What foreign leader would you like to see run the U.S?

[o1pickleboy]

Which foriegn leader would you like to see as president and why? Be explain if any differences he/she would bring to the U.S from their countries culture, policies or experience.

[Dreadstar]

None. I seriously doubt they'd have the proper perspective.

[Gary_B]

Whatever you do, don't pick this guy!

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0104/012604harperstephen.jpg

[o1pickleboy]

None. I seriously doubt they'd have the proper perspective.


I am a firm believer in the "to close to the problem" method. Bussiness use outsiders to cut costs. Because their management won't make the right decisions. I believe may be to close to our problems to solve them correctly. I seriously believe we would benefit from a one time only "Outsourced President"

[BoosterBronze]

I know a certain foreigner who'd be perfect. He's an Israeli national with a long record of effective leadership. His name is Jesus Christ.

[Dreadstar]

I am a firm believer in the "to close to the problem" method. Bussiness use outsiders to cut costs. Because their management won't make the right decisions. I believe may be to close to our problems to solve them correctly. I seriously believe we would benefit from a one time only "Outsourced President"

Then we disagree. No problem.

[Motormouse]

The one on the left.

http://www.internetweekly.org/images/chirac_bush.jpg

[The Mirrorball Man]

This is a very seducing idea, because American politics have so much to do with traditions, collective myths and quasi-mythological figures that I think it would be a very refreshing experience for everybody if someone came in from an outsider's perspective and put the magical thinking stuff on a shelf for a little while.

On the other hand, those myths didn't come from nowhere, they're a part of American culture and I don't see anyone governing the country for long if he or she didn't at least pay lip service to them.

[king mob]

You can have Tony Blair. In fact you can take Gordon Brown and David Cameron as well.

[cactusmaac]

http://www.pm.gov.au/images/Official_photograph.jpg

[The Mirrorball Man]

http://www.pm.gov.au/images/Official_photograph.jpg
Captain Stubbing is not "a foreign leader".

[Forefinger]

I'm going with The Terminator.

[warspite1805]

Optimus Prime :D

failing that Pope Palpatine (would be entertaining and truly memorable

[Magneto_X]

Hugo Chavez or George Galloway.

[Magneto_X]

http://www.pm.gov.au/images/Official_photograph.jpg

God, no!

He's Bush Jr.'s Mini-Me!

[DennyK]

The King of Ice Cream

[JeffreyWKramer]

I know a certain foreigner who'd be perfect. He's an Israeli national with a long record of effective leadership. His name is Jesus Christ.

His being dead for 2000 years rather prevents effective leadership, though.

Really, I can't think of anyone. The US is too large and complex a system. Even people I quite admire - Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela, for example - clearly wouldn't be up to the job, given problems they had with systems both less complex and more familiar to them.

[Gary_B]

His being dead for 2000 years rather prevents effective leadership, though.

Really, I can't think of anyone. The US is too large and complex a system. Even people I quite admire - Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela, for example - clearly wouldn't be up to the job, given problems they had with systems both less complex and more familiar to them.

So foreigners don't have the smarts to do the job currently held down by W?!

That's funny stuff.

[Dan Apodaca]

Vaclav Havel

Tangent--

In my senior year of high school, our theatre program pretty much abandoned us. We were the second class to ever have a fourth-year curriculum, and they had no idea what to do with it, so they let us make up our own projects for the year. About ten of us formed a mini-company and produced three shows at three different theaters of Havel's play "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration".

We made about $400 for ourselves. It was a great play and a great experience.

--End tangent.

[Magneto_X]

So foreigners don't have the smarts to do the job currently held down by W?!

That's funny stuff.

Bush Jr.'s "job" is to clear brush at the range, go on holday, ride his bike and show up at photo ops.

My cat could do that.

[Iangould]

http://www.pm.gov.au/images/Official_photograph.jpg


You've never actually been to Australia have you?

[cactusmaac]

Of course not. I've read the Bill Bryson book. Every third animal there is capable of killing you in five seconds flat.

[Iangould]

Helen Clark, Prime Minsiter of New Zealand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark

Of course, if we aren't limited politicians currently in office (and we've already had Mandela and Havel) - former Australian Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam or Paul Keating.

[Paul McEnery]

The Dalai Lama would do for me.

[Ontir]

...and if the Dalai Llama is unavailable,

Victor von Doom! Why vote for the lesser of 2 evils! :p

[MJC]

So foreigners don't have the smarts to do the job currently held down by W?!



Of course, neither does W.

It's more a matter of perspective than smarts though.

[Royal]

http://www.21gladiators.com/pics/878.jpg

Not only will he gets things done. He'll save money on Security detail.

http://www.hyperfight.hpg.ig.com.br/Pride/MirkoCroCop_bushido3.jpg

[Pól Rua]

Captain Stubbing is not "a foreign leader".

That's what WE keep saying.

[JeffreyWKramer]

So foreigners don't have the smarts to do the job currently held down by W?!

That's funny stuff.

The question is "Who would do it well?" The fact the current guy on the job is doing a shitty job doesn't mean we want someone else coming in and doing a shitty job.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Tangent--

In my senior year of high school, our theatre program pretty much abandoned us. We were the second class to ever have a fourth-year curriculum, and they had no idea what to do with it, so they let us make up our own projects for the year. About ten of us formed a mini-company and produced three shows at three different theaters of Havel's play "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration".

