If you were God or Bruce Almighty, and you could snap your fingers and make anyone the President of the United States, who would you pick?
I’d pick myself because I have such a big ego and don’t trust anyone š
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Patrick Fitzgerald has a reputation for being uncorruptible, although I don’t think he’s especially left-leaning. Eliot Spitzer has a similar air. Wesley Clark is a smart fellow and he has some military experience that would perhaps come in handy in getting out of various current messes.
I tend to agree with the idea that the people you’d most want to have power are either unwilling or unable (e.g. because winning elections requires too much borderline/unethical behavior, aka politicking) to acquire it.
Keith Olbermann, because it’s time that we had somebody kewl.
Read all the comments…thought of the people who might actually be able to do it. Olbermann would be the best. He could communicate and think at the same time. Colbert might be even better.
More seriously, I think Obama is about the most intelligent candidate I’ve seen in decades. That’s why I think he doesn’t have a chance. See the diary posted yesterday.
Kurt Vonnegut. Even dead he’d be a great president.
Pete Seeger.
Neil YOung?
He’s Canadian.
He should’ve been the President back in 2000, and 7 years later he’s learned to stand for himself and what he believes in.
I’m the last person I’d pick — I know my limitations…
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Gore
bill moyer
I agree… He seems to have a better grasp on the real problems and issues than any of the politicians out there.
I would also disband Congress, for maybe a year or two, until real changes could take effect.
Him or maybe Noam Chomsky. We could use a good Socialist. :>)
Yeah, I know, he’s just as dead as Kurt Vonnegut, but still.
I believe in the idea that two heads are better than one, so not only would I appoint a president, but two people to most cabinet positions as counter-weights. For example:
President: Me or Bill Bradley
Vice President: Mario Cuomo
State: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski and Bill Richardson
Interior: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Browne (former BP CEO)
Energy: Al Gore and Sir Richard Branson
DCI: Noam Chomsky and Mark Tulloss (my bro)
DHS: Richard Clarke and
Defense: Gen. Wesley Clark, Deacon Jones, and the ghost of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams
Commerce: Ralph Nader and Jerry Yang (Yahoo founder)
Peace: Kucinich who gets to name his partner for being right on everything else..
Deacon Jones is a good pick but your bro as DCI?
I want a straight answer and I’ve known that sumbitch for a long time. Straight answers ain’t his specialty.
You want it straight? talk to Noam. You want operational truthiness, talk to the Esq.
but I’ll bet you anything you want to bet that right about now, if there is an afterlife, Jerry Falwell is looking around and going, “Oh, crap.“
Yes! I think if the Hell Falwell he seemed so eager to condemn so many of the rest of us to is real then I expect he’s feeling considerable heat by now.
Either that, or the afterlife is nothing like he imagined at all. I’m not sure which idea I like better — the thought that Jesus Himself is roasting Jerry, um, well not alive but roasting him nonetheless, for the atrocities Jerry perpetrated in Jesus’ name; or that the afterlife is actually the way the Muslims imagine it, and whatever their version of Hell is, he’s suffering it.
Or maybe he’s just waiting to be reincarnated as an impoverished dalit woman in India. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I think I’ve seen this question posed before…if you want someone who’s alive right now, I’d take Al Gore. Dead, and I’d pick RFK. I wouldn’t vote for Booman because he’d probably take all the tax revenue and spend it on booze…or possibly some razors. š
I want to rule the planet, not be president.
Well me too, but if I did I’d want to do it for laughs.
Ron Paul, the only anti-Illuminati candidate.