<p>who would you pick? they don’t have to be people you know</p>
<p>1) one has to be from the past (as in not living)</p>
<p>2) one from the present</p>
<p>3) one from the future</p>
<p>I would have
Leonardo da Vinci
Bill Cosby
my future grand-daughter</p>
<ol>
<li><p>AJ (my daughter’s boyfriend, would love to see that sunny smile one last time, give him a big hug, and get to say goodbye)</p></li>
<li><p>My daughter (so she could do the same - and I could get to see that sparkle in her eyes again).</p></li>
<li><p>Someone from @ 300 years in the future to see what it is like.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>wow…nice question…and a hard one as well.</p>
<p>1) Mussolini, Hitler…Michelangelo…Leopardi…so many options…</p>
<p>2) Obama</p>
<p>3) My great-grandson</p>
<p>Swimscatmom, that choked me up. </p>
<p>I’ll have to think on this one.</p>
<p>Hmmmm… I think I’d go with my grandmother (taken away too soon when I was a child), my son (who never met her but they would have gotten along very, very well), and my son’s future wife. I’d rather expand the group, though, to include our minister (who’s gone and dearly missed) and my mom.</p>
<p>The President would be fascinating to dine and talk with, but I don’t know whom I’d include in that conversation from the past and future… and I don’t know how much he’d be able to share so soon after his terms.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>My mystery uncle (my mother’s half-brother, whom my mom only met once and I never met – I assume he must be dead now because he would be more than 100 years old if he was living)</p></li>
<li><p>President-elect Obama’s mother-in-law (a really cool lady of 71 who retired from her job – yes, she was still working – to look after her grandchildren while their parents were traveling during the campaign and will probably move in to the White House to do the same)</p></li>
<li><p>My first grandchild</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I like people who really shake things up:</p>
<p>-MLK jr.
-George Soros
-the person who finally negotiates peace in the Middle East</p>
<p>James McNeil Whistler (great conversationalist!)
Barack Obama (sexy, powerful and interesting)
Bon Apetites “Best Chef of 2025” (hey someones gotta cook!)</p>
<p>MLK
Obama
One of my sons at 30</p>
<p>I would have to have two separate suppers, one for each S,</p>
<ol>
<li>S at age 9 (a great age for boys)</li>
<li>S now
3 S at 50 (my age now)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>My sister-in-law, Mary Beth, the finest person I will ever have the privilege to have known.</p></li>
<li><p>Obama (second choice, Bono)</p></li>
<li><p>The editor who buys my novel.</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Eleanor of Aquitaine</li>
<li>Obama</li>
<li>the person who makes long-term space travel possible</li>
</ol>
<p>Wow, what an incredibly intriguing question…I think the answer could change for each time I’m asked the question. But today, I think I would want three Presidents seated together at my table: Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, and whoever assumes the job a quarter of a century from now.</p>
<ol>
<li>Benjamin Franklin</li>
<li>Obama</li>
<li>my future grand daughter</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Lincoln</li>
<li>Obama</li>
<li>Whoever is President in 100 years.</li>
</ol>
<p>(Poor Lincoln’s head would be spinning as he tried to absorb all the changes, so it would have to be a multi-course very leisurely dinner… hours and hours long… maybe 24 hours).</p>
<ol>
<li> Samuel Clemens</li>
<li> The Dalai Lama</li>
<li> Any sports fanatic (with a photographic memory) from 2011</li>
</ol>
<p>Momof2, I thought about listing the President 100 years from now, but I thought it was being optimistic to assume that America would be a solvent and sovereign nation in another quarter century. Somehow, I doubt we’ll be “America” in virtually any of it’s current manifestations 100 years from now.:(</p>
<ol>
<li>My father</li>
<li>My son</li>
<li>My “who knows” future grandson</li>
</ol>
<p>My father was very musical and a musician and he seemed to connect w/ my son–even though my son was only 4 when my father died. My father was talking about my son (not his only grandchild or grandson) as he was wheeled in to the operating room where he died. My son (aged 22) turned out to be very talented musically. I would love for them to meet and to meet my son’s child (assuming there may be one some day!)</p>
<p>I was asked this question at a grad school interview 30 years ago. All I remember is that I said I’d want my Dad to be there. He died when I was 21.</p>
<p>Churchill</p>
<p>Stavridis</p>
<p>Obama’s grandkids</p>