In My Dreams

My lovely fiancee watches The West Wing for some unknown reason. Maybe I should mention this to her, which was sent to us by loyal reader RB...

Doughnut-inhaling, beer-quaffing Homer Simpson may not be the model father, but he has won the hearts of British TV fans who want the cartoon nuclear power plant worker to be the next U.S. president.

Former President George H.W. Bush notoriously said American families should be “closer to the Waltons than the Simpsons,” but Homer was overwhelming favorite in a Radio Times magazine poll on which U.S. television character should take over at the White House.

As Americans ponder tax and security pledges from President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry ahead of the Nov. 2 vote, television fans have been considering Homer slogans such as “No big government, just big waist sizes.”

In a manifesto compiled for the magazine by “The Simpsons” writers, the bumbling animated TV hero also pledges: “I promise there will be fewer nuclear disasters with me as your mayor than with me as your nuclear safety inspector.”

Homer got 24 percent of the vote in the poll of more than 2,000 readers. Second place went to the more obvious choice of Josiah Bartlett, the president as played by Martin Sheen in “The West Wing.”

You know, maybe the Brits aren't drunk as my earlier post indicated. They definitely can pick a better President than Aaron Sorkin.