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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1448646" data-attributes="member: 8439">I don't get that from the show at all. The president is a major nerd who likes to wax tangental, but he's not from harvard, in fact he isn't even Ivy League*. (though the only reason I can get my husband to watch once in a while I think is to see the POTUS in a ND sweatshirt.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) They were smarter than the guy who ran against the president in the second election, but hey, who isn't? There is a little bit of old boy networking, usually with those outside the whitehouse, but hardly a stream of "backslapping allusion to days at harvard"... And they regularly run into supporting or guest characters who are smarter than them either intellectually or tacticly. Then I think about elitist moments on the west wing, the only one that truely springs to mind is Toby writing the second inagural without Sam and declaring that there are only some tiny number of people in the world that can do his job. And that was a great bit, imo.Anyway, I went to school with the sort of people you seem to be describing, and if I saw that when I watched the west wing, I wouldn't be watching it. Luckily, I don't get that vibe at all, but if you do, I hope it doesn't ruin the show for you - it would for me.  :\ *thinking of the bit during the election where a white house counsul is ranting about the ivy league president and Sam tells her what leagues they actually play in - big east for basketball and independant for football, I think.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  But yeah, it takes brains to go there and I suspect bartlet wasn't even a legacy...Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

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