/span> for!<\/em><\/p>\n God… this says what I want to perfectly that I’ll just leave it at that, except to say this. If you’re a woman, and you vote republican simply because of Sarah Palin, you are a moron. You’d vote for a woman who doesn’t believe in any real feminist issues and in fact wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and believes that abstinence only should still be taught in schools (nevermind that her daughter got knocked up.) Hillary was a self serving wench who got closer to getting the nomination than she had a right to. Having a man of colour in the oval office is at the very least equally as important as having a woman there. Don’t sacrifice your beliefs just to have a woman there. Wait til next time and a solid viable candidate (Nancy Pelosi maybe?,) because Joe Biden won’t get the nomination even if Obama goes 2 terms.<\/p>\n For funsies I recommend you check out Sarah Haskins<\/a>\u00a0over at the current… her consistently awesome Target Women<\/a> segment did a Sarah Palin profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the somewhat shaky nature of Studio 60 and the what happened to the West Wing when he got all coked up and had to leave… I love Aaron Sorkin. 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