I almost feel bad for the Commander In Chief team over at ABC. Faced with the runaway success of the Housewives and being put on the Thursday night spot as a last resort, there's got to be an awful lot of pressure on these guys.

As a result, they're getting desperate to make Geena Davis' character even more likable than ever. Not content with being a woman running a country and still managing to find the time to tuck her kids* in at night, she's an Independent, bound to, if not please everyone, at least not piss off anyone. And then, in the first minutes of tonight's episode, we find out her plan for the State of the Union is to announce her initiatives to raise minimum wage, curb nuclear proliferation by unilaterally reduce the US arsenal, and fight homelessness. Quite a program!

*: I will, of course, gladly take over the job of tucking her son (played by 23 year-old Matt Lanter) in...

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