You're having a dinner party.Only 7 people can be invited..

[SummerSnow]

who would you invite.? You cannot invite the President or any family or friends.No dead people.


1. Bernie Sanders
2. Elizabeth Warren
3.Rachel Maddow
4. Ronan Farrow
5.John Fugelsang
6. Bill Maher
7. Lily Leadbetter

My dinner guest

[TlalocW]

1. Can it be living or dead people?

Just wondering.

TlalocW

[SummerSnow]

2. No dead people.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Dead people aren't any fun at a dinner party

even though they don't eat or drink much.

[TlalocW]

22. That was actually my point

It would have been less work for me, and I would have gotten more food.

TlalocW

[dixiegrrrrl]

39. Great minds....we can achieve the same result by inviting

7 speciality cooks.

Think Anthony Bourdain and his phone list.

[A HERETIC I AM]

43. Give a dead guy one single cocktail....

and he falls right off the chair.

[tridim]

4. Do we have to talk politics?

Ugh.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My list:

1. Bernie Sanders

2. Sherrod Brown

3. Jerry Brown

4 and 5. The Koch Brothers


These are all the ones I can think of off-hand. It would be interesting!

[bunnies]

77. I'll take Kissinger for $500, Alex.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Mine

just a quick list. I have not thought about this, so may not be 100% correct.

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Cindy Sheehan
4. Chelsea Manning
5. Joseph Wilson
6. Mike Malloy
7. Amy Goodman

(There are too many, I tossed in a couple media and air america too)

[Skidmore]

8. ok

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Joy Reid
George Takei
Jimmy Carter
Malala Yousefzai
John Lewis
Amy Goodman
Sarah Silverstone

[SomethingFishy]

12. George Takei... Good one... He's on Bill Maher this Friday!

Looking forward to that one, I hope he's on the panel...

[OKNancy]

9. my guests

Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Rob Reiner
Ben Affleck
Michael Beschloss
Rachel Maddow
Thomas Ravenel - for shits and giggles

----------

my party would be fun - lol

[SomethingFishy]

10. I'll play...

1. Roger Waters
2. Paul McCartney
3. Jon Stewart
4. John Lassiter
5. Bernie Sanders
6. Tom Hartman
7. Cornell West

[cloudbase]

69. If you have Cornel West at your table,

nobody else would be able to speak.

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. No family or friends? Do *I* have to attend? n/t

[SummerSnow]

14. Yes you must attend

[closeupready]

13. 1. Anderson Cooper; 2. HRH The Queen; 3. Gloria Steinem;

4. Dubai's crown prince Faisal; 5. Warren Buffett; 6. Annie Lennox; and 7. Bill O'Reilly.

[riderinthestorm]

15. Oh this is fun!

Michelle Obama
Elizabeth Warren
John Stewart
Bill Maher
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Edward Snowden
Betty White (I bet she has some great stories!)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. My dinner party would probably lead to a food fight,

or maybe WWIII, but it would be interesting:

1. Edward Snowden
2. Benjamin Netanyahu
3. Vladimir Putin
4. Pope Francis
5. RuPaul
6. Desmond Tutu
7. Dick Cheney

[woodsprite]

32. Or maybe a heart attack for one of your guests ;) -- Let's hear it for #7 n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

47. Just seat RuPaul on one side of him.....

and Putin on the other.

Put The Bishop at the end of the table facing Cheney.

That should do it.

[CherokeeDem]

51. Cool list....

Please sit RuPaul between Pope Francis and Putin.... I would pay to watch them!

And Tutu between Cheney and Netanyahu.... maybe he can talk some sense into them..

Mean while.... Edward Snowden would be recording it all!

Great list!!

[JHB]

103. I thought there was a "no dead people" rule here...

What's Cheney doing on the list?

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. 1. Stephen Colbert, 2. Jon Stewart, 3, Rachel Maddow, 4. Keith Olbermann,

5. Elizabeth Warren, 6. Bernie Sanders, 7. ......

Can't decide if I want to invite a single token RWer to cope with all the thinkers, or if I want one more progressive. Will have to give it some more thought.

(I wish this was a larger party! Too many options! I think I will make Neil DeGrasse Tyson seat 7.)

[alsame]

18. No politics for me, I'd go

with creative types. In no particular order:

1) Jon Stewart
2) Chris Rock
3) Bob Dylan
4) Jane Fonda
5) Gabriel Byrne
6) Ellen DeGeneres
7) Cher

[JustAnotherGen]

30. I like your list a lot!

[alsame]

48. You can

come too!

