And now..THE PRESIDENT!

[William Leisner]

Merkin Muffley

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!!"

 

[Admiral_Young]

President Elizaberth Levy is the Earth Alliance President in In the Beginning....have to echo the statements about Thomas Whitmore. Also wasn't there a big bit about the critics in the movie questioning his military service or something? I remember there being a line about his service in the Gulf War.

President John J. Sheridan...Robert Scorpio did say we could name Presidents or leaders from Earth.

Also about the poster who commented on the 24 President, um...there were reports of rioting in several episodes and I belive in a couple of seasons the President had to order marital law in order to prevent it.

 

[Skywalker]

As much as I love Independence Day, I've always hated Thomas Whitmore. Arrogant asshole.

Dude, he's an ex-fighter pilot who got elected President by like age 40. Of course he's arrogant.

I loved that speech in Independence Day. Sure, it's jingoistic as hell, but it was a great moment.

 

[sojourner]

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

Too bad she died before the end of the movie.

 

[LutherSloan]

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.

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.

 

[Mike Farley]

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PULLMAN 2012!!!
/QUOTE]

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!

 

[TheBrew]

Awesome speech.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, he might be an arrogant asshole, but he delivered an awesome jingoism speech.

 

[roguephoenix]

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

poor roslyn. she gets to be first lady and president and dies in both. >_<

 

[captcalhoun]

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!

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[Skywalker]

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!

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We save the world, again, and that's how you repay us?

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

From the original version of the script, which was not well-recieved by Hollywood producers:

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!!

 

[Skywalker]

Oorah, eh?

 

[Possum]

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.

Hey! I was going to pick him too. Even dead he gets two votes.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Several worthy candidates mentioned notwithstanding, I submit President Jack Ryan from the "Debt of Honor"/"Executive Decisions"/"The Bear and the Dragon" trilogy.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

No question the President in ID4 gets the prize!

As for Presidents for whom is just sucks to be them, the American President from the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums." Even when they pushed the big ol' reset button at the end of "Last of the Time Lords," he's one of the few that stays dead.