Jed Bartlet Is My President, But Not Martin Sheen

The famous actor visited anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's camp in Crawford, Texas. CenterFeud, a moderate blog, comments on their meeting: "But President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet is a Bible-quoting liberal Democrat from New Hampshire, not a left-wing activist from Hollywood, and would never be seen sharing a stage with a figure whose extreme rhetoric about America being a terrorist nation that is sending its sons to die for oil and Israel has drawn support from the likes of David Duke and neo-Nazis. The Jed Bartlet I know would have a thing or two to say to a fellow American who considers the people killing our soliders in Iraq 'freedom fighters'. But Martin Sheen is happy to gloss over these issues because he is against the Iraq war. And he is not Jed Bartlet....If the Democrats acted in real life the way they do in The West Wing, they'd be a force to be reckoned with instead of a party on the ropes. If Martin Sheen adopted Jed Bartlet's principles instead of those of Michael Moore, he'd visit Cindy Sheehan and tell her to speak out against the war but cool the inflammatory rhetoric and distance herself from fringe elements. Maybe both need to get West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to write their lines."