# What fictional character would make a good President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462 "2004-10-04T15:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/1 "2004-10-04T15:01:28Z")
**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. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/2 "2004-10-04T15:09:29Z")
Vote For **Captain James T. Kirk** for US President! He’ll be good enough for the Future, & he’s good enough _today!_🙂🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/3 "2004-10-04T15:15:46Z")
Havlock Vetinari. I’m sure he could find some way to play the legislatures the way he plays the guilds. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/4 "2004-10-04T15:16:51Z")
Steve Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/5 "2004-10-04T15:21:23Z")
Mr Mxyzptlk. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/6 "2004-10-04T15:22:34Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/7 "2004-10-04T15:29:54Z")
Atticus Finch. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/8 "2004-10-04T15:54:07Z")
Dave from “Dave”. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/9 "2004-10-04T15:58:50Z")
Batman, if he’s prepared. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/10 "2004-10-04T16:01:19Z")
Another vote for **Vetenari**. And he’d make us think it was all our idea. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/11 "2004-10-04T16:08:45Z")
I must be old. 🙂 **Gandalf** for President! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/12 "2004-10-04T16:16:50Z")
I’m already voting **Jack Bauer** for President. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/13 "2004-10-04T16:19:38Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Havlock Vetinari. > > I’m sure he could find some way to play the legislatures the way he plays the guilds. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/14 "2004-10-04T16:43:57Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/15 "2004-10-04T17:07:51Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/16 "2004-10-04T18:08:15Z")
Howard the Duck –Get Down America! (Heh, I just now got the pun!) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Niceguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mr.Niceguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Niceguy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/17 "2004-10-04T18:20:16Z")
Don Shimoda ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/18 "2004-10-04T18:27:18Z")
Jed Bartlet as written by Aaron Sorokin. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/19 "2004-10-04T18:57:23Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > Howard the Duck > –Get Down America! > > (Heh, I just now got the pun!) :smack: 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! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462/20 "2004-10-04T19:17:14Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Dave from “Dave”. That would be Dave Kovic, and I was hoping to be the first to think of him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-would-make-a-good-president/267462.md?page=2)