# Pre-Poll: Pick the next President
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 4, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469 "2011-08-04T15:17:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/41 "2011-08-05T05:25:10Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Martin Sheen.
Fuck it. Charlie Sheen. We need more leopard blood in the Oval Office.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/42 "2011-08-05T07:03:18Z")
Zombie Lincoln.
Plus we get Jessica Alba as First Lady. Bonus.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/43 "2011-08-05T07:46:59Z")
Chuck Norris. Assuming we are still worthy.
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### Author:  [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/44 "2011-08-05T08:03:30Z")
Out of politicians - Andrew Cuomo. I wish his father had tried harder to succeed in 92, but he is pretty good in his own right.
For a non-politician - George Clooney. I think he would shake things up and would not take any BS from Congress. And Brad Pitt for his VP.
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### Author:  [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/45 "2011-08-05T08:55:29Z")
Roseanne Barr. She’s really running for President.
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### Author:  [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/46 "2011-08-05T14:39:24Z")
Cecil Adams
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/47 "2011-08-05T15:36:45Z")
> [@Katriona](#):
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> Only if they promise to send Opus out for snacks and make him the VP candidate again!
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> Damn, I wish I could find my 1984 “Don’t Blame Me…I Voted for Bill ‘n’ Opus” tee.
More Bloom County silliness:
“Let’s nominate Jesse Jackson”
“Are you crazy, we’d alienate half of America.”
“Then how about we nominate Jesse Helms?”
“We’d alienate the other half.”
“Let’s alienate everybody. Jesse & Jesse in 1984!”
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/48 "2011-08-05T15:45:06Z")
“This time, why not the worst?”
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/49 "2011-08-05T15:46:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Tied for first so far-2 votes for Geoffrey Canada and 2 votes for Rachel Maddow.
I think you also have 2 votes for Bill Clinton and 2 votes for Hillary Clinton, even if (for some strange reason) you say that Bill was born outside the U.S. (And I’ll note that, if Slick Willie had been born outside the U.S., he had so many political enemies that at least one of them would have noticed it over the years 1992-2000, and sought his impeachment on those grounds.)
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/50 "2011-08-05T15:53:01Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> I think you also have 2 votes for Bill Clinton and 2 votes for Hillary Clinton, even if (for some strange reason) you say that Bill was born outside the U.S. (And I’ll note that, if Slick Willie had been born outside the U.S., he had so many political enemies that at least one of them would have noticed it over the years 1992-2000, and sought his impeachment on those grounds.)
I do believe the vote for “Bill the Cat” was for the Bloom County character, not the former Prez.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/51 "2011-08-05T17:14:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Zombie Lincoln.
Might be a job getting him out of his tomb. They encased his coffin in two tons of concrete in 1901. They _said_ it was to discourge grave robbers, but we know the truth.
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/52 "2011-08-06T00:15:55Z")
Jeremiah Wright.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/53 "2011-08-06T00:56:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I do believe the vote for “Bill the Cat” was for the Bloom County character, not the former Prez.
No:
> [@Giles](#):
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> William Jefferson Clinton, but he fails to qualify on other grounds.
> [@bup](#):
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> Bill Clinton.
I didn’t see a vote for “Bill the Cat”, but two for the husband of the current Secretary of State.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/54 "2011-08-06T01:07:27Z")
Magnitude. Pop pop!
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/55 "2011-08-06T03:44:49Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> No:
> I didn’t see a vote for “Bill the Cat”, but two for the husband of the current Secretary of State.
Thanks for the correction. Two for the former Prez it is, then.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/56 "2011-08-06T07:15:39Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> I didn’t see a vote for “Bill the Cat”, but two for the husband of the current Secretary of State.
[Hey](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14100575&postcount=5)!
Although, Czarcasm claims he was “born in Cuba.” And some may take issue with his being a fictional cartoon character and, well, dead.
But I say, “[this time why not the worst?](http://www.cybercauldron.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/bill.jpg)”
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/57 "2011-08-06T13:26:53Z")
I would love to see Bill Clinton come back in office and straighten things out (again). Since that won’t happen let’s give Hillary a shot. Pretty sure she had a hand in it while Bill was in office, so turn about’s fair play!
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/58 "2011-08-06T13:57:56Z")
> [@PapSett](#):
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> I would love to see Bill Clinton come back in office and straighten things out (again). Since that won’t happen let’s give Hillary a shot.
Just a reminder that for the purposes of this poll it _can_ happen.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/59 "2011-08-06T19:11:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Just a reminder that for the purposes of this poll it _can_ happen.
I love that in a thread where Atticus Finch, Bill the Cat, Ralph Wiggum, Underdog, and Zombie Abe Lincoln have been accepted as choices, a third term Bill Clinton is considered unreasonable.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/60 "2011-08-07T03:42:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I love that in a thread where Atticus Finch, Bill the Cat, Ralph Wiggum, Underdog, and Zombie Abe Lincoln have been accepted as choices, a third term Bill Clinton is considered unreasonable.
Actually, those are joke posts that don’t qualify, and thus won’t make it to the poll. Bill Clinton qualifies, and will probably be on the poll list.
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