I Wish I'd Been In the Room When....

[RazBerryBeret]

Next month the second volume of a remarkable historical parlor game will be published, an effort called "I Wish I'd Been There." The first volume asked 20 specialists in American history to choose the events they wish they had witnessed, and the selections include the Salem witch trials, the killing of Abraham Lincoln and the march on Selma. The successor volume asks the same question of specialists in European history, and among the choices are the Battle of the Nile, the surrender of the Germans in World War II, and the preparation of Manet's classic painting "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe."

I think this is interesting...
so I wanted to ask you all....If you could Pick a time and place to be the proverbial "fly on the wall" when would it be?
what would you want to hear or witness?

[Wiley50]

1. I think I'll wait for a future version

so I can be present when Smirk and Snarl are hung for treason

Hope you understand

[goclark]

2. I have a vision of being in the Netherlands

for Chip's trial too.

Even if I don't get in, I want to be there.

Can you be tried after leaving office?

And of course, we already have our rooms reserved for Washington DC next January.

I am serious.

:bounce: for OBAMA!

[orleans]

4. that's what i was thinking...bush & cheney's execution. matter of fact,

i was just saying that about five minutes ago--before i came online.

apparently it's a common dream/wish/desire so many of us share.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Oh please don't execute them

Let them rot and let me be there to watch. I picture vacations in The Netherlands for years to come.

[RazBerryBeret]

8. I was really hoping that once they are out of office...

we could send them over to help Maliki as sort of an American Envoy.
no body armor, just a couple weapons and air drop them somewhere near Baghdad...

[goclark]

9. Awesome and I'm not a violent person

but that would be an experience that would be well deserved.

[RazBerryBeret]

11. I'm not a violent person either--

usually, but these guys have driven me to this kind of thinking. hey if the surge is working put your money where your mouth is, since we want to give them Democracy and Cheney/Bush want to rule the world, I think that's the best thing for all concerned. They started it, they can bring it back to order or die trying.

[goclark]

14. How sweet it would be ~ I would also like to see Bush and Brownie

rescue some people that are lost at sea, in a violent storm.

I'm not violent but Katrina was a sin and a shame and all of them should pay dearly for it.

[RazBerryBeret]

15. yes! agreed....

somewhere there should be a rooftop surrounded by water with their names on it.... no food. no water. no rescue...

[Mojambo]

3. Dealy Plaza. n/t

[RazBerryBeret]

7. good one...

I think I would like to be both at the plaza and in the autopsy room afterwards--although I wouldn't want to SEE that, I would like to hear the voices--"how do we explain this?"

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. When Oswald shot Kennedy

On second thought, I wish I had been on the grassy knoll to see who really killed him. :)

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. When JFK and RFK got the news that Marilyn Monroe was dead.

OOOOH me so bad!

[RazBerryBeret]

12. Bad, but I'm sure

that would be very interesting!

[RazBerryBeret]

13. Here's one I've always wondered about...

I'd like to have been there when Jeff Gannon (fake reporter/gay prostitute) got his first day pass into the WH press briefings...how DID that happen?

[goclark]

16. Good one, was Jeff staying in the Lincoln Bedroom?

Isn't it amazing how so many things were never touched or discussed in Chimp's WH?

At least with JFK it was in the papers night and day and it didn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out.

[JDPriestly]

17. The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

That was easy.

[trusty elf]

18. I wish I'd been there when

Adam and Eve frollicked with the dinosaurs.

:evilgrin: