Thanks to Anita Stafursky, I got to re-watch a few minutes of the final episode.
 I've seen several articles about the last show, but nobody else pointed out that Bartlet
 started his sit-down with "You're a son of a bitch, you know that?"

 It's not that I'd get a charge out of hearing SOB on TV, but how remarkable that the President
 would call God an SOB and none of the reviewers thought that was worth a mention...

 Also, when Bartlet was talking to "Mrs. Landingham," she called his Daddy "a prick."
 That also failed to make the reviews.

  Sidebar:
 His Daddy was played by Lawrence O'Donnell, the ass from The McLaughlin group,
 who gets a "producer" credit on each West Wing episode, for some reason.
 Mrs Landingham was right, Jed's daddy was a monsterous prick.

 I know it's easy for me to sit here and say "I'd refuse to take that abuse from my dad,"
 but at least Bartlet could've thanked his dad for not smacking his face for expressing his
 second opinion the way he did the first. I grew up in a too-happy home, so I know nothing
 about child abuse, or Dad beating Mom etc. but I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna just stand there
 and take an unwarranted smack across my face from any son of a bitch once I was a grown man.

 A child has no choice but to accept being beaten unfairly, but there's no excuse for a grown man
 to take that kind of shit from anybody. Remember the stories about young Billy Clinton standing up
 to his drunken step-daddy? He warned him not to ever lay another hand on mom again, or that was his ass.
 That's how you handle a bullying asshole - just like Smirk should've handled China.
 

 Maybe the biggest part of the show that I failed to mention was the music during that dramatic conclusion.
 Someone said the song was "Brothers in Arms," but I've never heard it before, and didn't recognize the title.
 Who recorded that? Or is "Brothers in Arms" the group? If so, what's the name of the song?

 The guitar player was doing his best David Gilmore impression, and that's a good thing.
 It provided a floating, dreamlike canvas for Bartlet's iron-clad determination to ride on.

 In the limo, on the way to the speech, the camera showed a worried Leo's face, then panned to Bartlet's
 calm and forceful sense of destiny. When all the staffers were buzzing around Bartlet like bees,
 how could they not notice that zone their boss was in?

 Another part I missed, the part where clueless Leo finally figured it out, was when Bartlet intentionally
 called on the wrong reporter - so he'd get the tough question right up-front.  The reporter barked the question
 the staff had been fearing - "Will you run again?"  and Bartlet showed the balls that I wish at least a few
 Democrats would demonstrate when he said,
 "I'm sorry, there was a noise and I didn't quite hear your question. Could you repeat it, please?"

 That's when Leo finally figured out what was happening, and that's when he said, "Watch this!"
 The camera was still circling Bartlet's face as that "Comfortably Numb" guitar was wailing.

 In that 2-3 seconds, Leo was reminded that his boss was a fighter!
 In that 2-3 seconds, Leo realized that not only was Bartlet going to stay and fight, like a man, but that he
 was going to use that steely resolve to overcome this "minor" problem and win the damn election.

 Christ, it's so sad to think this only happens in the fictional land of television.
 It's so fucking sad to realize there are NO DEMOCRATS with any balls in Washington DC.

 Christ, that's sad.