Every Sorkin lover in the world just died and went to Heaven

Ever wondered what The West Wing's President Bartlet would say to Barack Obama? Well, it appears, so has Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd.

I don't always, or even often, like Dowd, but she has one big advantage that most of the rest of us don't have in pondering such a ponderable.

She once dated Aaron Sorkin, so when she wanted to know what his fictional Democrat would have to say to this true one...she just called him and asked him.

And he gave her this. It's a page of dialogue between the two men, ending with:

BARTLET ...You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine. To these aged eyes, Senator, that’s what progress looks like. You guys got four debates. Get out of my house and go back to work.

What's next?