CBS Senior Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield was on today' Imus show. He likened President elect Obama's choices thus far as being "literally the last chapter of The West Wing."
Imus, contrarian, replied, "surely you're not suggesting (that his choices are like) a TV show."
"The parallels are striking."
Those parallels have been commented upon before. On the TV show, written by veteran Democrat insider Lawrence O'Donnell, featured, in the last season a plot line in which Jimmy Smits, playing Congressman Mark Santos with a thin resume, beat a veteran Republican pol played by Alan Alda. Smits' Santos promptly offered Alda's character Senator Arnold Vinnick a seat in his inner cabinet.
And Senator Obama, a candidate of change with a thin resume, has all but selected his primary opponent Senator Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
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