Buster Keaton for President

Joe Thompson · Post by **Joe Thompson** » Sat May 21, 2016 9:28 pm

I hope I am not violating any rules about mentioning commerce or politics. I am not involved in the manufacturing or sale of the tee shirt. I might order one:
https://teechip.com/busterfor#id=0&c=13 ... -t&s=front

westegg · Post by **westegg** » Sun May 22, 2016 6:43 am

I think an older image of Keaton would've been more amusing.

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sun May 22, 2016 4:56 pm

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Jim Roots · Post by **Jim Roots** » Mon May 23, 2016 8:01 am

I remember the Pat Paulsen campaign, which was probably the most riotous of any of the samples posted by JFK.

Especially memorable was the Smothers Brothers show right after the election. A half-bombed, half-exhausted Paulsen stumbled his way through election detritus to deliver some kind of speech to the camera. It was the most authentic post-election image I've ever seen on TV or in the movies!

Jim

Mitch Farish · Post by **Mitch Farish** » Mon May 23, 2016 12:04 pm

Keaton's perfect, everything we could want in a President - unflappable under pressure, whose earnestness always prevails in the end. Anybody else like that out there? I thought not.

Jim Roots · Post by **Jim Roots** » Tue May 24, 2016 5:58 am

Mitch Farish wrote:Keaton's perfect, everything we could want in a President - unflappable under pressure, whose earnestness always prevails in the end. Anybody else like that out there? I thought not.

Well, W.C. Fields is pretty unflappable, at least when he's got a snootful. Earnest? Maybe not, but always does the right thing in the end.

Unfortunately, Ulysses Grant has already proven drunks don't make the best presidents.

I like the t-shirt, though!

Keaton for prez, Fields for veep?

Jim

maliejandra · Post by **maliejandra** » Tue May 24, 2016 6:28 am

I love Pat Paulsen! His delivery was perfect and he was so clever.

Spiny Norman · Post by **Spiny Norman** » Tue May 24, 2016 7:35 am

Jim Roots wrote:Unfortunately, Ulysses Grant has already proven drunks don't make the best presidents.

Wasn't there a statesman a few decades ago who famously didn't smoke or drink, and who was a vegetarian? Now what was his name again...

wich2 · Post by **wich2** » Tue May 24, 2016 8:56 am

All that is true -

- but The Paperhanger did do a LOT of "prescription" dope!

Rollo Treadway · Post by **Rollo Treadway** » Tue May 31, 2016 10:58 am

I'd rather be right!

Jim Roots · Post by **Jim Roots** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:57 am

I think Veep is channelling that "Four Marx Brothers For Vice President" concept right now...

Jim

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:26 pm

Donald Binks · Post by **Donald Binks** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:24 pm

I should like to read Gracie Allen's "How to Be President". I am sure it would make more sense than anything else available of late?

Tommie Hicks · Post by **Tommie Hicks** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:39 pm

I have an early 70's reprint of the Fields book in which he admits to "smoking a cannabis cigarette".

wich2 · Post by **wich2** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:55 am

As long as being a wealthy entrepreneur is consider qualifying - let's go all-out!!!

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