Kenneth Yamaoka.
Assuming Trantor is a natural successor to the US, I would choose my namesake.
Sleazy P. Martini! I already have the T-shirt “Sleazy enough to be President”
Super.
2 minutes of talk, 3 minutes of Significant Looks.
Hey, if he’s not talking then he’s not lying to you and he clearly couldn’t care less about the sound bite.
Given nothing else to work with but insight, Johnny Smith managed to save the world. But, one, imagine he’d had the full resources of the White House; and, two, imagine the State Of The Union address being … delivered … by Christopher Walken.
Might be a few too many issues with a cyborg as President, how about when he was still only Alex Murphy? But then that raises the question of how different he was after the life-experience of becoming Robocop.
Veidt’s heart is definitely in the right place (the comic shows this much better than the movie, where he had Generic Bad Guy written all over him) but I’m not sure how comfortable I would be with a President who is willing to make such extreme sacrifices for the greater good.
I’m fairly sure someone born in 1979 isn’t 43 years old in 2018. 
Kirk won’t even be born for another 200+ years. And at that point in time, the USA doesn’t even exist any more (I don’t believe).
But hm…budgetary constraints and the desire for action usually make it so that people who show up in film and TV, at most, only command a dozen or so people. The only exception to that is, in general, the President himself - at which point you’re having to look to see if any of them were still in their first term.
The only non-President that I can think of who wasn’t evil, wasn’t incompetent, and commanded a fairly large organization and is set in modern day America is Nathan Stark from Eureka. And even if he wasn’t vapor, he’d not really be my lead contender if we were comparing to real humans. I feel like if you’re going to dip into fiction, it’s to try and find some amazing representative of humanity, and Stark has some notable flaws.
16/64 = 1/4 because you cancel the 6s, see?
The math is wrong, but the conclusion is right.
Ah I see, thanks, maths was always a weak point for me
So I guess that makes me…ummm…67…or 13…now I’m not sure…
My thought within a nanosecond of reading the thread title.
Guess I’ll have to go with Jack Bauer then. He’s got a bit of torture in his background, but he had to do it or else Tens of thousands of people would die!!!
There’d be lots of action involved with any Kim Jong Un meeting too.
Dang, I wish Hermione Granger were eligible! Ditto Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan. So I’ll have to go with Katniss Everdeen - assuming that District 12 is really Maryland/West Virginia/Pennsylvania.
captain america he has military and leadership experince.
[Lisa Simpson-see I would have been ninja’ed several times…]
I believe there was a comic book in which he became President. He didn’t have the Secret Service, since he believed he could take care of himself.
If we’re thinking of the same comic, Cap still has the Secret Service; it’s just that he overpowers a would-be assassin, at the swearing-in ceremony, before anyone else can effectively react — which of course prompts one of his guards to immediately make a quip along those lines, but IIRC it doesn’t actually become policy.