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If you could pick any living American (yes, any) to be President, who would you pick?

Roach-Busters
05-08-2004, 03:12
Ron Paul.
Opal Isle
05-08-2004, 03:13
Bill Maher
Von Witzleben
05-08-2004, 03:14
Gary Leon Ridgway.
Roach-Busters
05-08-2004, 03:14
Gary Leon Ridgway.

Who?
Von Witzleben
05-08-2004, 03:15
Who?
The Green river killer.
New Fubaria
05-08-2004, 03:16
Ron Jeremy.
Purly Euclid
05-08-2004, 03:18
Arnold Schwarzennegger, if only because he's the coolest politician out there.
Opal Isle
05-08-2004, 03:21
Arnold Schwarzennegger, if only because he's the coolest politician out there.
He unfortunately doesn't qualify...however the title does say ANY...and there are people trying to change the constitution...
Roach-Busters
05-08-2004, 03:25
He unfortunately doesn't qualify...however the title does say ANY...and there are people trying to change the constitution...

That's right, ANY American. Even your baby sister, if you have one. However, it has to be a human. Pets don't count.
New war order
05-08-2004, 03:27
Arnold Schwarzennegger, if only because he's the coolest politician out there.
and what terrorist would mess with us. our president would be the terminator. Arnold"saddam is a girlie man!"
Deus Ex Machana
05-08-2004, 03:32
Hmmm.... I'd pick randomy from an insane asylum, he or she would be perfect!
Squornshelous
05-08-2004, 03:34
and what terrorist would mess with us. our president would be the terminator. Arnold"saddam is a girlie man!"

Especially if we had Jesse Ventura for VP!
Purly Euclid
05-08-2004, 03:36
He unfortunately doesn't qualify...however the title does say ANY...and there are people trying to change the constitution...
Yeah, I support them. There are many naturalized citizens just as loyal to the US as someone like you and me.
Purly Euclid
05-08-2004, 03:36
and what terrorist would mess with us. our president would be the terminator. Arnold"saddam is a girlie man!"
To our enemies, God help you if he's elected. It really is "Hasta la vista, baby!"
Undecidedterritory
05-08-2004, 03:40
George W. Bush
Undecidedterritory
05-08-2004, 03:43
the new poll asks which memeber of the bush administation scares you the most. the most popular answer?
i say.......none of them. hes my pick. rock on dubya. i thought of supporting kerry but these left wingers are really out to lunch judging by other forums. besides, i agree with bush on most issues.
CSW
05-08-2004, 03:43
Because it will be said:
Jello Biafra.


Really, Bill Clinton (again)
Undecidedterritory
05-08-2004, 03:45
bill clinton is not elligible to be president becasue of constitution term limits.
Squornshelous
05-08-2004, 03:46
Maybe Bill Cosby.
CSW
05-08-2004, 03:55
bill clinton is not elligible to be president becasue of constitution term limits.
Read the thread title...
Lunatic Goofballs
05-08-2004, 03:59
Hugh Hefner. :D
BLARGistania
05-08-2004, 04:07
Myself, of course. I thought everyone knew that.
The Resi Corporation
05-08-2004, 04:12
Arnold Schwarzennegger, if only because he's the coolest politician out there.
Not if you live in his state...

Honesty, he has a program called "Terminate Debt". Not to mention he called the state senate "girly men". :mad:
San Texario
05-08-2004, 04:14
Jon Stewart with VP Lewis Black. Two men who tell it like it is, and they're Jewish, so it will be a leap in American history.
Colodia
05-08-2004, 04:25
myself


WE SHALL RETURN TO OUR ROOTS OF IMPERIALISM AND RULE THE WORLD! THE TIME IS PERFECT!
New Auburnland
05-08-2004, 04:32
Don Rumsfeld
Her Supreme Highness
05-08-2004, 04:37
Jon Stewart would be awsome. Think of how much that would increase the number of people who watch presidential speeches!
Canadama
05-08-2004, 04:48
Bill Clinton fo' sheezy. Every time he talks about international affairs, it's like I'm coming up for air from a tub of mud. Someone can talk like that still?

If not Clinton, then Bill Bradley. Even my pro-Bush, pro-Dole, pro-Reagan Grammy wanted Bill Bradley to win the White House. He's just an amazing person.
Jkghslaaoto
05-08-2004, 04:54
Me.

...then i'd take over the world. yey
Squi
05-08-2004, 04:56
Ooh, ooh. Pick me. Pick me. Darn, I never get to be the president.
Revolutionsz
05-08-2004, 05:10
Bill Clinton...
Pongoar
05-08-2004, 05:25
I feel that the most competent and uncorrupt person for president is the guy who doesn't want to be president.

