When Charlie is driven the crazy by President who’s searching for the perfect carving knife, only to find out it’s because Bartlet is giving him his family’s knife...

Tell me about it, I’ve been quoting the show a lot on this thread and haven’t had to look up anything, it’s all from memory

Abby was great, like the president she was originally supposed to be a very minor character but was too awesome to keep that way. Amy and Joey were both great, and Ainsley cut Sam down better than any other character. Nancy was steel, I thought her and John Amos were great in scenes together- though I always laugh…

I thought he did well on Sports Night, but I’m biased because I really like Dana and Natalie as characters.

I don’t understand the knock on Sorkin in regards to female characters (pre-Newsroom I mean, because that was afwul, though I didn’t think any characters were great on that). Of course, I don’t want to debate someone with a background in maritime law.

I don’t disagree that it would be a diplomatic disaster and she’d absolutely be called on the carpet and made to publicly apologize. But the physics of Sorkin’s universe are different, and the righteousness of one’s rant is inversely proportional to the consequences they suffer. The West Wing had great political…

My daughter thinks I thought that up, I worry she will be disillusioned with me if she watches West Wing and Sports Night and realizes that I have cribbed a fair amount of early Sorkin. Leo was so great, West Wing was so great because of relationships. Leo and Josh, Leo and the President (“Do you have a best friend?…

All these years later and this still always gives me goose bumps. The entire staff was wish fulfillment but C.J. was the best!

You’re probably right about it being due to increased wait time, because I imagine they are rarely used for relaxing or an extended tete-a-tete.

“Oh Jackie, it’s been fun catching up, and thanks for showing me the pictures of the kids, but I just remembered we are in a bathroom so why don’t we go ahead outside.”

This isn’t about a straw feminist but rather a hilariously bad argument I heard recently, I hope you don’t mind but had to share this. My wife and I were doing date night (typing that just officially made me middle aged) and there was a first date taking place next to us. It was a hilarious disaster that included him…

My synagogue. I remember when I was about 10 and found out the women’s room had one. Us guys talked about it for a minute and said “they’re so lucky” and then thought about it...did we really want to sit in a men’s room longer than we had to? And as you mention, did we want to sit on something that stays in a men’s…

You were being a jerk so I compared you to jerks. The nazis were not a group of assholes, they were a group of murderers who murdered 6 million Jews and around 11 total human beings. If you can’t see the difference between the tea party, who are bad, and the nazis, who committed genocide, then you really need to look…

Except that’s a reference to the nazis which makes you basically a tea party assholes. Like those oh so clever Obama is Hitler sign-holders, unable to make your point without using despicable comparisons.

I assume it’ll be her husband or President Obama. I just mean if he’s a man of his word he is a Democrat now, and he needs to show it big time at the convention.

Moments like that exemplify why so many of us respect her, and why the party can so easily wrap its arms around her. She was absolutely amazing.

I’ve never cursed at a commenter because most here are adults who have conversations, fuck you with your “goosestepper” bullshit. Good, be just as ugly and despicable as tea partiers with your nazi comparisons, this is why Sanders has had to apologize for his supporters multiple times

Of course he does. He was not a member formally but was allowed to run as a Democrat, he benefited greatly because of that in terms of fundraising and platform, which he’s admitted to. But that aside his campaign said he is a Democrat for life, and if you are a member of a party you support them.

I absolutely think Congress is more important, the President doesn’t have nearly the domestic impact, by design of course. It drives me crazy that people don’t understand the importance of congressional and statewide elections, which in terms of day to day life I think also have more impact than the White House. The…

My thing is, people are right that there was anger when she lost the nomination in ‘08, but then she gave the amazing “millions of cracks in the glass ceiling” speech and introduced him at the convention in the ultimate display of party unity. I also don’t believe we’ll get anything close to that, but something at the…

It’s why we get killed in mid-term elections, president is the sexy race even though the legislative branch is so important. We’re so quick to pull good people out of important roles, it’s why I can live with Elizabeth Warren not running, we need her where she is, fighting the good fight.