Great minds think alike

Megan McArdle Feb 21 2008, 10:42 PM ET

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Chris Beam of Slate had much the same thought as my crew:

Obama looks like a Roman senator. Hillary looks like a guest star in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Update 8:35 p.m.: A friend corrects me. More like Chronicles of Riddick.

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Megan McArdle is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.

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