West Wing Titles - Barack Obama (The Real West Wing), Year 1

Watch the new version for 2010!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJPk3TmSzw

What if Obama's administration was put to the theme of The West Wing? Well, now you can find out!

100,000+ views, thanks for watching!!!

Original: Happy New Year to those of you waiting for this new intro - just in time for the inauguration on Janurary 20!

I just thought this little mashup was a fun idea - I'm not trying to push a political agenda here! I just thought it'd be fun to imagine if we were to see the grandure of the idealistic "West Wing" in real life.

This was shown on CNN's Showbiz Tonight!!
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/01/17/sbt.seg.01.16.cnn
about 1:34 into the video.
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What if Barack Obama's top advisors were part of the show The West Wing? As promised, a new video introduction of senior White House advisors, in the style of the tv show, The West Wing. This is a follow up to "The Campaign Trail," which featured top advisors from the 2008 Presidential Election in a West Wing style opening credits, which you can watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhCIYo_jXM

Now, we have the "Real West Wing." In this video, we have [with their TV counterparts]:

David Axelrod - Senior Advisor
Joe Biden - Vice President [Hoynes/Russell]
Rahm Emanuel - Chief of Staff [Leo McGarry]
Robert Gibbs - White House Press Secretarty [CJ Cregg]
Valerie Jarrett - Senior Advisor, Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs, Public Liason
Jim Messina - Deputy Chief of Staff [Josh Lyman]
Ellen Moran - Communications Director [Toby Ziegler]
Michelle Obama - First Lady [Abbey Bartlet]
Mona Sutphen - Depty Chief of Staff [Josh Lyman]
Barack Obama - President of the United States [Jed Bartlet - or maybe closer to Matt Santos!]

For all the people wondering why Hilary Clinton isn't in here (or any other cabinet members and secretaries), I was thinking about it, but ultimately decided to do it like the show "The West Wing," focusing on the behind the scenes White House staffers rather than cabinet-level members of the government. There were other people I would have liked to feature as well, but there was a lack of pictures or videos of those people.
I was compelled to make one of the cabinet - but with 14 positions (plus Obama makes 15), that leaves 3 seconds for each person - which wouldn't be enough to make a quality video.

And I found out that it was shown on MSNBC on Jan. 6, 2009! Thanks to them for showing (and I'd really appreciate it if anyone has a video of it on TV, if they could post it!)
Also shown on "Showbiz Tonight" on CNN HN/HLN, Janurary 16, 2009. If anyone has a vid of this, I'd appreciate it too!

*Information was up to date as of December 30, 2008, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_transition

This wonderful theme is the work of W.G. Snuffy Walden, whose official website is here:
http://www.wgsnuffywalden.com/

The West Wing belongs to Warner Bros. Television and NBC Universal.

Thank you to Ben Smith for posting a link to this video on Politico!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Remainders_Happy_2009.html

*Comments and constructive criticism are welcome, but if we all behave like kids and have to resort to hiding behind computers to throw insults at each other, then our comments really aren't necessary.

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[TheZodiacPrincess]

30 people are pissed they won't be seeing Sarah Palin in this montage.

[trovaa1]

I'm no Obama fan, but I have to say this video is well put together. Good Job.

[aModernDandy]

Reminds me of back when I was still enthusiastic about Obama...

[scorpianboy211]

wat rubbish..where hillary? she is the main reason why obama could claim party unity even after a poor economic record..

[toddsmitts]

Okay I know why you didn't include Hillary Clinton or other cabinet members, but I was puzzled that you included Joe Biden, when neither vice-president was a regular character on the West Wing (unless you count Leo, who was only elected posthumously).

[darkstarownzu]

@democrat10 meh .. let Bartlet be Bartlet ;-o)

[MrAllad]

well done

[fanpiredr]

AW-SOME!!



[trinitymike]

@Zackattack52287 Just kike you cue "Dueling Banjoes" when showing old home movies?

[12Michael19]

This is a really awesome video!!! @grapesofwraith1066, you should make one for the Kennedy administration!!

[AnimalMadEng]

Nicely done :)

[whtwuzhzothrlegnamed]

Great stuff! Well done, as youtube stuff goes...