Breaking from the script, 23/11/08, Chris Doidge's Blog

November 23, 2008

Breaking from the script

I thought Barack Obama was supposed to be The West Wing v.2? I mean, he even appointed Josh Lyman as his Chief of Staff.

Now he’s got elected, the script’s got jumbled up.

His weekly radio address yesterday was headlined:

Obama seeks to create 2.5m jobs

Come on, neither Jed Bartlet nor Matthew Santos were centrists, but they knew full well the adage that governments don’t create jobs, businesses do.

Has the U.S. gone socialist overnight?

: 23 Nov 2008 09:00 | Tags: Barack Obama Economy Politics The West Wing United States | Comments (1) | Report a problem

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They can make them Wikipedia editors, that’ll keep a few people out of trouble and it’s far healthier than World of Warcraft.

23 Nov 2008, 19:34

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