I can’t believe you left out Abe Lincoln, you… modernist.
Anyway, from the choices you gave I went with Jimmy.
Carter is currently on a book tour, so he’s sufficiently robust to sit upright on a chair for long enough to down a lager.
I would assume they all have powerful personalities and would to some extent control the conversation. I can’t help but thinking Bush the Lesser would spend the whole time trying to justify his presidency and using very shallow logic and lots of inconsistencies.
I think any of the others would be interesting, but Clinton probably the most so.
I’ll be Clinton’s wingman - and he can teach me a thing or two.
The last I heard, Abe hadn’t recovered from his visit to the theatre. If anyone wants to start a poll with dead presidents, please go ahead: I’d probably vote for Tom Jefferson in that one.
Sorry, I missed the part about them being living, at first. To me, the very idea is fantasy. So if it’s fantasy, why not time travel as well? Anyway.
Jimmy is still up and kicking. He just went to North Korea and negotiated the release of an American who was held captive there. I wouldn’t count him out just yet.
I’m sure. I’ve never worked with him personality with Habitat for Humanity, but the rumor is when he’s on a job site, he gets straight to work, so the old guy isn’t in the grave just yet. Still, given the choices, my first would not be the one who’s 85 years old.
Well, I’d be willing to have a beer with any of them, so I didn’t vote in the poll. I guess for the purposes of the poll, I’d choose Barry because he’s the current president, but I suspect I’d have a lot more fun with either Bill or W.
Clinton might be more fun, but I liked the idea of Obama hosting a “Beer Summit” in the garden of the White House. So I chose Obama–a couple of cold ones in the White House garden, and what would be certain to be an interesting conversation about current affairs, sounds good to me.
Teddy Roosevelt.
I hate everything his administration stood for and did, but I voted for W in this poll. Come on, you know he was a fun guy to party with before his life got serious. I blame Cheney and Rumsfeld for all the shit that went on anyway.
- You’re talking about before his life got serious, and 2) more fun than Clinton? If we were talking about how you’d drink with in their party dies, I think I’d say W, but if you ask me about who I would like to, right now, in 2010, have a martini with, Billy C all the way.
Then Bush I, Carter, Obama, W. In that order.
Everybody talked about how they’re rather have a beer with W than Kerry. Nobody seemed to remember it would have to be a non-alcoholic beer though.
Not beer but some more cultured drink with George HW Bush a classic Boston Brahmin-a type of person I always wanted to talk to.
This was a little tough for me between Clinton and Obama,but from everything I’ve read, Obama has a rather reticent personality. Not a jerk, by any means. Very cordial and respectful, but also very guarded. From what I’ve read, he doesn’t really open up to anyone but his wife and kids.
Clinton, on the other hand, is reportedly very warm and amiable, very open, the kind of guy who’ll tell great stories about being President – not political stories, necessarily, but just little anecdotes and details about what it’s like to be the President.
I voted for four of them, and against four of them.
But I’d have a beer with any of them.
I would pick Bill if I could only choose one. However, except for W, I think they are all pretty interesting, and it would be pretty cool to have a beer with any one of them.
I think Carter is a Baptist, and Bush the Younger is a recovering alcoholic, so they aren’t really eligible.
Bush the Elder doesn’t strike me as being much fun.
That leaves Clinton or Obama. Hmmmm. Clinton’s more of a party guy, but he might have to bring his wife, so I’ll go with Obama.
If we open it up to historical figures, I think I’d like to do bong hits with Jefferson.
Hmmm…the next time I visit a presidential grave site, I’ll have to have a beer at the dead president’s grave. Is it proper to pour a little on the grave stone or marker itself? People like Kennedy get millions of visitors, but I’ve had some “alone time” with many of them already, from Teddy Roosevelt to James Madison.
He’s not at all like he is on TV - extremely personable, very approachable, VERY tall.
ETA - I’m not kidding, the man is a giant. Huge!
ETAA - And I was expecting to hate him, came away his biggest fan. Any man who makes it to the Oval Office, I suspect, must be possessed of a certain magnetism. With some of them it’s completely absent on TV.