What To Do If The President Gets Bitten By A Zombie

And other science fiction inspired policy questions.

I figured we needed a more lighthearted thread on OTC.

Contact the Center for Disease Control and the Army's Chemical Biological Defense Command to quarantine him and investigate it. The CBDC might be needed to make sure it's not an assassination attempt on the behalf of some anti-government group.

Either way, that would really suck, and not just for President Obama, but for anyone in that position.

I'm sorry. Did I kill the mood again?

EDIT: I think the CBDC disbanded in 2003, or it was absorbed by other establishments in the Army. Maybe Batman could do something about it?

edited 26th Mar '11 9:35:32 PM by Aprilla

Shoot the President. Go down in history as the only guy who got away with it.

Leave him as he is. A shambling sack of flesh with an urge to eat brains will probably get more done in office.

edited 26th Mar '11 10:06:52 PM by Pykrete

Immediately disinfect the wound and he'll be fine. There's not a virus around that peroxide doesn't stand a near-certain chance of eliminating if applied immediately.

If there's a delay between the bite and treatment of more than a few minutes, though, you might have to amputate the limb it's on (assuming he is bitten in an extremity).

This is covered under the twenty-fifth amendment. The President is deemed unable to preform the duties of his office by the Vice President and Cabinet. This results in his immediate removal from power and a transfer of authority over to the Vice President.

This would give the US an opportunity to try out section four of the amendment.

Meanwhile, the general public flip out over the fact some lunatic has obtained power over death itself.

EDIT: Regarding similar hypothetical scenarios, what does the Secret Service do if the President becomes suicidal?

edited 26th Mar '11 10:25:03 PM by Pentadragon

What about the werewolf and vampire scenarios?

Vampire: If he sparkles, send Buffy after him. If he picks up a Southern accent leave him be.

What do you do if you walk into the Oval Office and, instead of the president, you see a veloceraptor?

I walk up and shake President Philosoraptor's hand.

Don't convince him to nuke the rest of the world.

Start a zombies' right movement and make zombies official citizens, of course.

I would call Obama out for being populist enough to try to cash in on the zombie craze and tell him to switch back before he loses his support base.

Give an emergency State of the Union Adress with Zombie POTUS. Barricade the Capitol's doors shut from the outside until everything inside is a zombie. .

Then sterilize the damn place.

edited 27th Mar '11 6:25:01 AM by SavageHeathen

If a politician, summon the opposing party to the white house, lock them in as they start getting infected, barricade the lot of them into the white house under pretense of preventing the contagion from spreading, and burn the building, instantly getting rid of the leadership of the opposing party.

Addendum: and then manipulate my way to the top of the party and declare a one party dictatorship with myself as President.

edited 27th Mar '11 7:30:15 AM by GameChainsaw

Declare him a good politician?

fixed link http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/24/rush_limbaughs_very_important_question_and_zombies

You need to tinyurl it. Fast Eddie intentionally set it up to autohypenate to mess up something that trolls do.

1. euthanize the president.
2. Place vice president in power.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!