# Commander In Chief 4/13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commander-in-chief-4-13/353083 "2006-04-17T23:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commander-in-chief-4-13/353083/1 "2006-04-17T23:29:23Z")
So **Commander In Chief** has been brought back, on Thursdays opposite **ER**. I’m glad to see it, but I can see there’s been some rejiggering. Rod Calloway, in a reversal of one of the major character arcs of the series to date, is moving back into the First Gentleman’s Office, & trying not to play “co-President”–fair enough, I guess, but coming after the hiatus, feels a bit like, “Hey, 3rd show runner, 2nd rejigger, still 1st season!” And apparently, the series is now set in an alternate reality where there is no US Senate. :dubious: I mean,\* **what?!!!** \* There’s this big snit over the House sticking an expensive anti-drug rider into Mac’s big Bill to Help the Homeless. OK, big deal, pass it _sans_ rider in the Senate, fix it in committee. But NO-O-O! After the House passes it, Mac gives her State of the Union speech, in which she says she’ll veto “HR#(whatever)”–as if there were no such thing as a Senate. Now, I know there was a Senate in earlier eps, so what gives? Sigh… This gave me a chuckle: > [@Uncyclopedia](#): > > _**[Commander in Chief](http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Commander_in_Chief)**_ is a fictional television series broadcast on the ABC network and set in the White House. … The series has been criticized for its unrealistic writing. > … > The most important difference in the world of Commander in Chief, however, is that a woman can become President. This plot point flatly contradicts the requirement in Article II Section 1 of the United States Constitution that: > > \*No Person except a natural born Man, or a person surgically altered and living as a Man at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; \* > The Manist Clause, added by the Founding Fathers to prevent Maggie Thatcher from becoming President, does not exist in the world of \*\*Commander in Chief. \*\* Instead it is replaced by the fictional Nativist Clause, which prevents anyone not born in the United States from becoming President. Such a clause is ridiculous because, while it would indeed have prevented Ms. Thatcher from becoming President, such a prohibition would also have prevented Arnold Schwarzenegger from becoming President and subsequently defending Mt. Olympus against the assault of the Titans in World War II. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commander-in-chief-4-13/353083/2 "2006-04-18T06:14:22Z")
I had high hopes for this show…I love West Wing, really like Gena Davis and thought the premise sounded good. I was wrong. The story plots about the family are just stupid…any political family has been around the block long enough to know what to expect. Also, Gena never really appears “Presidential” in the show…she is more like a very qualified college professor. I watched the most recent episode and once again…so-so. I will not be surprised when this show is cancelled at the end of the season, without so much as a farewell episode. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commander-in-chief-4-13/353083/3 "2006-04-18T14:14:40Z")
I guess my problem with it is just that Donald Sutherland’s character is so evil. I mean, he’s “twirl his mustache, demand the rent from the poor widow, tie the beautiful woman to the train tracks” evil. I’m half expecting him, every episode, to call the President from a secret base and say, “Either sign my tax cut bill or I will use my orbital laser to destroy Cleveland.”