Mr. President, can you tell us right now if you’ll be seeking a second term?
God, this episode. It’s just…perfection.
- Charlie: Sir, I could do most of this myself.
- President Bartlet: I love doing this.
- Charlie: Really?
- President Bartlet: Yeah.
- Charlie: Filing tax returns?
- President Bartlet: Yeah!
- Charlie: Okay.
- President Bartlet: What?
- Charlie: I was just thinking about the plurality of Americans who made the decision to pull a lever that had your name next to it.
- President Bartlet: Suckers!
The West Wing - Season 2 Episode 3 - The Midterms
- Josh: I don't know, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a government that goes out of its way to protect even citizens that try to destroy it?
- Toby: God bless America.
Three years ago today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Where were you on Inauguration Day?
I was watching on a giant screen in the Newseum just down the street from the Capitol!
“… Because I’m tired of it: year after year after year after year having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low, I can hardly look at it. They say a good man can’t get elected President. I don’t believe that. Do you?”
MORE GREATNESS.
Today in my Liberal Democracy in America class, the professor joked that the way to solve the problem of ignorance in the electorate was to give political science majors two votes instead of one. He is definitely my favorite professor this semester.
