Best President you never had

[Sheilbh]

Inspired by CdM's Avatar, who do you think's the best President/PM/Chancellor you never had?

[Neil]

Preston Manning.

[Phillip V]

President Al Gore.

[Habbaku]

Goldwater.

[Queequeg]

Gore's response to 9/11 would have been moderate, and focused more on building Afghanistan than torture and madness.  Sensible economic policies.  Clinton-era talent.  My entire generation would have been much better off. 

EDIT: Maybe a third Teddy administration?

[Queequeg]

Goldwater.

....would probably have been a total, complete, unimaginably terrible president. 

[Ideologue]

Debs.

[Barrister]

Preston Manning.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

[katmai]

Preston Manning.

Is he related to Archie?

[Barrister]

Gore's response to 9/11 would have been moderate, and focused more on building Afghanistan than torture and madness.  Sensible economic policies.  Clinton-era talent.  My entire generation would have been much better off. 

EDIT: Maybe a third Teddy administration?

I think you can say that only W would have used 9/11 as grounds to invade Iraq.

But to think that a President Gore would have focused on "building Afghanistan"?  I think the last 4 years have shown us there isn't a huge amount separating the two parties when it comes to foreign policy.

[jimmy olsen]

T.R. - 1912

[Strix]

Alexander Hamilton

[Habbaku]

Goldwater.

....would probably have been a total, complete, unimaginably terrible president.

You don't have to express your partisan hackery in every thread, you know.

[Ideologue]

Man, I sure do.

[Habbaku]

I can't think of the last time you did.  Probably because you manage to express yourself in less douchey ways than Squeelus.