“”When the West Wing scriptwriters first devised their fictitious presidential candidate in the late summer of 2004, they modelled him in part on a young Illinois politician—not yet even a US senator—by the name of Barack Obama.
“”When the West Wing scriptwriters first devised their fictitious presidential candidate in the late summer of 2004, they modelled him in part on a young Illinois politician—not yet even a US senator—by the name of Barack Obama.