"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!!"Merkin Muffley![]()

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!!"Merkin Muffley![]()
Dude, he's an ex-fighter pilot who got elected President by like age 40. Of course he's arrogant.As much as I love Independence Day, I've always hated Thomas Whitmore. Arrogant asshole.
Bill Pullman as Thomas Whitmore in Independence Day...he didn't just make speeches, he lead the freaking attack against the alien invaders!
And he never faced Armageddon, but I'd vote for Jack Bartlett in a heartbeat!
I purposely did not mention Pullman to see if some one (kudos to you) would. He is my pick too. I just watched ID4 (and it looked great on Bluray) and that pep talk he gave before they launched the attack is, IMO, the best one ever given by a movie president!!!
PULLMAN 2012!!!
And it doesn't hurt that we get President Roselyn as his wife too!!
Rob
Yeah, except that I swear Brown deliberately makes the other presidents besides Martindale horribly corrupt to make him look better. The current president in the series, Gardner, is sleeping with his Secretary of State or something like that. He was also making backdoor deals with the Russians in an earlier novel.Kevin Martindale in Dale Brown's novels (space planes, robot bombers, rail guns, tehy're sci-fi) and certainly not Thomas Thorn his predecessor, who got America nuked in the American Holocaust.
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I purposely did not mention Pullman to see if some one (kudos to you) would. He is my pick too. I just watched ID4 (and it looked great on Bluray) and that pep talk he gave before they launched the attack is, IMO, the best one ever given by a movie president!!!
PULLMAN 2012!!!
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President Thomas Whitmore said:Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Bill Pullman as Thomas Whitmore in Independence Day...he didn't just make speeches, he lead the freaking attack against the alien invaders!
And he never faced Armageddon, but I'd vote for Jack Bartlett in a heartbeat!
I purposely did not mention Pullman to see if some one (kudos to you) would. He is my pick too. I just watched ID4 (and it looked great on Bluray) and that pep talk he gave before they launched the attack is, IMO, the best one ever given by a movie president!!!
PULLMAN 2012!!!
And it doesn't hurt that we get President Roselyn as his wife too!!
Rob
President Thomas Whitmore said:Good morning. Cheese. Cheese Cheese. Chedder. Double Gloucester. Red Leicester. Caemembert. Gouda. Edam. Stilton. Cheese. Cheese. Cheese. Today we celebrate our In-Brie- pendence Day!
We save the world, again, and that's how you repay us?fixedPresident Thomas Whitmore said:Good morning. Cheese. Cheese Cheese. Chedder. Double Gloucester. Red Leicester. Caemembert. Gouda. Edam. Stilton. Cheese. Cheese. Cheese. Today we celebrate our In-Brie- pendence Day!
Prime Minister Thomas Whitmore said:Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the First of July, and you will once again lobbying for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are lobbying for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the First of July will no longer be known as a Canadian holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Canada Day!!
Jack Nicholson in MARS ATTACKS!
"The American people still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them and that ain't bad!"
SPOILER AHEAD
Except, well, he doesn't survive the movie.
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