President Who?

POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 02:58
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DREAMTROVE

Monday, October 31, 2005 5:39 AM

Okay, I'm going to start a thread here because I haven't done that in a while, and it seems that me and everyone else have been posting too combatively a little bit which is a sign of not enough active threads. I thought the political quiz was interesting but inaccurate, so here's a more specific question. It's a What If? kind of question, so all you sci-fi flans should do well with it.

The year is 2008, Bush has been impeached and managed to implicate Kerry and Hillary in his trial, as well as all of bush's own administration. Now only weeks left before the election, all of the candidates are in jail.

The supreme court and the congress agree that a dying alan greenspan should solve this dilemma, and he decides after a lunch with Kurt Vonnegut that he will try a novel approach. He calls a number completely at random and tells you to appoint the next president and vice president of the united states. He tells you that you must limit it to people who are eligible for the position, and not in jail, and currently holding a position in govt. from which presidents are commonly drawn, ie. governor, senator, congressman, or general. Who do you pick?

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 31, 2005 11:13 AM

There's a line of succession that goes beyond the President's cabinet which makes this post most unlikely.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

DREAMTROVE

Monday, October 31, 2005 2:28 PM

It was purely hypothetical

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 31, 2005 4:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
It was purely hypothetical

Well sure, if we could just ignore the whole Constitution thing, then ok.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

SIGNYM

Monday, October 31, 2005 4:40 PM

Okay, I'll bite! Russ Feingold and John Conyers. Or John Edwards and Dr. Dean. Or Barbara Lee and Bernie Sanders. Or any combination of the above.

Please don't think they give a shit.

SEVENPERCENT

Monday, October 31, 2005 5:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Well sure, if we could just ignore the whole Constitution thing, then ok.

Which is pretty much why it's called a hypothetical.

Anyhow-
I wouldn't mind a Reid/Obama ticket, or maybe Dean/Obama. Durbin/Obama woudn't be so bad either. Obama isn't ready for Pres yet, but I think he just might be in 10, 12 years. He really won me over a few months back when he wrote a letter to a local paper explaining how he voted on an issue in a way that he shouldn't have; that once he found out more information he wished he could go back and change his vote.

I like that attitude. I respect it, and it's something you don't see with this administration. Accountability - I made a mistake, the buck stops here, and I'm sorry.

GWB has done that once his whole Presidency, and even then it looked forced and unnatural.

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HERO

Monday, October 31, 2005 6:59 PM

I'd pick Alan Alda's character from West Wing. Pro-choice California Republican...without the accent.

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DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:09 PM

Lot of democrats I see.

Okay, someone said Feingold, I'll support that. If I don't have a decent republican. ie, if it's Feingold against JEB or Frist. A sane republican would obviously get my vote, but barring that, Russ Feingold would get it. Dick Durbin I would certainly consider.

Harry Reid would not be so lucky. I don't share people's fondness for Conyers, basically because I think he thinks he's better than everyone else and he did forward the draft bill, so he can't get my vote.

Obama is too green. So is Edwards. He would need to actually run for the senate again, and once in, he would need to actually show up.

Dean is too much of yale and bones team player.

So I've got Durbin and Feingold. I'll nominate them for a democratic sanity ticket.

I'd like to see if the republicans would like to forward some nominees so we could have an election.

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 4:02 PM

Joss and Tim!

Oh, wait, I'm in the wrong thread. Sorry.
*wanders out*

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DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 7:55 PM

I don't want Joss as president, because he wouldn't have time to make more shows.

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