# Could a Doper who asks too many inane questions get elected POTUS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631 "2006-03-16T18:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/21 "2006-03-16T22:58:33Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > [Could a homosexual get elected POTUS?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363126) Mom, Dad, sit down. There’s something I have to tell you. I’m afraid it may disturb you even shock, but I can no longer live with this lie. I’m _not_ the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I’m the President of the United States of America, and I have been for over four years now. Remember all those nights I told you I was working late with a colleague? Well, I’m afraid it wasn’t Kofi like you assumed. Mom, Dad, I’d like you both to meet Dick. We’ve been together for over six years now, and we make each other happy. We’re meant for each other. I know this may come as a shock, even disappointment to you, and it may be too much to ask for your blessing right now, but all we want is your acceptance. What we’re doing may be wrong in your eyes, in the eyes of the world, but deep down together, we feel _we’re_ right, and that’s all that matters for us. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/22 "2006-03-16T23:06:42Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > Only a closeted gay, circumsized, African-Amercan Mormon Doper. I’m in! w00t! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/23 "2006-03-16T23:17:43Z")
**Ask The Guy Who Could Not Possibly Be Elected POTUS** ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/24 "2006-03-16T23:30:18Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > [Could a Jew get elected POTUS?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363053) Four more years! But for you? Three-and-a-half, and I’m robbing myself. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/25 "2006-03-16T23:38:06Z")
> [@whole bean](#): > > 'bout 5 years ago, with the premier of _West Wing_. Least that’s when I first heard it – in those commercials leading up to the first episode, in fact they kind of made a big deal about “who is POTUS?”. SCOTUS is also pretty popular now. Which is unfortunate, since my mind in its infinite jest always converts this to SCROTUM. Could someone who makes too many jokes about words that sound like parts of the male anatomy get elected President? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/26 "2006-03-17T00:39:52Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Of course, we all know that the question that is really on Dopers minds is - Could Batman get elected POTUS? If his PAC is prepared. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/27 "2006-03-17T01:00:45Z")
> [@riker1384](#): > > Could a Doper who asks too many inane questions get elected POTUS? Well you got my vote. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/28 "2006-03-17T01:33:53Z")
This isn’t a rant. I’m not quite sure _what_ it is, but Pit material it ain’t. Since it’s mostly just having fun, off to MPSIMS with it. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/29 "2006-03-17T01:35:06Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > Only a closeted gay, circumsized, African-Amercan Mormon Doper. I could see that happening. But Ross Perot? Come on. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/30 "2006-03-17T01:46:35Z")
Hey, I was just making a pre-emptive strike with my thread. I figured if I didn’t do it, someone else would. And I learned some interesting facts in those threads. There’s been a Jewish governor of Utah. Who’da thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/31 "2006-03-17T01:47:43Z")
Would conspiracy nuts think the designation “Charter Member” is an Illuminati signal? How will voters react when a 10-point platform includes “Hi, Opal”? Can an entire State of the Union address be made from sequential thread titles? Can we really balance the budget by running Google adds at the bottom of every presidential message? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/32 "2006-03-17T01:57:41Z")
I’ll volunteer to be Prime Minister. I think I ask inane questions too much already. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/33 "2006-03-17T03:17:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Tom Clancy readers have bandied about the term for decades. Correct as Usual. Though I don’t see FLOTUS much, was it more commonly used here when Hillary was still FLOTUS? So who are we nominating? 😉 Jim ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/34 "2006-03-17T04:17:13Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Phew. I’m out. > > Of the running. Not the _closet._ Geez. So, are you saying that you’re _in_ the closet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/35 "2006-03-17T04:29:37Z")
Don’t look at me! I ran in 2000, and couldn’t even get on the ballot! In fact, I didn’t even get a hanging chad. I blame it on my precinct workers, except for one, though. The exception is **Shirley Ujest** , because she obviously became very well known campaigning for me. In fact, every time I talked to someone about my candidacy, the first thing they did was mention her name! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/36 "2006-03-17T05:46:28Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Though I don’t see FLOTUS much Maybe because it makes it sound more like someone ate too much chili than an acronym for First Lady of the United States? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/37 "2006-03-17T06:36:32Z")
i shall humbly accept your nomination, brave dopers. and then i’ll make a fun presidential slush fund with the google ads as income generators. think of how BIG the squids will be for new people when i’m elected to the office!!! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/38 "2006-03-17T07:02:41Z")
Damn. I saw the threads eliminating women and African Americans and Jews and homosexuals and Mormons and Ross Perot and I was thinking “I’m none of these things. If other people keep get knocked out of the running like this, eventually I’ll be the only eligible person left to be President. Cool.” Then this thread comes along and I’m sitting on the bench. In the immortal words of Howard Dean, “YYYAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/39 "2006-03-17T07:07:39Z")
Boggles the mind. Of course, the Doper Administration will need to establish various government programs for the War On Ignorance. We’ll need a comitment to visit the Marianas Trench, say, for twenty-five minutes. For defense, of course we’ll need to come up with a decent 2020’s-style Death Ray. …and sure, there are many others… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631/40 "2006-03-17T07:12:56Z")
> [@Civil Guy](#): > > …and sure, there are many others… Flag-burning will stay legal, but dog-burning is right out. Legislation will regulate the attachment of “Gotcha ya!” mechanisms to new casket construction. TIME CUBE BECOME NEW OPERATING PARADIGM OF UNITED STATES! There will be a weekly national _Amazing Race_ dialogue hosted by the Library of Congress. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-doper-who-asks-too-many-inane-questions-get-elected-potus/348631.md?page=3)