Well, DR JRand, I haven't seen COMMANDER IN CHIEF, but I'm not so sure I'd judge it before it airs. It's on ABC, the most conservative of the big three networks, so I don't think the show is going to be featuring the ideology that was featured on NBC's THE WEST WING, for example.
I'm just surmising here, but if you're a Geena Davis fan (I can take or leave her, so that's why I won't be watching), I'd watch or record at least the first episode.