# Who should be the next President on "24"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564 "2006-04-13T19:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/1 "2006-04-13T19:37:56Z")
Jack? Bill Buchanan? Chloe? ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/2 "2006-04-13T19:46:46Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Jack? Bill Buchanan? Chloe? Curtis. Self-rescuing President. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/3 "2006-04-13T19:51:47Z")
Henderson! We need to fill up the next few seasons somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/4 "2006-04-13T19:55:41Z")
How about Secretary of Offense Heller? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/5 "2006-04-13T20:57:06Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > How about Secretary of Offense Heller? That would seem to be the most likely choice, unless he gets caught in the crossfire in the coming feud between the Bauers and the Logans. Jack can be the chief-of-staff (finally poor Mike Novick gets to take a vacation), but naturally he’ll be forced to resign that post and return to CTU in hour 2. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/6 "2006-04-13T21:10:37Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > How about Secretary of Offense Heller? Excellent idea. The new terrorists would be Cubans. They could have obtained nukyular missiles. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/7 "2006-04-13T21:13:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Excellent idea. The new terrorists would be Cubans. They could have obtained nukyular missiles. Oh yeah – and then Heller could get assassinated. Somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/8 "2006-04-13T21:22:57Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > but naturally he’ll be forced to resign that post and return to CTU in hour 2. Which will take only 15 minutes, even if Jack is in Washington, D.C. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/9 "2006-04-13T21:31:13Z")
I jumped in to say Heller would be a great president, but (for dramatic conflict) I wouldn’t mind seeing President Leland Palmer. I mean, the current VP. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/10 "2006-04-13T21:41:21Z")
Dramatic conflict? Puh-leez. If you want drama, make Kim Bauer the Commander-in-Chief. Either her or Machine Gun Chloe. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/11 "2006-04-13T23:25:39Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Machine Gun Chloe. Or Secretary of State. She’d make John Bolton look like the Dalai Lama. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/12 "2006-04-13T23:30:28Z")
I’m still hoping that Sherry Palmer isn’t really dead. She’d make an interesting President. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/13 "2006-04-14T00:24:17Z")
My vote’s for Sec Def Heller – a suggestion I made earlier in this week’s thread, too. The 24-verse needs a non-wussy president who’s capable of making a decision for a change. And Heller’s not afraid to kick some ass, too. However, if they make him Prez, then it’s easier for Jack to do his job. So they’ll surely saddle us with another Prez who makes it harder for Jack to do his job, so he’ll have to spend more time going rogue. We could always have President Keeler return to office – he could run the country from his hospital bed in the ICU, which is where he probably still is, for all we know. His Vice President could be Lynn Kreske, helping out from the next bed in her full body cast. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/14 "2006-04-14T00:50:33Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > However, if they make him Prez, then it’s easier for Jack to do his job. So they’ll surely saddle us with another Prez who makes it harder for Jack to do his job, so he’ll have to spend more time going rogue. Personally, I wouldn’t actually mind, for a CRAZY change of pace, to see Jack actualyl work for CTU the entire season (something that has only happened in two out of the five seasons) and for him to have full backup the entire time (the closest to this was season three, where it looked like he was rogue, but he was just double undercover.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/15 "2006-04-14T01:44:09Z")
Chef. Er, Issac Hayes. Great vocals, he needs the work since South Park tanked for him, and it would answer the question in that famous thread, “Could a Scientologist be President?” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/16 "2006-04-14T02:35:50Z")
> [@Annie](#): > > Curtis. Self-rescuing President. A black President? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/17 "2006-04-14T06:27:33Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Dramatic conflict? Puh-leez. If you want drama, make Kim Bauer the Commander-in-Chief. Yeah, and just wait until she gets caught in a couger trap on the way to the mideast peace talks. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/18 "2006-04-14T06:34:48Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > A black President? It worked in blazing saddles. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/19 "2006-04-18T15:10:12Z")
Well, as Phil Leotardo said on _The Sopranos_ a week ago, my estimation of Secretary Heller just \*(#!ing plummeted. Is Leyland Palmer now our only hope, or will Heller redeem himself before the end of the day? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564/20 "2006-04-18T15:19:24Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > A black President? Just like President Palmer from seasons 2-3! I’m liking the suggestion of zombified Sherry Palmer as president though. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-next-president-on-24/352564.md?page=2)