Sat 8 Nov 2008
For some unknown, magical reason, you will be able to have one hour of alone time with President Elect Obama.
What conversation would you have with him? What would you ask for? What would be the most important thing that you’d want to convey to him?
Posted by BrandB8 answers so far!
I would convince him that the War on Drugs is destroying America, and talk him into winding it down.
Agreed about the war on drugs, but I’d focus on trying to get him to renounce war in general. War: what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Leave the second amendment alone and fund stem cell research.
I would bring my sick pet swan with me, and ask him to heal it.
No! Only kidding!
Supposing he was inclined to be honest and candid, I would ask him to stop all the covert crap we do around the world – nation-building and rigging elections and destablizing regions purely on ideological grounds, or relics from the old cold-war days. I, too, would ask him to stop the W.O.D. stuff, which kind of goes hand-in-hand with my previous statement. I’d ask him to stop embargoing Cuba and close Guantanamo. I would also ask him to ban HFCS just on general principle.
After I was done complaining, I would ask if he really liked the Buzzcocks, and if I could look at his iPod, and what’s the first movie he wants to watch in the White House movie theater?
Oh — one more thing: I would tell President Obama, “Look, if there’s any truth to this alien stuff – any at all – just say so!” Because then he’d be doubly historical – first black president and first president to tell us about the aliens. You just know that’s what he and Bush were talking about for 2 hours today.
I’ve thought about it a bit, since asking the question and cycled through any number of answers in my head. I’d just want to sit down face to face and say “Don’t mess this up. No one is really expecting you to be perfect, but don’t mess this up. Don’t be diddle the intern or anyone else. Don’t sell out core values of our country for cheap feelings of vengeance. Don’t pick fights that you can avoid. Don’t mess this up”
What would you ask for?
Two eggs, over easy. And a side of bacon. Or sausage, but only if it’s links, not patties.
“If you’re not going to be diddling these interns…do you mind? No? Thanks!”