# which hollywood star would you elect president? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510 "2005-08-18T01:07:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/21 "2005-08-19T02:48:43Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/22 "2005-08-19T03:17:09Z")
How about Jack Pallance or Lee Marvin? If for no other reason because we are living in some very brutal and violent times. I wonder how either one of these guys would have spoken and acted after Sept 11, 2001. “I just disemboweled Osama Bin Laden … with my teeth … Believe It Or Not” How about James Earl Jones for White House Press Secretary? THE voice of authority. “Sam Donaldson - ask that question again, and it will be your _last_.” And not to neglect the female gender, how about Teresa Russell as Secretary of State? (Remember her in “The Black Widow”?) * * * **Ranchoth** - you’re a Teddy Roosevelt fan? All right !!! I think he was our best president. Man, he did it all. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/23 "2005-08-19T03:29:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Samuel L. Jackson, of course. Who’d fuck with him? I smell a Chappelle show skit. Oh, wait… ☹ Bruce Dickenson for prez. Believe in the power of the cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/24 "2005-08-19T03:53:00Z")
Ron Jeremy You guys saying Bill Maher, are you serious? The guy comes across to me as this close to batshit crazy in addition to being a total pissant, regardless of whatever political views he has. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/25 "2005-08-19T04:15:46Z")
John Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/26 "2005-08-19T04:21:14Z")
Count me in on the Teddy R. for life and bring him back to life platform, but Op asked for Hollywood Star and I want to provide a living one: I’ll go for old fashion moderate republican and very smart. Ben Stein Barely a star but has some political experience. Keeps up to date of foreign affairs and would maybe bring the country back towards the center. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/27 "2005-08-19T04:25:38Z")
Michael Moore, Marilyn Manson, or… The no-brainer choice… **Stephen King!!** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/28 "2005-08-19T04:26:20Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Ben Stein > > Barely a star but has some political experience. > > Keeps up to date of foreign affairs and would maybe bring the country back towards the center. He was a speechwriter (for Nixon and Ford, I might add), not exactly a politician. 😉 He’s a smart man, but I don’t think a Nixon loyalist is the guy we need these days. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/29 "2005-08-19T04:27:01Z")
Umm… I mean, the _most obvious first_ choice, of course! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/30 "2005-08-19T04:27:48Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Clint Eastwood. Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/31 "2005-08-19T04:37:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > He was a speechwriter (for Nixon and Ford, I might add), not exactly a politician. 😉 He’s a smart man, but I don’t think a Nixon loyalist is the guy we need these days. Well, while Nixon was a horrible, nearly evil, definitely nasty man, I actually think he was a better President then either Bush Sr. or Jr. and more effective then Carter. Nixon was a toad, he was a McCarthy supported and got elected despite this. He was good at foreign policy, actually got us out of that damn war that he did not start. Allow many environmental laws to go in. I did not say he was a politician, just had some political experience, but actually he did run for a local election as a Dem, before going to work in Whitehouse. This was while he was a poverty lawyer. I saw a Biography on him last year. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/32 "2005-08-19T06:24:19Z")
Nixon also helped establish relations with Red China, and canceled U.S. bioweapon development. But, again, this is about Stein, not Nixon. (Though Stein, according to Wikipedia, is a pro-lifer, which is a notch against any politician in my book. ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/33 "2005-08-19T07:18:55Z")
With the exception of Eastwood, I don’t think there’s been a serious post yet, or am I just clueless (probably both). I like Tom Hanks. He’s someone we could trust, would back environmental causes without being too radical, could probably communicate well with foreign leaders. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/34 "2005-08-19T07:26:34Z")
None. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/35 "2005-08-19T07:49:08Z")
Not sure if it counts, but at times I wonder if Dennis Haysbert would be as good a president in real life as on TV. Then I realize if he were, he’d never get elected… ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/36 "2005-08-19T08:01:22Z")
Angelina Jolie, but I might have to wait another five years if I’ve got my sums and my constitution right. Anyway, by then I’ll be even more randy and she’ll still be smokin’ like a Chinese peasant. And by then hopefully she’ll have dumped Pitt and be back in her Anglophilic phase. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/37 "2005-08-19T08:07:14Z")
Morgan Freeman or Sidney Poitier. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/38 "2005-08-19T08:11:05Z")
I like the idea of Samuel L. Jackson. Especially in his black-suited big afro Pulp Fiction look…_Do I look like a Bitch?_ ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/39 "2005-08-19T08:27:32Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > …she’ll still be smokin’ like a Chinese peasant. I’m gonna need to ask what you mean by this. I’m intrigued. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510/40 "2005-08-19T09:02:48Z")
I’d be happier with Sam as director of some insidously powerful covert security agency with superhuman operatives and a badass HQ off New York Harbor. We need a brother who’s urbane and badass. Denzel, baby! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hollywood-star-would-you-elect-president/317510.md?page=3)