[gratuitous]

19. Two questions: Do I have to be there?

And do I have access to a nuclear weapon?

It will definitely affect my answer.

[SummerSnow]

24. No wmd's at the party

[unionthug777]

20. hmmmmmm...?

1 David Gilmour
2 Michelle Obama
3 Dustin Hoffman
4 lech Walesa
5 Aaron Rodgers
6 steve Buscemi
7 Zooey deschanel

[a kennedy]

99. D*mn right Aaron Rodgers......

[TBF]

107. Crap, I need to add Clay Matthews

to the list. I'll take off Adele.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. My list:

1) Elizabeth Warren
2) Jon Stewart
3) Stephen Colbert
4) Sandra Bullock
5) Annie Leibovitz
6) George Martin
7) Sonia Sotomayor

[conservaphobe]

23. Hmm...

1. Seth Rogen
2. Emma Stone
3. Jonah Hill
4. Vince Gilligan
5. Stephen King
6. Bryan Cranston
7. Kesha

[CTyankee]

25. I think I'd have Paul Krugman. Just Paul Krugman (and his wife, of course).

His wife has co-authored one of his books and I would love to talk to her, too!

I read somewhere that they like to travel in France. Perhaps we could meet up in Provence and have a delightful meal with great wine and have a lot of laughs as well as serious talk about the economy, politics and his days as an undergrad at Yale.

Now that's a great little fantasy...

[amandabeech]

94. And William Black, Stiglitz and Paul Vocker. n/t

[applegrove]

26. What a great list.

[MattBaggins]

27. No dead people? Can I invite Catelyn Stark under that rule?

[mainstreetonce]

44. LOL

Hodor

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Mine is NOT political

Dave Chappelle
Robert Redford
Willie Nelson
Thandie Newton (that's for my husband - he has a thing for her)
Sidney Poitier
The "Old Man" from American Pawn Stars
Melissa Harris Perry

And Leonardo Dicaprio - because then we can shut the pocket doors, go into the livingroom - and he can do impressions for me of everyone else!

That would be a cool crew.

And my husband would have to be there because
1. It's his house too

And

2. This entire site has a better chance of meeting god in the next five minutes than my husband leaving me alone with Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier! I don't care if they are both elderly - hips will be broken!

[TexasProgresive]

46. I would be concerned leaving my wife alone with either of these 2 old men

Omar Sharif and Sean Connery.

[JustAnotherGen]

53. Hell yeah!

You are a smart cookie! And that's true love right there - when you know who in the 75 and older crowd not to leave your spouse alone with.

Like I would never leave my husband alone with Sophia Loren or Tina Turner. They would steal him from me.

[TexasProgresive]

60. Those two are in my top list along with

Susan Sarandon, Shirley MacLaine, Dame Diana Rigg, and Joan Baez; oh, and Jane Fonda.

[JustAnotherGen]

64. My husband

Says throw Jessica Lange on the pile even though she's under age.

[bunnies]

79. "old man" from pawn stars....

I love you. Gotta feel a bit sad for Chum though.

[JustAnotherGen]

97. When I miss my dad

I watch that show.

[a kennedy]

100. Sorry, I don't like that shaw at all...

I guess when they low ball their patrons, I just feel sorry for most of the people trying to get some money. Don't watch it so may-be I'm way off base, but it just makes me sad.

[Tikki]

29. Just from everywhere...

Cyril Rioli
Jerry Brown
David Hildago
Julia Brownley
Ellen Stofan
Banksy
Craig Jelinek

Tikki

[brooklynite]

31. Well, I already HAD dinner with Bernie Sanders...

...and Elizabeth Warren cancelled on me.

[SummerSnow]

34. Im jealous

[lovemydog]

33. St. Vincent

Kim Gordon
Lorde
Beyonce
Angela Davis
Elizabeth Warren
Michele Obama

I'd be the only guy!

[KamaAina]

54. In a similar vein

Susan Sarandon
Sonia Sotomayor
Rachel Maddow
Beyonce
Elizabeth Warren
Sara Bareilles
Sara Gilbert

[PumpkinAle]

35. Bohner, Cheney and Liz, Ailes, Koch Bros & McConnell

the menu would be - double deathcap mushroom soup, followed by deathcap mushroom risotto!

As for me, oopsie called away at the last minute - please guests carry on I would hate for this food to be wasted.

