Who is

[james_davis_nicoll]

The least Anglophone plausible candidate for the American Presidency? Accents don't count.

A potential POTUS who grew up speaking Spanish doesn't seem impossible. Or Cajun. And child-of-immigrants potentially offers any language on Earth as their milk-tongue.

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Or a modern Hellen Keller, but with physical disabilities that prevent the candidate from being able to write like her. Unable to speak coherently or hear, never knowing a single word of any language spoken by any other human, but able to communicate using a customized, hierarchical vocabulary tree that can be accessed via binary code. Output would be via a series of muscle twitches, input could be through a series of taps or electrical pulses to any bit of skin.


Of course, with voice synthesizers and translation programs, the candidate would actually be less impaired by spoken language differences than the other candidates.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the line of Bush the Lesser (or younger) level of spouting nonsense.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

After years of exposure to Steven Hawking we're accustomed to taking seriously a nigh-motionless human with a wheelchair and a speech synthesizer. This could work.

On the other hand, you do have to kind of take on faith that the person in the chair is also the one working the electronics. I'll let others make up their own list of politicians who seem to be animatronic dolls operated from off camera by a Dalek...