Bartlet también apoya a Obama

Colin Powell apoya ahora a Obama. Ahora. Aaron Sorkin ha imaginado un diálogo entre Bartlet y Obama, cuando el candidato se acerca al Presidente ficticio para pedirle consejo. Entre sarcasmos y desplantes made in Sorkin, como llamar a la paleta Palin a Lancome rep who thinks "The Flinstones" was based on a true story.

OBAMA So what about hope? Chuck it for outrage and put-downs?

BARTLET No. You’re elite, you can do both. Four weeks ago you had the best week of your campaign, followed — granted, inexplicably — by the worst week of your campaign. And you’re still in a statistical dead heat. You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.

OBAMA Wait, what is it you always used to say? When you hit a bump on the show and your people were down and frustrated? You’d give them a pep talk and then you’d always end it with something. What was it ...?

BARTLET “Break’s over.”

PD. Los sucesores de Bartlet en la ficción y en la realidad: Matt Santos (Jimmy Cifuentes) y Barack Obama