Who would make a good President?

[cmkeller]

Pat Moynahan.

[Homer]

I’m fuckin’ serious, ya see. I’m gonna change my major to pol sci. Look for me in 2020.

–Tim

[MaxTheVool]

*Originally posted by plnnr *
**The problem with the question is that all of the people who would be good Presidents would rather die than take the job. I can’t say that I blame them. The American people are extraordinarily fickle, too pampered to have to endure what it would really take to make the big, institutional changes needed to straighten out most of society’s problems, and, by and large, idiots. And before I get flamed - I’m an American and I’m just calling it as I see it. Tsongas actually stood up and said, “Listen, I’m not here to tell you what you want to hear. Things are going to have to get tough and difficult if you want to make real change in this country.” We got Bill Clinton instead (and yes, I voted for him).

**

—>it can’t be quite that simple, otherwise we would never have had any decent presidents… although I expect that media hyperexposure makes it even more difficult today than in the past for a truly decent person to become president. On the other hand, there are a reasonable number of bad traits (arrogance and lust for power being two) that don’t necessarily a bad president make. Look at FDR trying to stack the supreme court…

[handy]

aha.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

Aha??

You want a Norwegian 80’s rock band to be president?

[mblackwell]

I think handy meant the American 60s rock star.