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Question: Who is your favorite fictional President (from movies, Tv, etc)?
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Frank Underwood (House of Cards)		  
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Selina Mayer (Veep)		  
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Fitz Grant (Scandal)		  
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Merkin Muffley (Dr. Strangelove)		  
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Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact		  
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David Palmer (24)		  
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Andrew Shepherd (The American President)		  
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Jackson Evans (The Contender)		  
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Mackenzie Allen (Commander in Chief)		  
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Thomas Whitmore (Independence Day)		  
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James Marshall (Air Force One)		  
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Josiah Bartlett (The West Wing)		  
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Other (write-in)		  
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« on: November 04, 2016, 06:52:58 AM »
http://graphics.wsj.com/image-grid/44-fake-presidents/

My choice is Harrison Ford as President James Marshall in Air Force One...he was KICK-ASS.
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2016, 09:01:45 AM »
Underwood is the only one of these characters who is not a complete wank of the writer's fantasy President, and even he is very unbelievable at times.

How Lawrence O'Donnell got a talk show for writing "The West Wing" is beyond me.
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2016, 10:10:42 AM »
Quote from: ChairmanSanchez on November 04, 2016, 09:01:45 AM
Underwood is the only one of these characters who is not a complete wank of the writer's fantasy President, and even he is very unbelievable at times.

I don't think Merkin Muffley is that. (Merkin Muffley is, of course, my answer.)
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2016, 01:37:54 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2016, 01:49:31 PM »
Chet Roosevelt (as played by John Ritter in Americathon)
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2016, 04:29:24 PM »
Bartlet/Palmer 2016!!
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2016, 04:40:01 PM »
Quote from: Хahar 🤔 on November 04, 2016, 10:10:42 AM
Quote from: ChairmanSanchez on November 04, 2016, 09:01:45 AM
Underwood is the only one of these characters who is not a complete wank of the writer's fantasy President, and even he is very unbelievable at times.

I don't think Merkin Muffley is that. (Merkin Muffley is, of course, my answer.)

Except that Muffley is a Stevenson analogue, and Stevenson beating Ike is fantasy inherently.

And where's Garret Walker from House of Cards? Excluding him would be like forgetting Collingridge if this were about fictional British PMs.

I guess Muffley's my answer though.
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« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2016, 01:10:25 AM »
Jed Bartlet hands down
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« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2016, 04:55:25 AM »
Frank Underwood by far.
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« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2016, 01:49:33 PM »
Quote from: ChairmanSanchez on November 04, 2016, 09:01:45 AM
Underwood is the only one of these characters who is not a complete wank of the writer's fantasy President, and even he is very unbelievable at times.

How Lawrence O'Donnell got a talk show for writing "The West Wing" is beyond me.
He was staff director for the Senate Finance Committee, and an aide to Senator Moynihan.
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« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2016, 07:53:59 PM »
Favorite: Bill Pullman in Independence Day. That speech he gave about "not going quietly into the night" was the most inspirational political speech i heard till Obama at the '04 convention.

Runners-up: Merkin Muffley, Josiah Bartlett

Worst: Kevin Spacey in House of Cards. What a scumbag.
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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2016, 03:10:11 PM »
Quote from: Хahar 🤔 on November 04, 2016, 10:10:42 AM
Quote from: ChairmanSanchez on November 04, 2016, 09:01:45 AM
Underwood is the only one of these characters who is not a complete wank of the writer's fantasy President, and even he is very unbelievable at times.

I don't think Merkin Muffley is that. (Merkin Muffley is, of course, my answer.)

This. Listed options sucks.
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« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2016, 04:41:49 PM »
WI: James Sawyer(White House Down)
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« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2016, 04:48:22 PM »

Ew
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« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2016, 10:00:53 PM »
Pullman, for sure.  Probably a 'Pub, too, given the clues. Tongue
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« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2016, 11:27:15 PM »
Jack Ryan  Tom Clancy Universe
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« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2016, 06:17:04 PM »
Selina Meyer.
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2016, 10:36:48 AM »
I don't know but my favorite fictional Governor of Massachusetts is Wallace Wooley from the 1942 Veronica Lake/Fredric March vehicle I Married a Witch, who only won because his witch wife United-Russia-in-Chechnya'd the ballots with magic.
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