[Hugabear]

38. Darn you beat me by 1 minute!

Great minds think alike

[PumpkinAle]

45. Or "evil" minds :)

[malaise]

101. Perfect

[Rowdyboy]

36. I love these questions.....

1. Bill Clinton
2.Melissa Harris Perry
3. George Clooney
4. Rachel Maddow
5. George Takei
6. Whoopi Goldberg
7. Prince Harry (just to get him loaded and see what happens. I have a cell phone with a camera now!)

[Hugabear]

37. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Coulter

Main course is poison.

[JHB]

104. No need for poison, just salmon mousse

[Hugabear]

111. Or fugu, prepared by an aspiring but not fully trained chef

The chef might be able to prepare it properly, in which case they would be enjoying a nice meal.

[tiredtoo]

40. So many to choose from

1. Jon Stewart
2. Stephen Colbert
3. Elizabeth Warren
4. Sherrod Brown
5. Bill Maher
6. Michael Moore
7. Bernie Sanders

[ieoeja]

41. Ted Nugent, Michael Moore, Charlie Daniels, Jane Fonda, Don Sterling, Charles Barkely,Clint Eastwood

My house needs remodeling anyway.

[wyldwolf]

65. FOOD FIGHT!!!

[amandabeech]

95. Too bad John Belushi is no longer with us. n/t

[Skittles]

42. OK

Lewis Black, Michelle Obama, Wendy Davis, George Clooney, Neil Young, Dr. Tyson, Eugene Robinson

[mainstreetonce]

50. Joe Biden,

Whoopi Goldberg
Justice Ginsberg
Brad Paisley
Jon Bonjovi
Michelle Obama
One Newtown Parent

[democrank]

49. Let me think....

John Lewis
Jimmy Carter
Julian Bond
Arundhati Roy
Bill Moyers
Anyone from The Innocence Project
Amy Goodman

[Savannahmann]

52. A dinner party?

Anthony Keidis
Flea
Ellen MacArthur
Rubens Barrichello
Michio Kaku
Leena Gade No wikipedia page for her, sorry.
Finally. Alan Bean

I can talk politics with anyone, that's no fun. If we are talking about a dream dinner party with people I'd really like to meet, people who have done things I can't imagine, then these are the people I'd most want to meet. Granted, the two long time members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is kind of a sop to one of my favorite musical groups. But the rest.

Dame Ellen MacArthur has sailed around the world solo. She was and may still be the world record holder of the fastest solo circumnavigation. WOW, that's impressive for anyone!

Reubens Barrichello is a Formula 1 Race Car driver who was a friend and crashed on the same track the day before Aryton Senna died. He was very successful, and seems like a good companion to have at the table. Also from racing is Leena Gade, the Team Audi engineer who runs one of the cars that compete at Le Mans. According to interviews she fell in love with racing as a teenager, and never looked back, and never forgot her dream to engineer a racing team.

Michio Kaku, enough said. World famous physics guy. Brilliant fellow, and seems able to discuss things at a level we mere mortals can understand. Finally. Alan Bean. Apollo 12 with Pete Conrad, was the commander of the second group to Skylab. A brilliant guy who would keep everyone at the table enthralled with stories of apollo and skylab.

Meeting politicians is doable without giving up my one dream dinner with any companions I wanted. I could give you other names, but these are the ones at the front of my mind now. It could change anytime. But for a dream dinner, politics is the one thing I don't want at the table. I want science, art, the pinnacle of human achievement. People who push themselves to the limit of human ability. People who have climbed Everest. People who have been down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. People who have wintered over in Antarctica. People who have stood on the top of Kilimanjaro.

I can talk politics with my neighbor, or with you all. I wouldn't want to waste the chance to talk to someone who's ridden the Shuttle, or stood on the surface of the moon, or played music that has been with me through most of my life.

[Katashi_itto]

55. The perfect list.

1. Koch Brothers
2. Rupert Murdoch
3. Sean Hannity
4. Rush Limbaugh
5. Karl Rove
6. Dick Cheny


The Chef:

7: Dr. Hannibal Lector

[Boom Sound 416]

56. 3 progressives, 3 tea party-ers

And the "let's get ready to ruuummmmbleee!!!" guy

That should be interesting.

On the menu would be crab. For dessert would be some sort of a humble pie.

