Rob Lowe suggests Obama borrowed his 'cancer cure' SOTU line from The West Wing

Was President Obama's declaration during Tuesday night's State of the Union address that America will cure cancer ripped from TV? West Wing veteran Rob Lowe thinks so, and tweeted about the similarities last night:

In the show, President Josiah Bartlet decides against speaking about cancer in his SOTU address, but not before Lowe's character writes an epic introduction of the initiative. Obama's real life announcement was less soaring and Sorkin-esque, and also did not include a decade deadline.

Click here to watch Lowe's delivery of the cancer cure lines that didn't make it into the fictional SOTU, and watch Obama's comments here.

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