11 Celebrities Who Should Run for President

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3. George Clooney — 5.5 points

Like Angelina Jolie, George Clooney is recognized as a legit diplomat and world thought leader. His activism has mostly been in the area of peacemaking, especially in the Darfur region of Sudan but really around the world as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. His wife Amal Clooney is a successful international human rights lawyer and many joked that Mr. Clooney was “marrying up” or that he was his new wife’s “trophy husband.” But her serious role on the world stage reflects her husband’s increasing interest in world events during his thirty-plus-year acting career — he’s no longer only the dreamiest doctor or campiest Batman.

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