[DrDan]

57. ok - sounds like a good exercise

1. Bill Clinton
2. George W. Bush
3. Stephen Hawking
4. Richard Branson
5. Stevie Wonder
6. Rachel Maddow
7. Betty White

[DrDan]

98. wouldn't you love to see

Hawking, Newton and Einstein together - with those great minds "catching up"

[OilemFirchen]

58. You did say PARTY, yes?

Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Gretchen Mol

[CanonRay]

59. Alan Grayson has got to be there.

[betsuni]

61. Difficult!

Garrison Keillor
David Sedaris
Jane Goodall
Lewis Black
Geoffrey Holder
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Martha Stewart

[KittyWampus]

62. Nathan Lane, Cindy Sherman, Gloria Steinem, Ira Glass, Rob Reiner, Elizabeth Chadwick

Misty Copeland.

Mix of performance art, writing and comedy.

[grasswire]

68. oh Nathan Lane!!

whee!

[TBF]

63. Well it's no fun without the dead folks -

OK here are my 7 -

Neil Gaiman
John Stewart
Roger Federer
Margaret Atwood
Gwen Stefani
JK Rowling
Adele

[joshcryer]

112. I like that list.

Not too political at all, just some good people in our cultural history.

[TBF]

114. Dead people would have been more interesting -

with Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, Edith Wharton, Maria Montessori and others.

This was the best I could do with modern folks. I love sports, music and writing. John Stewart would be there to keep the conversation going because I'm quieter in "real" life and I bet some of the authors are as well.

[joshcryer]

115. Oh yes!

I would have participated if I could include dead people. Marx and Proudhon across the table from one another. That would've been glorious. Throw Tycho Brahe and Franklin in there... man... then Iain M. Banks and Author C. Clarke. And for good measure, Michael Bey.

We're talking a fun dinner party, not necessarily one where everyone tips their glasses in agreement about every issue!

[cloudbase]

66. Here goes. . .

Bill Moyers
Nina Ananiashvili
John Pual Stevens
Dolores Huerta
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bowen Loftin
Lily Tomlin

Mix with a few snorts of good whiskey and we'd have an interesting evening.

[grasswire]

67. Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers
Brian Schweitzer
President Bartlett
Katrina van den Heuvel
Ari Berman
Glenn Greenwald
Dan Rather


off the top of my head

[malaise]

71. Not one politician

and not one celebrity.
We usually have the same ten friends over for Christmas dinner every year for well over ten years. One died - we'll never cut the list - we'll keep it at nine. They literally demand the same menu or tell us we can add but not subtract from the menu. They love our cooking, share delightful tales and jokes and always bring an amazing array of wines. We stopped telling them that there is no need to bring wine. They insist.

Our dinner parties are only family and friends.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

72. This would be my list.

1. Fidel Castro
2. Noam Chomsky
3. David Graeber
4. Bernie Sanders
5. Matt Taibbi
6. Jacque Fresco (Venus Project)
7. Russel Brand

[Nye Bevan]

73. Joe Biden, Queen Elizabeth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Steven Moffat, David Tennant,

Mark Knopfler, and Bill Clinton.

[libnnc]

74. Well, I like a good laugh as well as good conversation...

1. Bill Moyers
2. Carol Burnett
3. Stephanie Miller
4. Elizabeth Warren
5. Dolly Parton
6. Barbara Boxer
7. Rachel Maddow

Heavy on the lady people, so toughies.

[me b zola]

75. I have two lists, this is the one that you all will know the names of

Roseanne
Ann Burrell
Tony Bourdain
Bill Maher
Pope Francis
Bill Moyer
Lena Headey

[shanti]

76. My choices

Elizabeth warren, whoopie Goldberg, Anthony bourdain, Barack Obama, George clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

[sheshe2]

78. Hmmmm

1. Malala
2. Michelle Obama
3. George Clooney
4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
5. Rachel Maddow
6. Sonia Sotomayor
7. Antonio Banderas (Because I have a crush on him)

[Nedsdag]

80. Here are my seven and here are my reasons:

1. Melody Hobson Lucas - Very successful businesswoman on her own. Married George Lucas.
2. Stephen Hawking - 'Nuff said.
3. Harper Lee - To talk about her "child" she created 53 years ago "To Kill a Mockingbird."
4. & 5. Jack and Meg White - I want The White Stripes to reunite. Also, I want to ask him why he walked out of a concert I attended.
6. Jeff Bezos - The man who created Amazon.com and changed the way the world shops.
7. Jürgen Klinsmann - USMNT (soccer) coach and technical director. I want to talk about building the U.S. men's team and American soccer in general.

