What would President Bartlet think of Obama's White House?

For liberals, he was the last Democrat to serve in the White House before President Obama, the man who held together their dreams and hopes until the Republican actually serving in the Oval Office went back to Texas.

Now that President Bartlet of "The West Wing" fame is off the air, some are looking back nostalgically, wondering how the Obama White House stacks up against the Hollywood version.

The London Daily Guardian today offered its version, along with a road map to where staffers will sit in the new Obama White House.

This much is clear: Allison Janney (C.J. Cregg) is taller than Robert Gibbs. And Rahm Emanuel is a  different generation from John Spencer (Leo McGarry). But maybe his advice will be just as valued.

-- Johanna Neuman

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Photo credits: Rahn Emanuel and Barack Obama by Associated Press;   Martin Sheen and John Spencer in "West Wing" by NBC/Warner Brothers

Comments

[mark mauer]

The London Daily Guardian? What's that supposed to be? I guess it's not called the Manchester Guardian any longer, but I don't think they've changed the name to the London Daily Guardian...

And considering your topic you might have bothered noting Rahm Emanuel is widely regarded as the basis of the character of Josh Lyman in The West Wing, so the comparison would be more accurate with him rather than Leo McGarry