Best TV President

[Darius871]

Logan

[notyoueither]

Bartlett and his staff made Democrats look good.

[-Jrabbit]

I was a huge West Wing fan. Great writing, great cast.
This is a no contest poll IMHO.

[St Leo]

"NIXON'S BACK!"

Gods, I wish Nixon was the current president. At least he was competent and pragmatic. Bush's hallmark is incompetent implementation of foolish, uninformed policies.

"Just remember what the Dormouse said; feed your head. I'm meeting you halfway on this, you freaking hippies!"

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Bartlett and his staff made Democrats look good.

Tru dat, a great work of fiction.

[RoboCon]

Hello there! I see you are discussing Nixon. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Watergate was among the more prolific hazards of a liberal media run amok. Edgy was Nixon wallking hand in hand with Chairman Mao, but not, as Imran might point out, with human rights in mind. Besides, any man who loves his Checkers wouldn't have to rely on the Senate to mandate social security reform. That was LBJ's doing, because tax and spend is never enough for liberals.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


Tru dat, a great work of fiction.

I'd wager they could have made even Republicans looks smart.

Something you must understand, the staff of Bartlet's White House were good people, with people's interests in their hearts. If they had been Republicans, that would have not changed.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun


I'd wager they could have made even Republicans looks smart.

Something you must understand, the staff of Bartlet's White House were good people, with people's interests in their hearts. If they had been Republicans, that would have not changed.

Of course. However, the writers were staunch Dmeocrats who decided to make Democrats look good and play up to every negative stereotype they could think of when protraying Repugs.

All that said I still enjoyed the show as it was a good piece of fiction.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


Of course. However, the writers were staunch Dmeocrats who decided to make Democrats look good and play up to every negative stereotype they could think of when protraying Repugs.

Are you certain you watched the show-- you know the one where--

Alan Alda plays a super-positive republican candidate

where the Ainsley Hayes character is a smart and funny republican that pwns Rob Lowe on television and later makes cogent arguments that turns presidential policy

where John Goodman is an honourable man in running the show when Bartlett recuses himself

how about the rightist judicial candidate they selected to balance a new leftist chief justice-- he was so smart and articulate

------I could come up with dozens more-- scenes where Republicans were portrayed positively-- But of course they were more often portrayed less positively for the simple reason they were the oppostion to most of what the supposed "good guys" wanted to do. I thought that was portayed relatively fairly-- Afetr all they had lots of episodes where they weren't exactly enamored with Democratic senators, congressman etc


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So Josh Bartlett in an easy choice for me

[Spec]

[Qilue]

I voted Josiah Bartlett. None of the others were capable of telling a decent joke. Mostly thought, it was that scene where Sam Seaborne (he was running for congress) introduced the president at a rally and when everything went quiet, Pres Bartlett was yelling this line into his phone -

"You can tell those poncy hairdressors they can stick the bread up their asses."

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by RoboCon
Hello there! I see you are discussing Nixon. Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Watergate was among the more prolific hazards of a liberal media run amok. Edgy was Nixon wallking hand in hand with Chairman Mao, but not, as Imran might point out, with human rights in mind. Besides, any man who loves his Checkers wouldn't have to rely on the Senate to mandate social security reform. That was LBJ's doing, because tax and spend is never enough for liberals.