Competency Test

I like this idea of a presidential game show of sorts to test a candidate's ability to actually be president.

I think the comments are more to the point (as is sometimes the case) and they present better features than the original post.

My ideal presidential game show would include at least these two features: the knowledge test jeopardy, containing questions on the american founding, constitution, laws, basic economic savvy, stuff everyone should know. This was suggested on the site by poster "Christina":

Since Celebrity Jeopardy routinely humiliates its participants by exposing their ignorance on basic knowledge, I think a kind of Presidential Jeopardy would be equally useful.

Ha, guess who would lose that round?

and a war game as suggested by a "PH":

A virtual war game. Make them play-out one of those Pentagon war game scenario games in front of the public, and then be questioned on their decisions.

Maybe Matthew Broderick could provide some occasional voice-over play-by-play from the a room in the back - like in Celebrity Poker. Each week you could have a guest co-host: Schwarzkopf, Powell and Berger etc...

Much more entertaining and enlightening then lame debates. Can you imagine Democrats fighting a war game? Me neither. They'd try negotiating with enemy tanks. Not like some of the Republican front-runners would pass the economic questions either.