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Compare [[Our Presidents Are Different]].
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== The actual politician, in person ==
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* The Canadian sitcom ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]'' had two Prime Ministers make cameos (Paul Martin and Stephen Harper), along with a smattering of Members of Parliament and mayors.
* Former Swedish prime minister Göran Persson at one point appeared on a kid's show, and danced with a woman in a cow-suit.
* Al Gore appeared on the [[Executive Meddling|network-mandated]] [[Green Aesop|green episode]] of ''[[
{{quote| '''Al Gore:''' Quiet! A whale is in trouble... I have to go!}}
** He also makes quite a few appearances in ''[[Futurama]]'', owing to his daughter having worked for the show.
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* Two NYC Mayors, specifically Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, have appeared on ''[[Law and Order]]''.
* One 2008 episode of ''[[WWE]] [[WWE Raw|Raw]]'' featured campaign speeches from [[Barack Obama]], Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. Later in that same show, Obama and Clinton impersonators went head-to-head in a wrestling match .
* British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher performed a [[Self
* John [[Mc Cain]] had a walk-on role in the fourth season of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]''.
* NYC Mayor Ed Koch appeared in ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]''.
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* As mentioned above, Obama appeared in ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' but he was not the first president to appear in the pages of that series. Both [[Bill Clinton]] and [[George W Bush]] have appeared in the past.
* In the first episode of the live-action version of ''[[The Tick]]'', the heroes must save former president Jimmy Carter from a communist [[Killer Robot]]. The fact that it's not a real cameo is lampshaded by making him [[The Faceless]].
* ''[[The Games]]'' had [[
* Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy had a brief [[The Cameo|cameo]] (with one, defiant line) as a guest at Bruce Wayne's party in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''; it's unclear whether or not he's supposed to be playing himself, although it's certainly possible. Leahy is a big fan of Batman, so... [[Ascended Fanboy]], anyone?
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