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CaliforniaPeggy

(156,630 posts) Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:51 AM Jun 2012

If you got to have dinner with Obama... [View all]

I know we all have questions we'd love to ask...

I keep getting these emails urging me to apply so I could eat dinner or lunch with him. So far, I've resisted.

Of course, my chances are infinitesimally small.

But what if I were able to go?

I'd love to ask the hard questions: the ones about marijuana, about opening the North Sea for oil drilling, about the Keystone Pipeline, and so on.

Would you ask them?

I'd sure be tempted...

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If you got to have dinner with Obama... [View all] CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 OP

I get tongue tied. hrmjustin Jun 2012 #1

That would be an awful time to be tongue tied... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #2

I'd talk to him about health care and what a normal day is like for him. n/t cynatnite Jun 2012 #3

So many HarveyDarkey Jun 2012 #4

So, you'd ask the hard questions... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #5

I thought I'd start with an easy one HarveyDarkey Jun 2012 #11

The answer to that question can be found below Tx4obama Jun 2012 #18

In my head rightwinger77 Jun 2012 #6

Welcome to DU! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #9

I'd like to tell him what I think of his education secretary but I wouldn't; elleng Jun 2012 #7

That's what I'm afraid of: being rude. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #10

Peggy, we won't find out what he's really thinking about the controversial topics until he goes RFKHumphreyObama Jun 2012 #23

*sigh* I expect you're right about that. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #24

What about Sidwell rightwinger77 Jun 2012 #13

We have friends who attended Sidwell. elleng Jun 2012 #19

I would be telling him how much I appreciate goclark Jun 2012 #37

Yes indeed! elleng Jun 2012 #40

I would give him ONe night off. No political questions. WingDinger Jun 2012 #8

That would be very kind of you. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #12

Nice of you! elleng Jun 2012 #20

The important questions... Wait Wut Jun 2012 #14

Actually . . . madamesilverspurs Jun 2012 #15

You mean my accusatory style might not work??? CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #16

I would ask him some of the things that probably no one would Tx4obama Jun 2012 #17

OP stole my idea Jamaal510 Jun 2012 #21

He is without question a very strong man, a strong personality. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #22

I think I would talk to him about BO Raine Jun 2012 #25

Those are good thoughts, my dear Raine! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #26

I would ask him to hire some regular people who are living with the consequences of WCGreen Jun 2012 #27

He would probably ask a lot about me lovemydog Jun 2012 #28

I would not ask him a damn thing--I'd tell him what I thought... MADem Jun 2012 #29

agreed. any questions we either already know the answers to, or will get stock answers magical thyme Jun 2012 #31

I would - and I'd TELL him a few things too. ;) polichick Jun 2012 #30

I'd ask... greytdemocrat Jun 2012 #32

actually we are paying lame54 Jun 2012 #34

pot poker and drones lame54 Jun 2012 #33

I wouldn't ask them anything. I'd TELL them to make sure everything is vegetarian. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #35

No questions. I'd tell him I'm disgusted with the use of drones LiberalEsto Jun 2012 #36

I just spoke today with a friend who met the President and First Lady at the WH recently pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #38

That's a great story, and thank you for sharing it, my dear pinboy3niner! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #39

I would ask him for advice on how to pay back... a la izquierda Jun 2012 #41

Ask him to stop the outsourcing!! Ask him where the hell does he think the jobs are going?? Ghost of Huey Long Jun 2012 #42

Ask him why he doesn't shut the Republicans down on the debt Ghost of Huey Long Jun 2012 #43

I don't enter those contests. Comrade_McKenzie Jun 2012 #44

I wouldn't ask him anything political lunatica Jun 2012 #45