# Counterpoint: Pick a FICTIONAL character to be President. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121 "2010-06-14T11:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/21 "2010-06-14T21:10:31Z")
Jack Bauer. He’s resourceful, he’s always right and he never dies. He kills terrorists like it’s going out of style. The character played by Samuel L. Jackson in Snakes on a Plane. Imagine the endless political capital of the expression “I’ve had it with these MF \_\_\_\_ on this MF \_\_\_\_!” ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/22 "2010-06-14T21:22:12Z")
Why Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, of course! I can’t wait for my new name! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/23 "2010-06-14T22:03:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The goddess or the computer? :mad: You seem to be implying that the patron of Odysseus is NOT real. I’m sure that was an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/24 "2010-06-14T22:06:33Z")
Kal-El. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/25 "2010-06-14T22:16:03Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Kal-El. If Kal-El were real, wouldn’t you rather he was doing something more…I dunno…utilitory of his skill-set? ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/26 "2010-06-14T23:14:42Z")
I think the Flying Spagetti Monster would be an entertaining choice. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/27 "2010-06-14T23:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > You seem to be implying that the patron of Odysseus is NOT real. I’m sure that was an accident. No, just that there’s been plenty of fiction written about her. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/28 "2010-06-14T23:27:25Z")
Ron Swanson [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q7QXI79SJzw/hqdefault.jpg "Parks and Recreation - Ron Swanson: The Chosen One") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7QXI79SJzw) If not him, then John Galt or Rorshach. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/29 "2010-06-14T23:41:55Z")
Seriously, people, you are missing all the good answers. Pedro Kodos David Palmer ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/30 "2010-06-14T23:44:46Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#): > > I think the Flying Spagetti Monster would be an entertaining choice. No, then you’d have to deal with that whole “Seperation of church and State” thing , I’d like to see The Brain as president, with V.P. Pinky, or barring that, Cthulu, after all, why vote for a _Lesser_ Evil… I get to be eaten first, though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/31 "2010-06-14T23:47:04Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Jack Bauer. He’s resourceful, he’s always right and he never dies. He kills terrorists like it’s going out of style. Yeah, plus now he wouldn’t have to convince some other person as president to go along with all those immunity deals. Not to mention he wouldn’t have to take himself down after he turns out to be corrupt. Or would he… ---
**Author:** ![Palmer\_Eldritch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Palmer\_Eldritch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmer_Eldritch)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/32 "2010-06-15T00:09:33Z")
Calvin/Hobbes '12 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/33 "2010-06-15T01:26:10Z")
I’ve been waiting for years to answer this question. Ironside (Raymond Burr) > **[Ironside (TV Series 1967–1975) ⭐ 6.9 | Crime, Drama, Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061266/)** > > 1h | TV-PG He could have kicked some international butt! One time I even dreamed that he was President. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/34 "2010-06-15T01:30:38Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first. [Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpfHBicjQk) Or Atticus. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/35 "2010-06-15T01:36:47Z")
God damn you **Equip**! Damn you to Hell! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/36 "2010-06-15T02:32:20Z")
No one else’s first thought was Zaphod Beeblebrox? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/37 "2010-06-15T02:44:40Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Easy: Atticus Finch. Winner-winner, chicken dinner. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Captain America 2nd place. In third is my choice, Rooster Cogburn. > [@Gagundathar](#): > > Maybe Lazarus Long or Jubal Harshaw? Honorable Mention. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/38 "2010-06-15T02:47:59Z")
[Frenchy the Evil Clown!](http://www.nickbakay.com/archives/evil_clown/) Grab yuh ankles, America! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/39 "2010-06-15T02:51:08Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Lord Vetinari. Or maybe he would be VP or Chief of Staff with Carrot Ironfoundersson as President. No. If we are going to use that Universe… DEATH has to be president. He’s smart, always does what needs to be done, and yet he stays humble. That guy has saved the world numerous times, and his daughter’s pretty damn hot so we get to look at her in the magazines. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-pick-a-fictional-character-to-be-president/543121/40 "2010-06-15T02:57:46Z")
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