To quote Douglas Adams:

The major problem-one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get the people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Endolantron
05-08-2004, 05:28
I'll make a list of everyone I know in order of who I can trust the most to rule the United States okay. When asking each of them, I'll first give the warning that 7% of all U.S. presidents were assassinated while in office. Whoever is the first to accept the presidency even after hearing and thinking about my warning will be my choice for who will become president. If I run out of people who know me and I can trust very well, I will simply choose Bill Clinton or John Kerry.

Because of the 7% chance of being killed, I will NOT choose myself as the next president, even with the temptation of being the leader of the most powerful country on Earth.
Daistallia 2104
05-08-2004, 06:23
Ishihara Shintaro (http://www.ezipangu.org/english/contents/news/naname/ishihara/ishihara_top.html)!



















NOT!

Seriously Ron Paul (http://www.house.gov/paul/) would be a pretty good choice, idealistically, as might Jesse Ventura. Realistically, John McCain, Colin Powell, or maybe Rudy Guiliani.
Zyzyx Road
05-08-2004, 06:36
John Stamos

I mean, who doesn't love Uncle Jessie!
Lunatic Goofballs
05-08-2004, 06:37
John Stamos

I mean, who doesn't love Uncle Jessie!

*raises his hand*
Undecidedterritory
05-08-2004, 06:37
um, there have been 42 presidents. 4 have been killed by murder. lincoln, garfield, mckinley and kennedy, thats more than 7 percent
Zyzyx Road
05-08-2004, 06:38
*raises his hand*

*bludgeons you with hard blunt object*
Sheilanagig
05-08-2004, 06:40
Howard Zinn.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html
Sdaeriji
05-08-2004, 06:43
John McCain. He's the only politician that I am aware of who seems to be honest.
Le Deuche
05-08-2004, 06:44
Ghandi...







no im kidding he's dead and not from here and all. I'm gonna go with Kinky Freidman!!!!!!!!! lets all kill 2 birds and get stoned! and all of you from texas should vote kinky for governor. anyway thats all.
imported_Mezzenrach
05-08-2004, 06:58
Regardless of Constitutional constraints, lets go from FLOTUS to POTUS ...
H.R. Clinton. Besides, she wears the pants in the family (had better grades, is by far a better lawyer [not that this is necessarily a GOOD thing], and - above all - worked on one of the most important cases in US history, while fresh out of law school ... Watergate).

If not HRC, how about Maria Shriver (or whatever she goes by ...). Who say's POTUS has to be male? Then you could have Ahnold as the FHOTUS - First Husband (or "Man" ... nah) of the United States. That would be one way to have the Kennedy clan get another shot at Camelot ... :-)
Freimachen
05-08-2004, 06:58
Jimmy Carter.

He is one of the best men the world has ever seen, he's got experience, and hey, he's quite a looker. ;)
Valderixia
05-08-2004, 07:00
I feel that the most competent and uncorrupt person for president is the guy who doesn't want to be president.

To quote Douglas Adams:

The major problem-one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get the people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.


I find this highly entertaining, because I think I would make an excelent president/politician, but I would have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do it!!!


Anyway, I say (and I'm suprised no one has said his name yet!) Russ Feingold...Wisconsin Senator...

I, and all my friends and almost anyone I know from Wisconsin want him to be the president!
Soviet Haaregrad
05-08-2004, 07:09
Ru Paul.
The Resi Corporation
05-08-2004, 07:17
John McCain. He's the only politician that I am aware of who seems to be honest.
You mean other than him bashing Bush in private but supporting him in public?
Islam-Judaism
05-08-2004, 07:20
Fidel Castro
Islam-Judaism
05-08-2004, 07:21
and clinton could be president agian, the law states no man can be president for 3 consecutive term. he could run in 2008 and win.
Daistallia 2104
05-08-2004, 07:52
and clinton could be president agian, the law states no man can be president for 3 consecutive term. he could run in 2008 and win.

Can you point out where the Twenty-second Amendment says that?
Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Didn't think so. Thanks for playing. (Of course he does slip in under the OP question.)
Nazi Weaponized Virus
05-08-2004, 07:53
Werner von Braun
Berkylvania
05-08-2004, 08:08
You mean other than him bashing Bush in private but supporting him in public?

Ouch. That's a really good point.
Callisdrun
05-08-2004, 08:11
Les Claypool
Islam-Judaism
05-08-2004, 08:15
i stand corrected
Antarctica123
05-08-2004, 08:20
Howard Stern
Strensall
05-08-2004, 08:44
Axl Rose
New Fubaria
05-08-2004, 09:25
David Lee Roth
Ballotonia
05-08-2004, 10:38
Can you point out where the Twenty-second Amendment says that?

"Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice [...]"

Didn't think so. Thanks for playing. (Of course he does slip in under the OP question.)

