WEEKEND OPEN BAR: who’s your president?

[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]

Presidents suck.

Maybe there’s something in the White House water. Or maybe it’s the fact that it takes an elevated level of egotism and self-righteousness and disregard for human life to serve as Commander-in-Chief. But the fact of the matter is that any individual who’s ever been President of the United States of America has sucked.

JFK. Reagan. Lincoln. Washington. FDR. Hayes. Clinton. Fillmore. Boneheads, the lot of `em!

Tuesday is Election Day, and as such the people of the United States will head to the polls to decide which miscreant is going to have a place in the Oval Office. There’ll be television coverage and petty spats between friends who don’t understand why they’re voting for their respective candidates and it’ll be the abysmal illusion it always is. Don’t resist, just revel.

With that being said, let’s take the time to engage in a much more important discussion. Something that matters to us. A topic that has actually affected our daily lives.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE FICTIONAL PRESIDENT?

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In my humble estimation, President Thomas J. Whitmore is the high watermark in American leadership. Check out his credentials – he’s a veteran of the Gulf War, he’s got a babe of a First Lady, and his best friend is a Mog!  When an alien invasion hits, does Whitmore shirk from responsibility and hide in a subterranean bunker? Hell no! He calls up Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, drops the most inspirational speech of all movie history, and pilots a goddamn fighter jet.

President Whitmore has inspired me more than any of the schmohawks that’ve actually called the White House home. So don’t tell me he’s not real. `Cause, I mean, what the hell is reality anyways, man?!

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WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE FICTIONAL PRESIDENT?