I'm ashamed to say that I was completely unfamiliar with the exploits of Jose Mujica, the onetime guerilla fighter who has been president of Uruguay since 2010. (So this is not "news" per se, but education is power.) Having been brought up to date by an excellent Simon Romero story on Mr. Mujica this weekend, we are prepared to declare him The President of Our Dreams Who Is the President You Would Design in Your Imagination But Never Expect to Exist in the Real World. Consider:

75 year-old Uruguayan president Jose Mujica says his only asset is a 1987 VW Beetle, worth $1879. His farm is in his wife's name, and he donates his salary. Clearly, this man's a tool of the pre-owned VW Beetle industry.