Homer for President!

Britons Want Homer Simpson as U.S. President

from Reuters

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

Former president George 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. TV character should take over at the White House.

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

Pompous but eloquent radio psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane was third followed by Sergeant Bilko from The Phil Silvers Show. Gil Grissom from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was fifth with 10% of the vote. Other favorites were Jack Bauer from 24, The Cosby Show's Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Phoebe Buffay from Friends, and The Sopranos' Tony Soprano.