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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:27 PM
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Poll question: Which Fictional President Does The Current Dumb-ass In Chief Remind you of
If you don't like the three I give, give your own and tell why.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:30 PM
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1. President Gregory Ammas Stillson
...from The Dead Zone.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:36 PM
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9. That's exactly who Bush reminds me of.
And I absolutely wouldn't put it past Bush to hid behind a child if he were physically threatened.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:30 PM
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2. President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip from Sinclair Lewis's
"It Can't Happen Here".

From Wikipedia: "It Can't Happen Here is a satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who was modeled either on the flamboyantly dictatorial Huey Long of Louisiana, or on Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to fascism or Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders."
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The Deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:30 PM
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3. The Unamed POTUS
In "Wag the Dog", for obvious reasons.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:31 PM
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4. Bush kinda reminds me of this guy
Edited on Tue Jul-18-06 03:32 PM by C_U_L8R


and i'm just waitin' for him to
beam up to the mothership
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:44 PM
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16. With his 29%. n/t
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:33 PM
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5. An evil Chauncey Gardner
in "Being There."
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:35 PM
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6. Dan Hedaya's "Nixon" in "Dick"... /eom
TC
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:35 PM
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NightHawk63 Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:35 PM
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8. President Logan...
...from 24. What a total spineless idiot. Purposely let terrorist acquire nerve gas on US soil. Also, helped his "subordinates" cover-up the murder of a former president. But, even still, I'd be hard pressed to choose between him and the one we have now.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:39 PM
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13. I don't watch "24", but my husband does, and says the same thing
Logan reminds him so much of Bush.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:38 PM
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10. But not nearly as cool...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:39 PM
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11. Actually he reminds me of the brother in "Arsenic & Old Lace"
who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt.

Charge!!!!!!!!!!!!




Maybe we should get Junior to work on some lochs.

:rofl:

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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:39 PM
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12. Not Merkin Muffley from Dr. Strangelove but Buck Turgidson from same. n/t
PB
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:41 PM
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14. The fact that bush is President is stranger than fiction
He reminds me more or less like Charlie Manson and his supporters are the manson family. Note I don't mean to dispearage Charlie by comparing him to the chimp though.
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Oreo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:41 PM
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15. I would have to go with Martin Sheen....
Edited on Tue Jul-18-06 04:10 PM by Oreo
In The Dead Zone


The antithesis of Sheen in West Wing. For those that haven't seen it, Sheen holds up a child in front of him to block an assassin's bullet.
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NightHawk63 Donating Member (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:49 PM
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19. I totally forgot about that scene.
Very Bush-like!
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 04:36 PM
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23. Good call.
and a decent movie if you've never seen it. Has the wonderful Christopher Walken.
Sheen is evil and has the same cocky "regular guy" appeal of the swaggering Bush.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:46 PM
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17. Zaphod Beeblebrox as portrayed by Sam Rockwell
Rockwell played him as selfish, absolutely without empathy, stupid and enjoying a drink or two......
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:49 PM
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18. He reminds me of Dubya, the current Resident. n/t
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 03:53 PM
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20. Ferris F. Freemont of PKD's Radio Free Albemuth
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 04:08 PM
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21. Gov. William J. LePetomaine in Blazing Saddles


Had "GOV" stenciled on back of suit coat.
Said "we've got to save our phony baloney jobs."
Called ball paddle "defective" when he was too spastic to play it.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 04:27 PM
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22. Work, Work, Work
LePetomaine was a spot on Bush** prototype.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 05:09 PM
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27. hahah.."this friggin thing is warped. why do I always get the warped one"
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chrisau214 Donating Member (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 04:39 PM
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24. Greg Stillson
Although, thankfully, in that world Stillson never actually becomes the President.




Chris


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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 04:39 PM
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25. Furbush Lousewort
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-18-06 05:07 PM
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26. The President in the flick Americathon.....Chet Roosevelt
Edited on Tue Jul-18-06 05:12 PM by Ragazz68
played by John Ritter
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