Bartlet: You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence.

this section is a very, very close second and sort of linked:

Obama: When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How is that a liability?
Bartlet: Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

You see, I am an avid internet browser and have read columns, comments, remarks, etc. and I have seen this theme. Every time I read it I always wonder what people are thinking. Like Aaron Sorkin I wonder why people are offended that a gentleman has a J.D. with a specialty in constitutional law, a man who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 12 years! It blows my mind that somehow that has become a negative! How dare we have an intellectual running our country!

How much more of this do we have to endure before people realize that someone who graduated Magna Cum Laude might actually be someone who would do well as a president?