The American presidential election (20)
I am a huge fan of the American television series “The West Wing”. I have seen every episode of the seven series and viewed the first five series twice. Now, in the last two series, we see the non-white character Matt Santos win the Democratic candidacy and then the Presidency itself.
One cannot help but be reminded of this narrative as one watches the astonishing rise and rise of Barack Obama. So it’s fascinating to learn in this article that the scriptwriter for this section of “The West Wing” partially modelled the character on Obama.
As the piece puts it: “The result is a bizarre case of art imitating life – only for life to imitate art back again.”