Which politicos would you invite to diner ( dead or alive).

[SomthingsGotaGive]

For your fantasy diner party who would you invite.

Mine would be....

Noam Chomsky
John Lennon
Micheal Moore
George Bush Sr.


I'd love to see Noam Chomsky and GHWB go at it in a debate.

I'd love to hear John Lennon's take on the last 20yrs

I'd really love to see Micheal Moore hold Bush Sr. down while Chomsky, and Lennon slapped him silly.

[clonebot]

1. i'd like

machiavelli and an english translator on one side and the entire bush co. on the other.

edit: televised of course, that way we can see bush co. come to the conclusion themselves that they are evil.

[goclark]

2. Nelson Mandela

he is my absolute hero.

[seventhson]

3. Rudolf Breitsheid, Rudolf Hilferding, Trotsky, Che, Malcolm X and

Freidrich Heine.

Heine, Breitschied and Hilferding were the top antiNazi opposition to Hitler until the purges of 1932 and would be full of advice on what NOT to do.

RFK and MLK and Biko too.


I think I would want Che and Malcolm most, though, because of my admiration for the way they stood up to and were murdered by the Bush-Nazis.

[mzmolly]

4. Wellstone, Mandella, Ann Richards, Bill Clinton, Molly Ivins, Barak Obama

Martin Luther King, and so on ... I know I'm forgetting somebody!

Like your guest list also. ;)

[bvar22]

5. I would enjoy dinner the most with...

...Jimmy Carter and Paul Wellstone.

[mitchtv]

6. Willie Brown, Harvey Milk, Geo. Moscone,

John and Sala Burton, And Leo Ryan, and compare the old days with now.I would like gov Mc Greevy, and Mayor Gavin Newsom,his wife Kimberly,and Hillary, and the Mayor of Baltimore.

[Jim Sagle]

7. Paul Krugman, Randi Rhodes, Joe Conason, Joe Lockhart, John Kerry.

[homerthompson]

8. If I could invite someone to dinner, dead or alive...

I'd choose alive.





*snicker* while patting myself on the back

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore,

WES CLARK!!!, Ted Kennedy, Sheila Jackson Lee, George Miller, Charlie Rangel and Christiane Amanpour.

[jeffrey_X]

10. Nelson Mandella, Malcom X, Stephen Biko and MLK

nm

[6th Borough]

11. Pol Pot and Idi Amin

Certainly would be interesting...

[Hanover_Fist]

12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

and that's it.

[gauguin57]

13. Sorry ... I'm inviting all Dems. Jimmy Carter, George McGovern,

Walter Mondale, Mo Udall, Hubert Humphrey, Bob Kerrey, LBJ, Franklin Roosevelt, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Teddy Kennedy, Harry Truman, Adalai Stevenson, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton ... wow, I'd better put the leaf in the table!

The Dead Kennedys can buy their own dinner -- for themselves and Marilyn Monroe.

[kestrel91316]

14. Let's see..............

Jimmy and Roselyn Carter, the Clintons and Chelsea, Paul Wellstone and wife, FDR and Eleanor, JFK, Bobby Kennedy. We could chat and maybe change the world. I could impress the hell out of them with my home cooking.

[kestrel91316]

15. Oh and of course the Kerrys and the Edwards'..................n/t

[WLKjr]

16. I would want Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman.................

FDR, TR, Lincoln, Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Washington.

Oh and I almost forgot, John Kerry, John Edwards, Ghandi, and Howard Dean.



It would be a political Wonk-Fest :)

[punpirate]

17. An interesting question...

... which first raises the question of the optimum number of people for the perfect dinner party. Too few and it's banal. Too many and it turns into a verbal (or literal) food fight.

But:

Mohandas Gandhi (just to remind everyone that non-violence works)

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (good sense of humor and relinquished control of the government in favor of constitutional democracy)

Winston Churchill (not necessarily because I agreed with all his politics, but he was undeniably a good orator and had a wit of truly significant proportions)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (because I want to hear what she has to say about being used by Bush)

Albert Einstein (because I'll bet he'd have a lot to say about the world today and how far it's slid downhill since he advocated better world government)

Golda Meir (not because I especially admired her politics, but because I'd be curious to know what she thinks about what's happening now)

Thomas Jefferson (just so he could comment on the current state of the country he got started)

Anne Frank (to get the young adult point of view)

Franklin Roosevelt (to see what he thinks about the current attempted destruction of the New Deal and the effects of the global economy)

Eleanor Roosevelt (to see what she thinks of the world in general)

Sojourner Truth (because she could have a lot to say about economic, political and spiritual repression)

And, of course, George W. Bush (so he'd finally get the education he wasted in college)

An even dozen. I'd just stand back and watch what happened. :)

[K8-EEE]

18. My Husband Sat Next To Michael Moore At A Screening

of an Academy-nommed doc (you have to see them all theatrically in order to be eligible to vote) and said he was a very nice, low key and self-effacing type of guy.

He's welcome over here any time!!

[Yupster]

19. I would love to hear a discussion between

Mohatma Gandhi and Robert E Lee on the topic of "duty."

