Harrison Ford voted best movie President according to poll

[terrya]

What, no Henry Fonda in "Fail Safe"?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A president who can kickstart the U.S. economy may be favored by American voters this election season, but if left to movie fans voting in an online poll, a president who can kick butt would do better in the White House.

Harrison Ford, who played a U.S. president fighting airplane hijackers in 1997's "Air Force One" topped a list of fictional movie presidents people would most like to lead the U.S., according to a poll released on Thursday by AOL's Moviefone.com Web site.

Ford took 24 percent of the votes versus 16 percent for No. 2 Morgan Freeman, playing a president who must save mankind from a comet heading for Earth in "Deep Impact" (1998).

"It seems everybody is looking for a commander-in-chief who can come in and take command," said Moviefone editor-in-chief Scott Robson. "Our readers voted with their hearts at a time when you have the economy going down the tubes, but in an ideal world it would be great to have a president who can kick some ass."

Freeman is one of a handful of African-Americans to play a U.S. president onscreen, putting Hollywood well ahead of Barack Obama's historic 2008 White House bid.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081023/us_nm/us_president#full

[Bertha Venation]

1. I liked Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline

"The American President" and "Dave," respectively

[DS1]

2. After his judgment in choosing to be in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Palin

He needs a good shooting.

[jobycom]

3. It wasn't just kicking ass. He also struggled to balance family against country

and in the end placed family every everything, yet still found a way to save both. Very endearing character, even for a Chuck-Norris-as-president-on-a-plane style film. If people just wanted kick-ass, Bill Pullman would have been higher.

Glad to see the Morgan Freeman on that list. He was the only memorable part of that film.

This bodes well for Obama. Not the part about Morgan Freeman being black, but the part about the top choices being reassuring, confident individuals with eloquence and gravitas. One of McCain's biggest mistakes may have been trying too hard to be personable, and coming across as too lightweight in the process.

[LynneSin]

4. I read another poll that said it was Dennis Haysbert from "24"

:woohoo:

[Sabriel]

6. I'd vote for him

He actually had personal integrity, even when it hurt him politically. What a concept!

(I'm loving him in The Unit, too.)

[Bombero1956]

5. best TV President has to be

Martin Sheen.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. 2nd that

[XNASA]

7. Better than Merkin Muffley?

I don't think so.

[jpgray]

10. It's great to be fine.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I was about to go on a Henry Fonda rant

before I opened the thread.

His "Fail-Safe" performance was Oscar-worthy; you believed he was the president, talking to Khruschev, trying to avert a nuclear crisis.

It was particularly amazing when you consider he had no one to react to except in a few brief exchanges with Larry Hagman, who was also outstanding as the reluctant translator squeezed between the two superpowers.

Much of the credit has to go to director Sidney Lumet.