Wait a minute... Does the term "elected" used up there include being appointed as President by the Supreme Court?

Ballotonia
The Communazi Party
05-08-2004, 11:32
Without a doubt, it would have to be William M Tweed
Sskiss
05-08-2004, 11:41
Truimph the Insult Comic Dog, because, quite franky it couldn't get worse :D

Imagine how would respond to everything, including terrorists...

"FOR ME TO POP ON"!!!
L a L a Land
05-08-2004, 11:47
Zeb Macahan!!

More seriously, Bill Clinton. Tho I don't know that many americans at all, so maybe Squi? ;)

Ooh, ooh. Pick me. Pick me. Darn, I never get to be the president.
Daistallia 2104
05-08-2004, 12:25
Wait a minute... Does the term "elected" used up there include being appointed as President by the Supreme Court?

Ballotonia

I assume you're refering to the 2000 election, and Bush v. Gore and Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. If you really think the SCOUS "appointed" Bush, please go read the case: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/florida.html
Libertovania
05-08-2004, 13:37
Choose and perish!

http://www.no-treason.com/comments.php?id=689_0_1_0_C
Squi
05-08-2004, 15:30
Zeb Macahan!!

More seriously, Bill Clinton. Tho I don't know that many americans at all, so maybe Squi? ;)
Thank you very much, only few dozen million more and I'm on my way to Washington DC. If I become president I promise my first official act will be memorable.


As for the whole USSC/Bush, irrelevant since the election is by the electoral college, and Bush won that election - the cout rulings only indirectly concerned for whom some of the elctoral votes would be cast for.
New war order
05-08-2004, 15:56
Not if you live in his state...

Honesty, he has a program called "Terminate Debt". Not to mention he called the state senate "girly men". :mad:
how pansy can you be if you get up in arms over arnold calling the senate girlie men? it was a joke. "ohh but that means he hates gay people" pansies. i would take arnold as pres and stallone as v.p. well either him or the rock. who would you vote for arnold vice stallone or the rock?
Luciferius
05-08-2004, 16:05
I say we forget all this democracy crap and become the the most powerful and imperialist Military Dictatorship the World has ever seen. We'll abolish the UN and appoint Gen. Tommy Franks as our leader.
Lex Terrae
05-08-2004, 16:29
Ted Nugent. The Nuge!
Nadejda 2
05-08-2004, 16:31
Bond, James Bond
Colburnia
05-08-2004, 16:33
:headbang:Jon Stewart (of the Daily Show on Comedy Central)
San haiti
05-08-2004, 16:33
how pansy can you be if you get up in arms over arnold calling the senate girlie men? it was a joke. "ohh but that means he hates gay people" pansies. i would take arnold as pres and stallone as v.p. well either him or the rock. who would you vote for arnold vice stallone or the rock?

god please tell me you're kidding. what makes you think they know the first thing about politics?
Wehling
05-08-2004, 16:33
Paris Hilton
Lex Terrae
05-08-2004, 16:37
Paris Hilton

Ooh. Good one!
El-Shaladan
05-08-2004, 16:45
Paris Hilton

Famous for being famous. Nice.

Personally, I'd go with Lewis Black.

But seriously, I'd go for Bill Clinton or Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark. He should be in that race, not Kerry. What a landslide! Bye bye Bush!
Lex Terrae
05-08-2004, 16:56
Gary Coleman can be Paris Hilton's running mate. Hilton/Coleman in '04. The slutty spoiled heiress and the washed up former child star. The very essence of Americana. I love it. I'm in.
Anya Bananya
05-08-2004, 17:12
The answer is easy, it would be me... however i wasnt born in this country :(
Stephistan
05-08-2004, 17:25
I'm going with Jon Stewart too! (Or Kerry) ..lol
Spoffin
05-08-2004, 17:58
Al Franken.
Spoffin
05-08-2004, 17:58
Bond, James Bond
He's British, you can't steal James Bond from us!
Cuneo Island
05-08-2004, 18:12
Bill Maher

Yeah!
Cuneo Island
05-08-2004, 18:12
He's British, you can't steal James Bond from us!

Keep him. He's the last thing I want running our country.
Kybernetia
05-08-2004, 18:29
I´m not American: But I would like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming president once. He is cool. So: CHANGE YOUR CONSTITUITION.
Ban gay marriage and allow a foreign born person to become president.
Galtania
05-08-2004, 19:01
John McCain or Rudy Guiliani
Eli
05-08-2004, 19:27
Walter Williams
West - Europa
05-08-2004, 19:53
Because it will be said:
Jello Biafra.


Really, Bill Clinton (again)

I'd go for Jello Biafra, Ralph Nader or Noam Chomsky.

And Bill Clinton is overrated.

