Wait, I thought she was Chief Justice.
That was Bart. The early “Itchy and Scratchy Movie” episode where Homer forbid Bart to see it even if he reached the highest judicial office.
Merton Muffley-the president in “Doctor Strangelove”. A total wimp. When the Russian Ambassador gets the Russian PM on the phone he adds “be careful, Mr. President…he’s drunk!”
I think that was pretty much an Adlai Stevenson impression. Although the voters seemed to have similar opinion of Stevenson as you do of Muffley.
How about this? I’m not sure if it’s available on DVD, or even VHS, but it’s on You Tube.
Or this? Never saw the movie (also on You Tube) but it was a good book.
Could a white man get tapped for VP? Could something then happen to the President so your guy gets the big job? Yeah, that – isn’t that The Gerald Ford Story? Heck, a number of white guys have been tapped to play VP when a vacancy’s come up, sure as a number of white VPs have inherited the top slot.
But for a black man to get there in 1972, that simply won’t do; nobody’s putting him a heartbeat away from the Presidency; we need the President and the VP and the Speaker of the House to be simultaneously incapacitated so the Senate’s president pro tempore will get the job by default, as has never happened.
Now, that of course means we only get to see James Earl Jones as THE MAN due to the pro tempore job for some reason not being filled by the majority party’s senior Senator, because don’t fight the hypothetical.
God, how did I forget Jack Ryan?
Never mind the bizarre Series of Unfortunate Events that leads to his ascending to the Presidency; he would never have been nominated VP in the first place. Even by Tom Clancy’s standards and in the universe he created, he cannot come up with a believable reason why Jack Ryan would be the guy picked to be VP.
For Jack Ryan to get the job, the President pretty much just needs to (a) choose him as his VP, and then (b) stop being President. As has, y’know, happened.
For Douglass Dilman to become the President, we need folks to choose a black man to be president pro tempore of the Senate in '72, at which point the President and the Veep and the Speaker of the House need to simultaneously get incapacitated. You know, just like that time never.
Gotcha. I did not know that “The Man” was an actual movie - I must check it out.
Thanks!
The book itself was published in 1964.
BTW, 1972 saw the first serious black AND female candidate for POTUS, and they were the same person: Shirley Chisholm.
Seruious by her own standards, I’m sure. But by anyone else’s?
Shirley Chisholm was definitely a longshot in 1972, but
- She WAS a veteran member of Congress
- She was seeking the nomination of a major political party, the Democrats.
- She won 3 state primaries (New Jersey, Louisiana and Mississippi)
That makes her a “serious” candidate in my book, as opposed to, say, Harold Stassen or Gus Hall or Dick Gregory or Kinky Friedman.
:smack::smack::smack: I should’ve known that! Thanks for the correction. 
Superman didn’t campaign for either of Luthor’s opponents (Lex was running as an independent, and I think it was almost explicit that he was running against Bush & Gore). He had a long-standing policy against interfering in politics, and obviously it came backto bite him. I seem to recall him angsting to his fellow Justice Leaguers about it. (And “wrestling” with Wonder Woman in the Antarctic during her session.)
If you don’t count comedies, then I can’t mention Chris Rock. His run at the presidency was so awful that most people have forgotten it ever happened. I didn’t. I was permanently scarred because I was working for a mystery shopping company that made me count audience members in movies and I had to go to every single screening for an entire weekend. It was horrible. The flashbacks . . . shudder.
I didn’t know she won any primaries. Thanks for the info. Jeez, how does Herman Cain fit in as a “serious” candidate?
The Rock presidency in Head of State, if it were real, would still be less damaging to world peace, the world economy, and world sanity than if every person had to watch the Chris Rock-produced Pootie Tang for a weekend and still knew it was fictional. Mass murders and suicides, I’ll bet.
HEY HEY HEY!
Can’t we all just get along?!