Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk:
BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.
OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.
BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —
Like finding a lost episode of “The West Wing”, this has made my day.
[via Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times]