After having a fun fest with watching “The West Wing” these past few weeks on BRAVO – I was amused when the New York Times released this promo spread from the magazine.
In reading through the article and looking at the photos, I wondered “Who are their counterparts in the Bartlet Administration?” And, after a liberal use of IMDB (thanks Amazon), some Photoshop and some heavy-duty HTMLing, I offer a scorecard from the first Bartlet Administration and (hopefully) the first Obama Administration.
Credits: all photos of Obama Staffers are from Nadav Kander and The West Wing (TWW) photos are either from the web in general or from IMDB. Click more to see the photo comparisons.
  | Obama Admin: Rahm Emanuel TWW Admin: Leo McGarity (played by John Spencer) | |
Chief of Staff | ||
   | Obama Admin: Jim Messina and Mona Sutphen TWW Admin: Josh Lyman (played by Bradley Whitford) | |
Deputy Chief of Staff | ||
  | Obama Admin: Ellen Moran TWW Admin: Toby Ziegler (played by Richard Schiff) | |
Communications Director | ||
  | Obama Admin: Danier Pfeiffer TWW Admin: Sam Seaborn (played by Rob Lowe) | |
Deputy Communications Director | ||
  | Obama Admin: Robert Gibbs TWW Admin: CJ Craig (played by Allison Janney) | |
Press Secretary | ||
   | Obama Admin: Gregory Craig TWW Admin: Oliver Babish (played by Oliver Pratt) and Lionel Tribbey (played by John Larroquette) | |
White House Counsel | ||
  | Obama Admin: James Jones TWW Admin: Nancy McNally (played by Anna Deavere Smith) | |
National Security Advisor | ||
  | Obama Admin: Reggie Love TWW Admin: Charlie Young (played by Dulé Hill) | |
President’s Personal Assistant/Body Man |