We made about $400 for ourselves. It was a great play and a great experience.

--End tangent.

That would be about 100% cooler than any of my academic experiences of high school. Way cool. I'm glad you had such a cool experience.

Havel wrote a lots of great stuff. He's a very cool and interesting guy.

[howyadoin]

Did you say "run the U.S.", or "ruin the U.S."?

[Paul McEnery]

Did you say "run the U.S.", or "ruin the U.S."?
We don't need no stinkin' foreign scum to help us out with that.

[Nikita]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f215/Nikita2006/megaloman.jpg


I'm voting for this guy.

[Pól Rua]

King Solovar of Gorilla City.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Saddam_Hussein_%28107%29.jpg

He couldn't do a worse job.

And the guys who make shredders would have a boon business.

[howyadoin]

We don't need no stinkin' foreign scum to help us out with that."We"?

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[TheTen-EyedMan]

We don't need no stinkin' foreign scum to help us out with that.


I've washed and ironed your clothes for you.

http://mail.rcds.rye.ny.us/~anne_alexander/Witness/kkk-robe-l.jpg

:D

[Deskad]

Kim Jong Il.

[Royal]

Kim Jong Il.

Dude! I don't want the Senate floor riddled with questions about which Star Wars is better!

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Kim Jong Il.

The Donald Rumsfeld of the Asian pennisula.

[The Batman]

Augustus Caesar. That guy knew how to run a superpower.

[Iangould]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brown

Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly homosexual member of the Parliament of Australia. He created international headlines on October 23, 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for breaking with protocol and interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. Brown's Senate colleague, Kerry Nettle, was also suspended.

[o1pickleboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brown

Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly homosexual member of the Parliament of Australia. He created international headlines on October 23, 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for breaking with protocol and interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. Brown's Senate colleague, Kerry Nettle, was also suspended.



Are you saying we should have Bobby Brown lead us?

[Gary_B]

Are you saying we should have Bobby Brown lead us?

They say he's the cutest guy around.

[phoenixrising]

I'll take Victor Von Doom. Hell, why not at this point?

[Wesley Dodds]

I'll take Victor Von Doom. Hell, why not at this point?

He'd put the US on the "coins that have Doom's picture on them" standard.

[ragnarok_2012]

President Spike-X!

[Alex]

This thread is hilarious, if people are being serious.
If they aren't, then it's kinda blah.

[phoenixrising]

This thread is hilarious, if people are being serious.
If they aren't, then it's kinda blah.

Oh believe it - Doom 2008.

[BlairH]

Hugo Chavez or George Galloway.

3 Months then an armed rebellion. Count on it.

[Alex]

3 Months then an armed rebellion. Count on it.
You think it would take 3 months before theirs a rebellion under chavez?
Christ, i don't even want to imagine it.
All the milita groups would be like "Alright, this is our chance"
The military, similarly, wouldn't follow the guy, then it's all military vs militia, and chavez had power for roughly a week.

[Ontir]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f215/Nikita2006/megaloman.jpg

YES! TINA TURNER FOR PRESIDENT!
(She lives in Zurch, Switzerland, full-time, so she's kinda-sorta foreign now.)

[Wesley Dodds]

I think that if Hugo Chavez was President the people of the US would do sweet fuck all. As long as he doesn't try to cut off everyone's supply of McDonalds nobody would bother getting off the couch.

People would say "Well, I don't like his socialism, but I love his authoritarianism!" And vice versa.

In fact, Chavez is probably the perfect President for the US. Socialism to keep liberals happy and lots of cock-engorging jingoism for the conservatives.

"Oh, Hugo, tell me again how dumb and lame the French are, tell me."

[howyadoin]

cock-engorging jingoismHah. I must find a way to work that into a conversation today.

[Magneto_X]

Dude! I don't want the Senate floor riddled with questions about which Star Wars is better!

That would certainly make it amusing to watch. And seeing every politician in the room pee their pants because they don't want to piss him off. :D

[Magneto_X]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brown

Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly homosexual member of the Parliament of Australia. He created international headlines on October 23, 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for breaking with protocol and interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush. Brown's Senate colleague, Kerry Nettle, was also suspended.

Wow. This guy needs to be the prime minister of Australia, too.

[Magneto_X]

You think it would take 3 months before theirs a rebellion under chavez?
Christ, i don't even want to imagine it.
All the milita groups would be like "Alright, this is our chance"
The military, similarly, wouldn't follow the guy, then it's all military vs militia, and chavez had power for roughly a week.

Why wouldn't the military follow Chavez? They follow Bush Jr. & Cheney and they're much worse.

[Wesley Dodds]

He created international headlines on October 23, 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for breaking with protocol and interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush.

My favourite bit was where Bush interrupted Brown by saying "I love free speech."

Huh? OK, Brown's interrupting him, and now he's interrupting Brown. So, neither one will let the other speak freely. Also, Brown was breaking the rules by speaking while Bush was speaking. In fact, we wouldn't have even heard what Brown was saying if not for the foreign media because of parliamentary privilige.

If this is "free speech", free speech is the right to speak but not be heard. Or, alternately, free speech is the freedom of a President to lie and not be challenged. Either way some great dry humour from Bush.

[Rachel Grey]

Optimus Prime :D

Damn you for beating me to it!

Obligatory 'couldn't make things any worse' vote: Cthulhu.