Obama almost touched his feet when greeting an Emperor

[mgb_phys]

Maybe we could build the perfect-President Robot or PPR. :

Positives:
Can walk unaided, climb stairs and recognise it's environment - which puts it ahead of many incumbents of the white house.
Only costs $1m, and can be rented for only $150K/year if you don't think you will win a second term.

It would need a few upgrades:
At only 130cm tall it would need to be stretched if the 'taller candidate always wins' rule is true.
To appeal to middle America it will need to be fitted with a V8 hemi
To appeal to soccer moms it will need more cupholders
Is it available in other body color options?

And to satisfy the constitution it will have to be built in one of Honda's plants in America - this time please remember to keep the original receipt.

 

[BobG]

Maybe we could build the perfect-President Robot or PPR. The PPR could travel around the world meeting everyones expectation all the time. His/hers/its speeches could be long lists of the current issues. He/she/it could perform foreign rights and customs flawlessly, even better than the locals. He/she/it wouldn't sleep, or take vacations at Camp David. He/she/it would not say anything that anyone else could find offensive. At that point the entire world would love America (USA). All peoples would envy our PPR.

I think we should consider these human leaders a temporary problem.

I once read a short story where a holographic representation of the Presidential candidate was used during the campaign because of security concerns (this was shortly after two different women attempted to assassinate Gerry Ford). To keep anyone from finding out about the illusion, the real candidate was kept in seclusion on a desert island. By time he won the election, he had decided he liked living on the island more than he liked the idea of being President and refused to serve. A committee ran the Presidency, using the holographic representation of the President to keep the public fooled.

By time re-election time rolled around, the holographic President had a reputation for being cold and removed from the public, since the holographic President obviously couldn't shake hands with anyone, kiss any babies, or meet personally with any other world leaders. To win re-election, the committee had to find someone human to substitute for the holographic President for the duration of the campaign - hopefully someone who wouldn't mind going back into retirement as soon as the campaign was over since the committee would have to eliminate the human if he tried to interfere with actually running the Presidency.

I can't remember how they found someone that looked like the holograph and how they convinced him to serve during the campaign and then immediately disappear, but it didn't work out very well. The human suddenly developed a desire to actually be the President and the rest of the story was a shoot-em-up between the substitute President (that many thought was actually the President) and the committee actually running the Presidency.