Sherlock Holmes would be very analytical and Holmes could be his VP, so that might not be so bad.
Jessica Fletcher, AKA Angela Landsbury, would not put up with any nonsense while giving you a sense of fuzzy grandmotherly comfort.
Jackie Chan’s Chon Wayne and Owen Wilson’s Character from Shanghai Nights & Noon, I think would be a good combination of Honor, discipline, zen-metaphyscial BS and slo-mo pillow fights that congress is in desperate need of having.
Vote For Captain James T. Kirk for US President!
He’ll be good enough for the Future, & he’s good enough today! 
Havlock Vetinari.
I’m sure he could find some way to play the legislatures the way he plays the guilds.
Steve Rogers.
Mr Mxyzptlk.
Senator Jefferson Smith. Though he might need Senator Joseph Harrison Paine as his V-P to keep him in touch with some aspects of reality. (I know, the US Constitution wuld not allow them to be Pres and VP, but it would be a goiod combination).
Atticus Finch.
Dave from “Dave”.
Batman, if he’s prepared.
Another vote for Vetenari. And he’d make us think it was all our idea. 
I must be old.
Gandalf for President!
I’m already voting Jack Bauer for President.
Ooo! You took my vote. But I would also have to say Dave from ‘Dave’. I mean, he did a good job in the movie, even if it was overly simplified.
Forget Kirk. Jean-Luc Picard is a true Renaissance man, and never did he let his emotions get the best of him.
My vote? Max Headroom. We can’t do much worse than we have now, can we? 
Adam
I’ve got a couple of thoughts on this:
I’d love to see Justin Foote, of Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love.
Lazarus Long would be great too, but he’d never take the job.
Others:
Jack Ryan of Tom Clancy’s novels. He does a great job in the books, anyway.
Jack Sawyer from Stephen King/Peter Straub’s The Talisman and Black House.
And I would think that Gordon Dickson’s The Final Encyclopedia and the Dorsai series contain several great fictional presidents, especially Donal Graeme, Hal, and Bleys Ahrens. Ahrens would be great, although probably wouldn’t do too much on social issues and welfare…
Howard the Duck
–Get Down America!
(Heh, I just now got the pun!) :smack:
Don Shimoda
Jed Bartlet as written by Aaron Sorokin.
As this is the forum for fighting ignorance, I should tell you that that movie never existed.
No, it didn’t. Don’t argue with me. Everything you heard is a figment of your imagination. My, what a vivid one you have!
That would be Dave Kovic, and I was hoping to be the first to think of him.