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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:20 PM
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Poll question: Who would you rather have Thanksgiving dinner with?
No, this is not the Presidential candidates. This is political journalists, pundits and activists. So many to choose from...
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:23 PM
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1. Helen Thomas! Think of all the dirt she could share and she is SO sharp and funny! nt
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:26 PM
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6. Helen for me too. She knows everything. :)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:23 PM
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2. Helen Thomas
Forget having a beer with someone... she looks like someone you could have a few large cocktails with. :)
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:23 PM
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3. none of the above.
I'm happy spending thanksgiving with the 19 delightful people I'll be spending it with: An artisan cheesemaker, a newspaper editior, an architect, 2 horticulturists, a music teacher and assorted wonderful kids.
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Tejanocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:24 PM
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4. You have to rule out NeoCon Christopher Popinjay Hitchens based on the potential size of the bar tab
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:42 PM
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13. why are Hitch and MoDo even in this poll?
Krugman wasn't available? Eric Alterman wasn't available? Katrina vanden Heuvel wasn't available?
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:24 PM
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5. Keith Olbermann but if the poll is who I'd rather have FOR dinner, then it's Stephanie Miller
:evilgrin:
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 10:45 PM
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38. Ditto. nt
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:26 PM
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7. Helen Thomas! n/t
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RavensChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:28 PM
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8. Keith! Who else?
Besides, I don't like carving the turkey so he can have the honors!
:7
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:29 PM
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9. Hands down - Helen!
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:30 PM
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10. I have had the fortune to have a conversation with Helen Thomas
I am sure it would be a great conversation over turkey
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:33 PM
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11. Keith, because I'm so thankful for the way he's spoken out...
...on our behalf ~ there were times when he truly did seem like the lone voice in the wilderness!
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:41 PM
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12. Steph
gotta go with Mama!
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:28 PM
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27. Me too.
Momma would bring the box o' wine.
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durrrty libby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:43 PM
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14. Hitchens, just to hear his version of "saying grace"
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 05:44 PM by durrrty libby
:rofl:

And I'm sure there would be some high quality scotch available
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CnAnPB Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:44 PM
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15. An year ago Cindy Sheehan would
have won this DU poll hands down IMHO
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:55 PM
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16. Hitchens, because he's a drunk and a raconteur
I think it would make for interesting conversation.
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Stop Cornyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:06 PM
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20. Hello ... a drunk and a raconteur and a douchebag. It would only make for an interesting meal if he
choked on a Bush pretzel.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:51 PM
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30. Here's your whopper, a pack of smokes, and a bottle of scotch. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 05:57 PM
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17. I pick Patrick Fitzgerald.
But he's not listed. So I went with Helen Thomas. Sorry Keith. :)
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:01 PM
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18. I love Helen Thomas, but that photo of her looks like last Thanksgiving's leftover mashed potatoes!
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Labors of Hercules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:17 PM
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21. no kidding! Can you find a better photo of Helen?
or is it too late?
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Labors of Hercules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:24 PM
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25. here's one:
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:26 PM
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26. Oh geez, that's not much better than zulch's!
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 06:27 PM by mtnsnake
I knew it wasn't going to be easy!
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:02 PM
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19. Helen Thomas WOULD have been my first choice
But I have dinner with her a couple of times a year anyway,
so I picked Keith Olbermann, as I have never met him.

Chomsky was a close second.

For those who have never met Helen, and picked her--wise choice!
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:59 PM
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31. Just let me know the time and place of your next dinner with Helen, and I'll
be happy to accompany you!

Lucky you - I'm envious! And I've no doubt you're just as much as a delightful dinner companion as she!
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:04 PM
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32. I rather doubt I could compete in her league!
She happened to be a decades-long friend/colleague of my father's,
and so the rest of my family has known her for close to forever.
I'll be seeing her again in Washington in January. We haven't set
the time and place, yet, although her favorite Lebanese place, Mama
Ayesha's, off Connecticut Avenue, was AWESOME! She often has breakfast
at a hotel downtown, where this was taken last May, with my younger daughter
and my wife:
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:11 PM
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34. What a fabulous photo - and what a beautiful family! I have no doubt Helen
enjoys your get togethers immensely. Have fun in January!
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:15 PM
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35. Thanks, we will try!
My elder daughter is no slouch, either. Both my daughters had the common sense
to acquire a healthy dosage of my wife's genes!
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:21 PM
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22. Keith...He's fit right in with everyone in our family in so many ways.
The guys would love his talk on sports and politics and appreciate his kind of humor. The girls would love his discussions on politics, his humor and gazing into his eyes. I'd make him remove his glasses before dinner so I could bet a better look deep into his beautiful soul.

PS I'd also ask him to invite Helen Thomas as his dinner guest. lol
Oh what a ball we would have!
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:21 PM
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23. Kewl poll zulch, I voted Helen
Though Keith has my heart, she has my soul :hi:
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:23 PM
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24. I got to go with Helen...
...sorry Keith.

She has such an incredible life experience I would want her to stay the entire Thanksgiving Weekend!
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:30 PM
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28. Keith Olbermann
But I'd really rather get him under the mistletoe. :loveya:

You can't invite Wolf Blitzer over for Thanksgiving unless he was on the menu, he's the biggest damn turkey there is.
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Basileus Basileon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:46 PM
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29. Noam Chomsky. I have a few bones to pick with his Minimalist Program.
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 06:48 PM by Basileus Basileon
As elegant as it is (and as happy as anything that might kill X-bar syntax makes me), it still does not correspond to actual language development in humans nearly as well as connectionist theories do, nor do Chomsky's theories predict many actual grammatical mistakes made by adults.

Also, I would so get his autograph and photograph myself with him and get him to say the entire IPA alphabet and make it my ringtone.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:07 PM
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33. None of the above
I view Thanksgiving as a day to spend quality time with my family that I don't get to see but a few times a year.

This is a day to enjoy each other, catch up, watch all the little kiddos play around. It's a day to relax with each other and let the other problems drift by for the day. I'd rather have a Thanksgiving like that, than a political one. I already do the political thing almost every other day.
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ozone_man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 07:15 PM
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36. Helen Thomas.
Chomsky would be my second choice, but Thomas is wonderful. I saw her speak last year locally. She's been in the press covering so many presidents, I'm not sure which was the first one. Eisenhower would be my guess. She's ancient but as sharp as a tack.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 10:35 PM
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37. Craig Ferguson
he tucks me in every night ;)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:02 PM
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39. Helen's welcome at my table any time! n/t
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:12 PM
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40. Wolf Blitzer! lol
Actually Helen Thomas. I think she would be the most interesting by far.
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