Comments on: Commander In Chief

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:09:20 +0000

Bryan: WTF is an “alky drugggie”? Do you know anything about substance abuse?

As for George Bush calling himself an alcoholic, maybe he should introduce his speeches by saying, “My name is George, and I’m an alcoholic and a President.”

By: JD

JD — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:09:16 +0000

bryan : I thought that the left prided itself on being the party of understanding and tolerance. Apparently your understanding and tolerance is only extended to those people that share your political ideology?

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:09:51 +0000

If it’s good enough for the real prez to be a alky druggie, it should be good enough for Sorkin.
Isn’t it interesting that Bush 43 has never called himself an “alcoholic” (after all, you never stop being one, even with 20 years on the wagon)?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:09:50 +0000

West Wing doesn t ever mince words about the fact that yes, President Bartlett is a Democrat and his opposition is Republican and Dems are good and Republicans are bad.

I disagree; I think West Wing showed more interestingly shaded Democrats and Republicans than that. It wasn’t always black and white, Democrats good, Republicans bad.

And to the guy who made the comic remark about Sorkin’s drug bust: Did ‘shrooms and wrote West Wing, Sports Night and The American President?

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, get me the name of his dealer.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:09:32 +0000

“How about a game of solitaire?”

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:09:24 +0000

What amovie that would make! =:-)

Especially if she were prebiously brainwashed to assassinate herself when she gets orders from someone carrying a deckof cards…

By: PSU94

PSU94 — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:09:55 +0000

I think it would be really cool if, early in the series, Geena Davis all of a sudden realizes that she’s not really who she thinks she is, that she’s actually a lethal assassin that had temporarily lost her memory.

then, along with Chief of Staff Samuel L Jackson, they embark on a journey to find out who’s trying to kill her.

By: dugger1

dugger1 — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:09:50 +0000

Ha. Ha.

“West Wing doesn t ever mince words about the fact that yes, President Bartlett is a Democrat and his opposition is Republican and Dems are good and Republicans are bad.”

Come back Kitty! Come back kitty. Get back in that d*mn bag! Now, who…

Dugger

By: PSU94

PSU94 — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:09:05 +0000

That show is nowhere close to Sorkin-era “West Wing” quality.

Maybe they need to get their writers to start smoking ‘shrooms and also have every, single conversation that takes place in the White House occur between two people briskly walking down a hallway.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:09:17 +0000

“West Wing doesn t ever mince words about the fact that yes, President Bartlett is a Democrat and his opposition is Republican and Dems are good and Republicans are bad. CiC could have done the inverse and still have a good show, but instead they took the weasel way out.”

You’re right about one thing, Oliver: They took the weasel way out.

As for the rest of it (CiC could have done the inverse) — that (what you call “nonexistent”) left wing bias makes that damn near genetically impossible. You might as well ask them to make the President an extremely intelligent southern black woman — like, say, Condoleezza Rice!

Yuk,yuk!