"a west wing president"?

[thatotherperv]

you know how sometimes people say someone is "a real West-Wing president"? that is opposed to...what? I mean, aren't they *all* WW presidents, given where the Oval Office is? you never hear anyone say someone's an *East* wing president, but then I think the EW is just the mansion, so that wouldn't make any sense to me anyway.

it's one of those phrases that I've never really been able to give meaning to.

Comments

[elisi]

Mostly, I figure they're referring to the TV show, so a Bartlett-like President.

[mistress-tien.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that phrase, but my first thought is that they are saying "A real West Wing president" as in the show The West Wing.

I stopped watching the show when the shrub was making so many bad mistakes--the show made me ache for a president who was intelligent and wanted intelligent people around him. Since the changing of the guard I'm considering going back and rewatching The West Wing. It was a spectacular show.

[spikesgurl.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of the phrase as referring to a President who really spends a lot of time hard at work in the Wests Wing, and not off galavanting elsewhere (*cough*Texas*cough*)... but I have no idea if that's accurate :)

Btw, the East Wing is a wing unto itself, not just the mansion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wing

And now I *really* want to watch The West Wing again!

[laisserais]

lol, damn, everyone already stole my thunder. i was gonna say: maybe it's a president who can solve an international crisis in 40 minutes flat? but apparently there's an actual definition. hm

*SMISH* i iz thinkin of YOOOOOO

[ithinkitisayit.livejournal.com]

I call third on a West Wing President referring to the TV show.