I wonder what the writers were thinking. Is this by some clever conservative who pulled the wool over the eyes of the Hollywood left? Is it someone who simply decided to do a remake of an old show and didn’t notice the parallels? Now that the parallel is getting more talk than the plot is, will Hollywood rework the remaining episodes to try to create a Palin parallel (cute brunette leader = dangerous) that is superficially stronger than the Obama parallel (evil, un-American power grabbing socialist dictator = dangerous)?
I’ve talked to several friends about this in the last week.
The writers of this show were not making a point of writing about Obama, they were following the storyline that was laid out in 1983 in the original mini-series.
Those writers were not writing about any particular politician either, they were following the storyline that was laid out by Sinclair Lewis in his 1935 book “It Can’t Happen Here”, about the rise of Fascism in America.
So, if there are supporters of President Obama who feel this storyline is about him... well, if the fascist shoe fits.