[onecaliberal]

81. Here goes

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Thom Hartman
3. John Fugelsang
4. Liz Warren
5. Roseann Barr
6. Jerry brown
7. John Stewart

[Jenoch]

82. I have decided that while I am hosting,

I am not cooking.

1. Jacques Pepin
2. Anthony Bourdain
3. Tom Colicchio
4. Bobby Flay
5. Michael Symon
6. Gordon Ramsay
7. Andrew Zimmern

[Hekate]

83. Barack & Michelle, Joe & Jill, Bill & Hillary, Jon Stewart

That's seven. My hubby and I don't count for the total.

That should be one lively dinner discussion.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

84. 7. Aung San Suu Kyi - My daughter is a big fan

6. Jimmy Buffett - My wife is a big fan
5. Warren Buffett - I need better financial advice than I'm getting now.
4 & 3. Bill & Hillary Clinton
2. Robert Irvine: What - you thought I was cooking for these people?
1. Jon Stewart

[jmowreader]

85. My seven

George Takei, the happiest man in America
Kyle White, who earned the Medal of Honor in one of Shrub's illegal wars
Ana Kasparian, Cenk's partner on The Young Turks
Rachel Maddow, who needs no introduction
Likewise, Paul Krugman
Nicko McBrain, drummer for Iron Maiden
and...George W. Bush

I figure we put about two fifths of Old Grand-Dad into Shrub then stand back and watch the fun.

[LibDemAlways]

86. My guests would include

Paul McCartney
Elton John
Harper Lee
Caroline Kennedy
Queen Elizabeth
Jimmy Carter
Michael Moore


I would kick back and enjoy the hell out of the conversation.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

87. Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rohintan Mistry, Dalai Lama,

Kshama Sawant, Joan Baez.

[Uncle Joe]

88. 1. Al Gore

2. Bill Moyers
3. Alan Grayson
4. Elizabeth Warren
5. Al Franken
6. Stephen Colbert
7. Alicia Keys

Thanks for the thread, SummerSnow.

[MohRokTah]

89. Easy

1. Stephen King
2. George R. R. Martin
3. Melinda Snodgrass
4. Brian Lumley
5. Harry Turtledove
6. Jim Butcher
7. J.K. Rowling

Politics is most definitely NOT on the menu.

[Beausoir]

90. My family.

They are the best people I know.

[Zorra]

91. Huh. That's a difficult decision.

Barbara Kingsolver
John Trudell
Rachel Maddow
Arundahti Roy
Subcomandante Marcos
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Greg Palast

[minivan2]

92. My 7 are.

1. Elizabeth Warren
2. Bernie Sanders
3. Bill Maher
4. Tom Baker
5. David Tenant
6. Matt Smith
7. Neil Degrasse Tysone

If you know who 4-6 are, you're awesome.

[Nedsdag]

93. Dr. Who?

n/t

[minivan2]

117. Yep.

[Contrary1]

96. I'm gonna dine with:

Jimmy Carter
The Dalai Lama
Ellen DeGeneres
Bette Midler
Morgan Freeman
Pope Francis
Cher

I am a killer cook. We will be eating Italian.

PS. I love reading about who others would invite and why. Thanks for a great topic!

[Renew Deal]

102. 1. John Prentice

[AngryAmish]

105. Lemmy and whatever women he wants to bring

And by dinner I assume you mean Jack Daniels.

[GeorgeGist]

106. My list

Steven Colbert
Richard Dawkins
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Elizabeth Warren
Rachel Maddow
Susan Sarandon
Bill Moyers

[charlie and algernon]

108. Here goes

1. Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. Jon Stewart
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Jennifer Lawrence
5. Ken Burns
6. Martin Sheen
7. Allen Guelzo


We sit around and talk about history all night and come up with the next great Civil War movie.

[Phentex]

109. Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Ellen Degeneres, Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, Whoopi

and Andy Cohen.

[Walk away]

110. I know he isn't political but I'd like to include Robert Osborne...

I just would like to have him over for dinner.

[Joel thakkar]

113. My 7 would be

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Elizabeth Warren
3. Rachel Maddow
4. Bill Maher
5. Jon Steward
6. Stephen Colbert
7. Bill Nelson

[Whisp]

116. Margaret Atwood, Justice Scalia, David Suzuki

Lou Dobbs
Arundhati Roy
Paul Wolfowitz
and Margaret MacMillan the historian

No sharp utensils allowed.

[jtuck004]

118. I know this is old, but so am I. Can I have #1 7 times? We will just eat cheeseburgers on Fridays.

'Cause it's gonna take more than one meeting with him.