I feel like i'm reading an episode of The West Wing

I was just reading Barack Obama’s speech from the other night. It is quite good, but i was having a moment of cognitive dissonance, where i suddenly felt that i was in an episode of The West Wing. I think many people loved the imaginary President Jed Bartlet, played to perfection by Martin Sheen. Anyway, parts of this speech made me think of the way his character spoke, and evoked some of the “wouldn’t it be great if there really was someone like this in office” feelings, and then i realized, shocked, this is a real guy. And he might win. And things might change.

We can only continue to hope.