# Your favorite fictional TV Show/Movie President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222 "2008-10-30T07:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/21 "2008-11-01T00:21:36Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Laura Roslin: My president can put your president out an airlock… Acting President Lee Adama can command me anytime:D. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/22 "2008-11-01T00:56:11Z")
I have a sneaking admiration for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho of _Idiocracy_. But my real favorites are Henry Fonda in _Fail Safe_, and Frederick March in _Seven Days in May._ ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/23 "2008-11-01T01:24:36Z")
Another vote for Jed Bartlet, who in addition to cursing G-d and putting a cigarette out on the floor of the national cathedral, told a religious fundamentalist, “Get your fat ass out of my white house.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/24 "2008-11-01T01:35:47Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I’d much rather have a President who understood economics and how to make decisions / delegate like Bartlett. Fictional presidents rarely face apocalyptic economic crises. But they always seem to be faced with incoming asteroids, Russian terrorists, etc… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/25 "2008-11-01T01:40:43Z")
How about James Garner and Jack Lemmon in **My Fellow Americans**? Talk about reaching across the aisle! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/26 "2008-11-01T02:28:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How about James Garner and Jack Lemmon in **My Fellow Americans**? Talk about reaching across the aisle! Heck, during the parade scene, it was practically reach _around_ the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/27 "2008-11-01T02:54:44Z")
Jed Bartlett in a landslide. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaVUjjH3EI) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/28 "2008-11-01T03:04:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How about James Garner and Jack Lemmon in **My Fellow Americans**? Talk about reaching across the aisle! Hail to the chief, he’s the chiefest of the chiefs? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/29 "2008-11-01T05:58:24Z")
I have a fondness, similar to a fondness for junk food, for President Whitmore in Independence Day. I can see the bad acting, the stiffness, the poor dialogue, but dammit, it’s Bill Pullman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222.md?page=1)