When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President?
By Jeffrey Goldberg - Nov 5, 2012
And so we are finally here, and not a moment too soon. Every insult has been hurled, every fact misrepresented; positions have been shifted and ventilated and dissected and caricatured.
We know, more or less (less, in the case of one candidate) where the next president will come down on critical issues such as health care, taxation, deficit spending and Iran.
But there is one question -- a question of surpassing, even existential importance -- that was the subject of not a single debate question or policy paper: Which candidate, Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, would be better equipped to save civilization in the face of a global zombie uprising?
The mother of all 3 a.m. phone calls would begin like this: “Mr. President, very sorry to wake you, but it seems that a devastating pathogen has reanimated the dead and turned them into cannibals, and now they’re feasting on the living, especially in the swing states of Ohio and Virginia. Would you like me to assemble those members of the Cabinet who aren’t eating their deputies?”
A zombie invasion, although a low-probability event (only for the technical reason that zombies don’t exist) represents, in the words of Daniel W. Drezner, the author of “Theories of International Politics and Zombies” and a Tufts University professor, “the perfect, protean 21st century threat -- it’s terrorism and biowarfare and pandemic rolled into one.”
Drezner argues that zombies are a prism through which we can understand how governments react to supreme emergencies -- of obvious relevance in an era when disaster seems to be visiting us with great frequency.
Read the rest of the article here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/when-zombies-invade-who-do-you-want-for-president-.html
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what a question. Bravo.
Thats really a tough one.
At first, without thinking , Chuck Noriss. But thats not a serious answer.
Im not sure any modern political "celeb" would fit the roll.
Im not gonna asnwer now, but I think a more.calculated vs. a carring person would be a better choice to ensure the future of the race as well.as the country.
Keep the Walking Dead forums clean of the presidential elections. I hear you're making little girls cry with that stuff now.