I´m not American: But I would like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming president once. He is cool. So: CHANGE YOUR CONSTITUITION.
Ban gay marriage and allow a foreign born person to become president.

I'll let you in on a little European secret: Don't import politicians from Austria.

In other news, I have a vague memory of a Sylvester Stallone movie (the one where he got frozen) where Schwarzenegger was said to have been president.
I mean, how fast can you go from fiction to reality?
Santa Barbara
05-08-2004, 19:56
Bill Gates!
Dakini
05-08-2004, 20:04
billie joe armstrong.


then your country would kick ass.
Meatopiaa
05-08-2004, 20:08
Colin Powell
Randome
05-08-2004, 20:13
snoop doggy dawg cos he is PIMP innit my breadbins.

nah. my mate bob. he's invisible but he'd still make a welllll good president. but he never talks either so i aint sure where hes from.....

:cool:
Randome
05-08-2004, 20:14
Colin Powell


nah you dont want a bloke who cant even spell/pronounce his own name.
The Resi Corporation
06-08-2004, 01:27
I´m not American: But I would like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming president once. He is cool. So: CHANGE YOUR CONSTITUITION.
Ban gay marriage and allow a foreign born person to become president.
Being President isn't about being cool, it's about knowing EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING!!!

Sorry, Arnie's education cuts are getting to me. Paying four times as much for college as I would otherwise isn't exactly my idea of a good way to get money.
Enodscopia
06-08-2004, 01:40
Tommy Franks.
McBus
06-08-2004, 01:52
I'm agreeing with whoever it was that suggested Gen. Wesley Clark.

But I don't live in the USA :P
Ryndai
06-08-2004, 02:05
It's a three way tie:

1, Ammend your Constitution and let Clinton back in to the White House for the rest of his days

2, Jon Bon Jovi

3, Vincent Kennedy McMahon
_Susa_
06-08-2004, 02:31
Rudy Giuliani.
Violets and Kitties
06-08-2004, 04:36
Dennis Kucinich
Bereavia
06-08-2004, 04:43
I'd have to go with someone with intelligence and compassion.......Dave Chapelle
United Seekers
06-08-2004, 05:09
It's another 3 way tie:

1. Bill O'Reilly ~~ very smart and non-polarizing and NO SPIN

2. Condoleeza Rice ~~ very very smart and respected and respectful of the office

3. Ross Perot ~~ he can get us out of debt, baby

~~~~~

However, since none of these folks is running (Perot dropped out) I am going for Bush in 2004, and hope that Rice or Colin Powell run in 2008 against HR Clinton.
New Fubaria
06-08-2004, 05:36
I'd have to go with someone with intelligence and compassion.......Dave Chapelle

Chapelle Rocks! I change my vote - I want Dave, too!
CSW
06-08-2004, 05:49
It's another 3 way tie:

1. Bill O'Reilly ~~ very smart and non-polarizing and NO SPIN

That was a joke right? Please tell me that was a joke.
Zincite
06-08-2004, 05:52
Well, as long as ANY American human is up for grabs, I'd say that my crazy best friend's ultraliberal dad is a nice choice. He still has 2 more years before he's eligible by age, but if someone's baby sister can run...
CSW
06-08-2004, 05:54
Well, as long as ANY American human is up for grabs, I'd say that my crazy best friend's ultraliberal dad is a nice choice. He still has 2 more years before he's eligible by age, but if someone's baby sister can run...
He did say any.
The Resi Corporation
06-08-2004, 05:55
It's another 3 way tie:

1. Bill O'Reilly ~~ very smart and non-polarizing and NO SPIN

2. Condoleeza Rice ~~ very very smart and respected and respectful of the office

3. Ross Perot ~~ he can get us out of debt, baby

~~~~~

However, since none of these folks is running (Perot dropped out) I am going for Bush in 2004, and hope that Rice or Colin Powell run in 2008 against HR Clinton.
Oh, well that last sentence explains EVERYTHING. :p
Left Winged Punks
06-08-2004, 06:01
i say we kill all the politicians and form an anachist state. But since thats not gona happen, i vote .........this guy!( :sniper: )
CSW
06-08-2004, 06:05
i say we kill all the politicians and form an anachist state. But since thats not gona happen, i vote .........this guy!( :sniper: )
Judging by your name, you want Jello Biafra my good man.
Rose Cross Madness
06-08-2004, 06:06
hilary clinton, with theresa heinz kerry for vice president
finally some ball bustin in the white house.
CSW
06-08-2004, 06:07
hilary clinton, with theresa heinz kerry for vice president
finally some ball bustin in the white house.
Well, at least we know who wears the pants then...
Character People
06-08-2004, 06:37
Ron Paul as president (for very smart good ideas)
Jim Traficant as vice president (for comic relief)
Quarka
06-08-2004, 06:55
Michael Savage.