I think it would be wonderfully enlightening, polite and civil as could be. The only words I'd say would be "more coffee?"

[Yupster]

20. Who's old enough to remember

the old Steve Allen show where he brought in guys dressed as historical people and they discussed politics and philosophy around a table.

Can't remember the title of the show, but I was a loyal watcher.

On edit -- thanks to Wikipedia, it was called "Meeting of Minds"

[urbanguerrilla]

21. GHWB, bar none

what's a good truth serum?

[Tangledog]

22. Benjamin Franklin

Basically because of all the people in history I know about, Franklin was the least likely to be bored. He was interested in absolutely everything.

[kodi]

24. Benjamin Franklin came to my mind immediately.

We are as a civic nation what we are more because of Franklin than any other man.

but my dream dinner is joeseph campbell, gore vidal and aldus huxley and alan watts.

[Eloriel]

23. Will Rogers, Mark Twain AND

Howard Dean. :evilgrin:


Edit: And maybe Harry Truman, since he's Dean's hero.

[Dude_CalmDown]

25. Gee, who would I like to see dead at my dinner table?? Hmm tough choice.

I just know that I'd need a bigger table.

[juajen]

26. It depends upon the diner, maybe I 'd invite

Kerry to The Hub City Diner, but Bush I'd take to Tracy's Pub in Broussard. Oh, did you mean dinner? I am the slef-appointed spelling police, ya know. (Gotcha, I left that "slef" in there on purpose.) Now ya'll straighten up and spell right, ya hear?

[Dude_CalmDown]

27. Who taught you how to spoke? n/t

*

[More Than A Feeling]

28. Bill Clinton, Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama

Clinton because he is my favorite president and I would love the chance to pick his brain on the ins and outs of running for office. The Pope and the Lama because they represent my economic and social views, respectively, as determined by politicalcompass.org. Hell G. Dubya can stop by too, because I have a feeling that his presidency has had a permanent impact on my fragile little mind. I am forever scarred because of him, so we might as well have it out.

[autorank]

29. The Greats Meet Our Next President

Pericles (strong under extreme stress)
William Pitt the Elder (of the 'Sitting Speech' where he reamed King George to his face for fighting our revolution...he was the British PM at the time)
Nelson Mandela
FDR, and my main man
John Kerry

The whole purpose would be to allow Kerry to learn from these political geniuses.

Dinner would be served by Katherine the Great and her retinue of courtesans who would hang around for the after dinner festivities.

[DeepModem Mom]

30. T Jefferson, M Moore, B Clinton, Sally Hemmings, Rosa Parks, Eleanor...

Roosevelt, President-Elect John Kerry and Mrs. Heinz Kerry.

[JSJ]

31. cheney, bush, hastert, rehnquist- the whole stinkin' lot

'Honest', officer, I don't know how the wolfbane got in the salad.

[Bunny]

32. Gandhi. He wouldn't eat too much.

Oooh, sorry about that...

[dorktv]

33. Bill Maher and well that would be all.

Because he strikes me as very polite.

[Roy Robertson]

34. Bill O. Douglas, Gene McCarthy, Izzy Stone, and Tom Jefferson.

And we'll have pizza and beer at Steffanie's, down the street.
No way am I farting around in the kitchen with those guys at my table.

[Sputnik]

35. Wes Clark, Will Rogers, Jon Stewart, Barack Obama,

James Carville (but only if he leaves Mary at home), Rahm Emmanuel, Dale Bumpers (both a hilarious and eloquent man....read his book!), and the Big Dog himself.

I know I should include a woman, but I'd love having all those men to myself. I'd even wear somethin' real purty for the occasion. :*

(sigh)

[NicRic]

36. Still alive & deceased picks !

Still living>
#1 President Clinton
#2 Mario Cumo
#3 Mayor Newsome
#4 Next President Kerry

Deaceasd > #1 President JFK
#2 President Franklin D. Rosevelt
#3 President Harry Truman
#4 Jonh Kennedy Jr.


These are just picks off the top of my heas ,had I took more time to go over the many choices the list may have changed somewhat ? I can say that President Clinton would always be on the list , weather or not he would remain in the #1 slot ,Iam not sure of ?
NicRic
KERRY/EDWARDS 2004

[dansolo]

37. Obama and Dean, Eisenhower and Nixon

I would be very interested to hear how Ike would view the Republican party of today. And for all his faults, Nixon was a very intelligent and thoughtful man, especially about foreign policy. I think it would be facinating to hear his take on the War on Terrorism in a setting where he wouldn't need to be propping up this administration. Obama and Dean I believe are the soul of the Democratic Party, and are our hope for the future.

[SomthingsGotaGive]

38. Great responses thank you all

It's interesting to see how many people would dine with the devils.

I would like to add Muhammad Ali.


sorry about the typo in the title Dinner not diner.

[Spider Jerusalem]

39. Hm.

Thomas Jefferson. Or possibly Winston Churchill. Maybe FDR. Perhaps all three, but no more. I loathe large parties, unfortunately.