# Pick an actor, actress, singer, author, or artist to be the next US president. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937 "2010-06-12T18:18:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 12, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/1 "2010-06-12T18:18:14Z")
And explain why, of course. Please restrict yourself to persons both real and living. Jed Clampett is not eligible because he’s fictional; Buddy Ebsen because he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/2 "2010-06-12T18:33:50Z")
Patrick Stewart, just for the riveting State of the Union Address. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/3 "2010-06-12T18:38:45Z")
Anderson Cooper. He’s smart, easy to look at and knows about Moles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/4 "2010-06-12T19:08:52Z")
Lewis Black. Smartest funny man I can think of. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/5 "2010-06-12T19:16:15Z")
Cher, because she’d take no shit and she wouldn’t die - and I don’t mean just while in office, I mean she will never, ever die. Plus all of her speeches could be made through a vocoder. My alternate choice is Dolly Parton, but as Dolly herself has said, “don’t you think there’s been enough boobs in the White House?” ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/6 "2010-06-12T19:19:10Z")
Ever since her episode of Punk’d, I’ve been trying to get the Mandy Moore for President 2020 campaign going. I think she has mass appeal, diplomacy skills, and intelligence to make an excellent leader, and I’ve seen nothing since that has dissuaded me from that position. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/7 "2010-06-12T19:30:06Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Patrick Stewart, just for the riveting State of the Union Address. Sadly ineligible. Stupid Constitution. ---
**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 12, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/8 "2010-06-12T19:32:02Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Sadly ineligible. Stupid Constitution. The OP said NOTHING about the person actually being eligible for the office, beyond not being dead. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/9 "2010-06-12T19:44:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The OP said NOTHING about the person actually being eligible for the office, beyond not being dead. And non-fictional, so Picard is out. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/10 "2010-06-12T19:44:11Z")
Gregory Itzin. Plenty of practice on _24_, plus he has ten times the sleaze of anybody since Nixon. Ought the be a fun few years (way short of four, no doubt). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/11 "2010-06-12T19:53:07Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The OP said NOTHING about the person actually being eligible for the office, beyond not being dead. I stand corrected. In that case, would George Soros be too far out of line? He _is_ an author, after all. 😃 ---
**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 12, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/12 "2010-06-12T20:08:11Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > And non-fictional, so Picard is out. But Patrick Stewart is in, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![Staale\_Nordlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Staale\_Nordlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staale_Nordlie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/13 "2010-06-12T20:22:55Z")
[Teller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_(magician)). Utterly brilliant man with sensible political opinions. ([Penn Jillette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette) as VP. Or maybe Press Secretary.) ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/14 "2010-06-12T21:05:08Z")
Hey, how 'bout Al Franken! That might actually happen. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/15 "2010-06-12T22:02:41Z")
Catalina Cruz. It’s about time we get a _ **good looking** _ cocksucker in the White House\*😃 - with apologies to Robert Anton Wilson ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/16 "2010-06-12T22:45:22Z")
I hear Jaden Smith is getting pretty popular. ---
**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 12, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/17 "2010-06-12T23:02:12Z")
Hulk Hogan for president! ---
**Author:** ![fatbloke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@fatbloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatbloke)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/18 "2010-06-12T23:10:53Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > But Patrick Stewart is in, damn it! But Sir Patrick Stewart is British, so you’d get about 10 million southern fuckwit’s protesting that he must own BP and be responsible for the Gulf oil spill (bet he hasn’t got any shares in Halliburton…) Hence, like “Arnold”, he’s still ineligible. Nah! Just go for Sarah Pallin. You just know that she’d talk a load of shit, but you could have pervy MILF thoughts of her in fishnet lagging while cracking a wank :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/19 "2010-06-12T23:40:26Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Lewis Black. Smartest funny man I can think of. /vote I suspect he would be _highly_ incensed should he ever end up being the First Gentleman, though. Which makes the thought even more fun. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937/20 "2010-06-13T01:14:45Z")
Carmen Elektra because she would look good delivering the speeches in a bikini. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-an-actor-actress-singer-author-or-artist-to-be-the-next-us-president/542937.md?page=2)