- Daily Photo: Obama Jokes Around at G-20
- Blackwater gets replaced in Iraq
- Daily Photo: U.S. Marines Look Out for Taliban in Afghanistan
- Hillary Clinton the Tomboy and Her "Ah-Ha" Moment
- Obama Administration Sudan Envoy Headed to Region
- Daily Photo: Potential Flashpoint in Iraq
- Clinton Says New Afghanistan-Pakistan Plan Depends on Diplomacy
- Exclusive: Three Israeli Airstrikes Against Sudan
- Additional 4,000 Troops to Be Ordered to Afghanistan
- Daily Photo: Navy Submarine Trains in the Arctic
- Alarm Over North Korea Missile Prep
- Anti-Terror Stimulus? US Offers Rewards for Top Terrorists
- Daily Photo: Pakistani Women in Refugee Camp
- Condoleezza Rice Appears on "The Tonight Show"
- Diplomat and Aid Group Sound the Alarm on Darfur Camp Situation
- auto industry rescue
- Ballotwatch
- Biden, Joe
- Bush, George W.
- Clinton, Bill
- Clinton, Hillary
- Dodd, Chris
- Edwards, John
- Giuliani, Rudy
- Gravel, Mike
- Huckabee, Mike
- Hunter, Duncan
- Inauguration
- Iraq
- Kucinich, Dennis
- McCain, John
- Obama, Barack
- Palin, Sarah
- Paul, Ron
- Romney, Mitt
- Tancredo, Tom
- Thompson, Fred
- Veepstakes
- Vote 2008: Democrats
- Vote 2008: Republicans
- Washington
- White House
« Previous | Main | Next »
Biden Bags His Own West Winger
Email
ShareDecember 28, 2007 10:31 PM
ABC News' Brian Wheeler reports: The Democratic frontrunners may be squabbling over who among them has the support of more advisers from the Bill Clinton White House. But in the second tier, it's an entirely different fight, one involving the fictional inhabitants of an imaginary White House.
Gov. Bill Richardson, D-NM, has the endorsement of President Jeb Bartlett from the Emmy-winning show "The West Wing," better known to the world as actor and activist Martin Sheen. Sen. Joe Biden. D-Del., meanwhile has landed the endorsement of the fictional White House communications director to Sheen's president, actor Richard Schiff. And so the battle of the West Wingers is joined.
Schiff will stump for Biden at events over the next three days. Tonight at an event in Waterloo, Iowa, Schiff told ABC News that Joe Biden has "always impressed me as a truth-teller, someone with knowledge and experience. I want somebody who has the ability to tell me the truth, not because it's his obligation, but because he knows no other way. And that's Joe Biden."
Fans of Biden or The West Wing or both may be nonplussed to learn Schiff's character Toby Ziegler was indicted on the show for leaking classified NASA documents -- a plot line that mirrored the Scooter Libby indictment. President Bartlett in his munificence would later pardon Ziegler.
December 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Love Joe Biden!! Hoping for an OBAMA/BIDEN ticket!!
Posted by: Debbie | Dec 28, 2007 11:45:32 PM
The Martin Sheen character in West Wing was "Jed" Bartlet (with one "t," not rwo), not "Jeb Bartlett."
Posted by: Tom Wieder | Dec 29, 2007 11:49:04 AM
Post a comment
