- Barack Obama
- Bernie Sanders
Tamerlane. No, not me - the real one. Just imagine how high you could stack towers of skulls with the aid of modern computer models!
And if you thought foreign nations were scared of Ronald Reagan, well…
Foreigner: Stephen Fry
Past: Ronald Regan
Current: Not sure. Definitely not any of the current Republican candidates. I’m not thrilled with Obama either.
I guess anybody who is socially and economically moderate, or, if Republicans get control of the Senate, keep control of the house, or continue to have a big influence such as being able to threaten filibusters then I’d want a strong democrat in the White House to balance them out.
For budget speeches, he’d have to change his catchphrase from “billions and billions” to “trillions and trillions.”
I thought of Tamurlaine, but decided that was a bad idea.
Napoleon Bonaparte, now, we could compromise on him, I hope.
1st choice - Russ Feingold
2nd choice - Barack Obama
3rd choice - Heck, why not: Bernie Sanders
Awesome post/username combo. 
Thanks. 
Barack Obama
Isaac Asimov
Carl Sagan
Comes with pre-written campaign songs, too!
When life seems full of clouds an’ rain
and I am filled with naught but pain,
who soothes my thumpin’ bumpin’ brain?
Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman from Texas. “We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.”
Joe Biden - it’s not a gaffe. It’s a trick play. If I were President Obama, I’d resign the day after the the 2016 elections just to stand back and watch Biden’s moment in the sun.
Theodore Roosevelt. No further explanation necessary.
Franklin Roosevelt. No further explanation necessary.
Harry Truman - the president least tolerant of bullshit.
George Washington - Imagine for a moment that Peter B. Lewis was also one of the greatest generals of all time. Reading the history books about the writing of the Constitution and the early days of Federal Government, the authors don’t usually identify Washington as particularly talented - most ascribing his success to dogged dedication. But he was, and he had to have been. “First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League”
Pierre Trudeau - great judgement, grand ambition, and total accomplishment. Fun, too.
Joe Clark - Duct-taped a functioning government together from the junk drawer. If I were more cynical I’d say he was exactly who we needed.
Bill Weld - Massachusetts tried three more Republican governors in a row after him trying to find one that was as good. If you want somebody who’s a top-notch administrator and a true down-the-middle weathervane, they don’t come better.
Bill Bradley - A serious heavyweight, capable of controlling the direction of any debate on policy he’s in. Go to the local public library, look at how thick the 1985 “how to do your taxes” book is, and compare it to the 1986 book.
Ralph Nader, 1984 version, but he has to win a gubernatorial election in 1980 and serve four years first.
One last one.
Barack Obama - For all the plodding and backtracking and apparent aimless circling, he’s certainly gotten us a long way forward in three years. It’s a bit like seeing a basketball player only get people’s attention when the announcer calls out that he has just hit 30 points two minutes into the fourth quarter. I’m not going to vote to cut him. Half Bill Weld, half Genghis Khan.
Barack Obama.
Well, he does have charisma.
Adlai Stevenson.
I’m picturing this being sung by Eric Idle.
CS Lewis and Christopher Hitchens wouldn’t be too bad a POTUS either. Too bad British intellectuals are not that interested in becoming politicians.
Newt Gingrich.
The complete elimination of capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, and interest taxes for all American citizens who earn 1 cent or more.
Sylvester Stallone. San Angeles seemed like an awfully nice place to live, except for the lack of sex and restaurants that were not Taco Bell.
Not Hitchens, I don’t want a POTUS who drinks that much. Lewis . . . interests insufficiently worldly; political issues being transient things of this world, of trivial importance compared to the spiritual states of human souls; and he was expressly against “Christianity and . . .” Democracy or Socialism or anything else, linking faith to politics eventually makes faith an instrument of politics and distracts Christians from keeping their souls right with God. Unlike Orwell, who was agnostic and whose interests were entirely worldly, and sociopolitical. And artistic, but he (almost) always rooted his art in society and used it for commentary.
Churchill was a pretty poor peacetime leader. I’d go for Clement Attlee myself, or William Gladstone.