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Vacation Robo-Post: Your Favorite TV President

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | February 16, 2009 | +

Good morning, and welcome to your week of pre-programmed robo-posts. Today is President’s Day, which means two things: (1) I am on a plane, hightailing it out of New York airspace and trying not to think of water landings on the Hudson, and (2) it’s time for a TV President War!

Bartlet for America? Palmer for America? Or are you partial to Richard Nixon, the Futurama preserved-head edition? Cast your vote!

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  • http://www.bookhopping.wordpress.com Molly

    Definitely Bartlet. Admittedly, I’ve never watched 24 or Commander-in-Chief or any other shows that have had a president as a significant character, but I’m still pretty confident that Bartlet’s the best-written, most-nuanced TV president out there.

  • http://satellitetvguru.net/best-tv-president/ Best TV President? – Satellite TV Guru

    [...] throwing in my two cents for. Time’s TV blog recently polled it’s readers as to who the best on-TV president was, and you can pick anyone you want. Richard Nixon from Futurama for example, certainly [...]

  • plukasiak

    I don’t have a favorite president, but Martha Logan (jean smart) gets my vote for favorite first lady!

  • ipfletch

    Jed Bartlet, no question. David Palmer comes pretty close, though.

  • gketch

    Most definitely Jed Bartlet. I prefer to have a president in the White House who is both a reader and a thinker. Bush claims to have read a great number of books, but certainly can’t claim to be a thinker. I think Clinton had both, and so does Obama. But whatever Jed did, I trusted it was the right decision. And he cared for people.

  • shara says

    DEFINITELY President Palmer, from early seasons of 24. He was honorable, calm under pressure, thoughtful, intelligent, moral, all those good words that usually don’t apply to elected officials. . .

  • shara says

    Although I’ll admit to never having watched West Wing

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