If you could meet any modern-day politician, who would it be?

[Drawdown]

Is this not what I have been talking about in some detail? Are you deliberately trying to be argumentative?



^^ This. Thank you. THIS is what I am talking about.

Geez. :roll:

Interesting conversations require that both sides be interested in what is being discussed. Politicians are likely to want to discuss political stuff in their down time as much as a forklift driver is in discussing boxes of things they forked and lifted all day. Do it, and you will likely get potted meat responses.

 

[dorsai]

I saw this question on Twitter this morning, and thought I would pose it here.

If you could meet any modern-day politician, who would it be, and why?

Please no, “Donald Trump so I could throw a rock at him,” or, “Nancy Pelosi so I could push her in the mud.”

I chose John Lewis. He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. I’d love to sit and have a cup of coffee with him and just let him talk. I would venture to guess he has some pretty amazing, albeit heartbreaking stories.

Not a politician but very influential politically... Rush Limbaugh.

I first started listening in the early 90s and he was the first person that actually validated my thinking. I was making about $12,000 per year ($5/hr) and was outraged seeing some 60 minutes story about a heroin addict in California getting $30,000 per year from the government just for being an addict. That is when I became a fiscal conservative. Having grown up an Army brat, I was already a bit more patriotic and conservative than average. In addition, I find him highly entertaining, humorous, and engaging conversationally.

My second choice would be Tim Scott. I like the cut of his jib.

 

[Superfly]

Interesting conversations require that both sides be interested in what is being discussed. Politicians are likely to want to discuss political stuff in their down time as much as a forklift driver is in discussing boxes of things they forked and lifted all day. Do it, and you will likely get potted meat responses.

I give up.

The irony is just too rich.

 

[Superfly]

i'd like to have a cigarette and a large coke with Bloomberg.


















































:lol:

i keed, i keed. i quit decades ago. seriously, though, probably Ross Perot, even though he has passed. Perot was my first and probably most enthusiastic vote.

:lol:

Large Coke. I saw what you did there.

And Perot was also my first overly enthusiastic vote. I loved that guy.

 

[Superfly]

Not a politician but very influential politically... Rush Limbaugh.

I first started listening in the early 90s and he was the first person that actually validated my thinking. I was making about $12,000 per year ($5/hr) and was outraged seeing some 60 minutes story about a heroin addict in California getting $30,000 per year from the government just for being an addict. That is when I became a fiscal conservative. Having grown up an Army brat, I was already a bit more patriotic and conservative than average. In addition, I find him highly entertaining, humorous, and engaging conversationally.

My second choice would be Tim Scott. I like the cut of his jib.

I’m not a fan of Limbaugh, but he certainly has an interesting history. I did a paper on him in an Abnormal Psych class, and it was interesting what I found out about his childhood, etc.

 

[Helix]

:lol:

Large Coke. I saw what you did there.

And Perot was also my first overly enthusiastic vote. I loved that guy.

I had been eighteen for like three days, and I thought that dude might win. Ah, youth.

:lol:

 

[Superfly]

I had been eighteen for like three days, and I thought that dude might win. Ah, youth.

:lol:

:lol: Right? I was 24 and felt the same way. Was crushed!

 

[Drawdown]

I give up.

The irony is just too rich.

I don't think your giving up when someone thinks differently than you is ironic. It is pretty routine.

 

[Drawdown]

I had been eighteen for like three days, and I thought that dude might win. Ah, youth.

:lol:

He probably would have which was why he "suspended" his campaign. He didn't want to win. He just wanted to have someone to share his pretty poster boards with. I am fairly certain Donnie didn't want or expect to get the nomination, let alone win, either. It was a vanity exercise for him as well. He was just too vane to get when the getting was good.

 

[Helix]

:lol: Right? I was 24 and felt the same way. Was crushed!

Did you vote for him again in 1996? I was lazy, and didn't vote in that one. It is the only presidential election that i missed, and i regret it.

 

[Helix]

He probably would have which was why he "suspended" his campaign. He didn't want to win. He just wanted to have someone to share his pretty poster boards with. I am fairly certain Donnie didn't want or expect to get the nomination, let alone win, either. It was a vanity exercise for him as well. He was just too vane to get when the getting was good.

Suspending the campaign was a mistake.

 

[Drawdown]

Suspending the campaign was a mistake.

My dad said that while he was gleeful Perot did drop out as he was working for Bubba's campaign at the time, it never made any sense other than Perot didn't want to win because he was starting to break out right when he up and did that out of the blue.

 

[Cordelier]

I saw this question on Twitter this morning, and thought I would pose it here.

If you could meet any modern-day politician, who would it be, and why?

Please no, “Donald Trump so I could throw a rock at him,” or, “Nancy Pelosi so I could push her in the mud.”

I chose John Lewis. He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. I’d love to sit and have a cup of coffee with him and just let him talk. I would venture to guess he has some pretty amazing, albeit heartbreaking stories.

John Lewis is a great pick.

I think my pick would have to be Mikhail Gorbachev, though.... I think it'd be amazing to talk to him about all of the Kremlin intrigue in his rise to power, then Chernobyl, negotiating arms deals with Reagan, Glasnost and the end of the Cold War, the August coup, and then watching his country fall apart. He's definitely a man with a story or two to tell.

 

[Helix]

My dad said that while he was gleeful Perot did drop out as he was working for Bubba's campaign at the time, it never made any sense other than Perot didn't want to win because he was starting to break out right when he up and did that out of the blue.

I don't believe that.