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... living or dead, real or fictional
edit:
(If the GOP could put up an empty chair and claim President Obama was sitting in it, we could put up a rack with an empty suit and claim it's Romney.)
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)in case he couldn't deliver. People need to hear the President rather than be distracted by a shiny object.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)I'm just trying to have a little fun with it.
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)Smacks of desperation.
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)Why have a 'mystery speaker'? Just list who will be there. By following the RNC's lead, and using a gimmick they pulled, it validates it, and makes us look weak and petty. (My mystery speaker is better than your mystery speaker) (I couldn't come up with a flashy idea on my own, so I took yours)
Keep your mystery speaker
Keep your chair talking
We're just gonna lay out the facts, and see you in November.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)The Republicans have gotten ridiculous.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I think you are right. That 'performance art' was helpful to the dems, no doubt about it.
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RagAss
(13,832 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)RagAss
(13,832 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 31, 2012, 09:10 AM - Edit history (1)
...letting him explain why he wanted to join the Communist Party (not the Democratic Party), and why they turned him down for being too flaky.
Now that would be a holographic Reagan worth seeing!
cloudbase
(5,526 posts)He could go on in some depth as to how the modern Republicans have moved from the ideals that made this country great.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)I was thinking Thomas Jefferson, but Ike might be able to sway some of the old folks back to our side.
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)just a thought. I'm sure there are better ideas out there.
C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)back for an encore. That was epic !
Iggo
(47,586 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)...for crapping on him about his "hear the roar of our engines" commercial during the Superbowl.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)We could have both Obamas. LOL. I bet we could talk Invisible Obama into coming.
TBF
(32,118 posts)Rectangle
(667 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946. Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House, said very solemnly, and I quote, We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions, unquote. Remember that promise: a real increase in income for everybody.
But what actually happened? The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers wages have increased by only one-quarter. In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages, and the small increase workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices, which have also bored into their savings. For example, here is an Associate Press Dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York. It seems that Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved up that he could live out his last years without having to worry. But he didnt figure on this Republican inflation, which ate up all of his savings, and so hes gone back to work. The reason this is news, is Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.
Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948; an increase of 70% in one year. In other words, high prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits
Tax-reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher-income brackets alone. The average The average worker saved only $1.73 a week. In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program. This was the payoff of the Republicans promises. And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States: Democratic faces.
I can hear the heads exploding now.
JHB
(37,163 posts)Amonester
(11,541 posts)Or even, make that the hologram of him giving that exact speech.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)But it might be too cruel to let him see what happened to his party.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)He'll lay the smack down on the repubes.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Barack Obama."
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)First name popped in my head.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)... talking to Invisible Jesus!
Yeahbuddy
SDjack
(1,448 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)With a special guest appearance by the chair...
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)He tweeted the following:
Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was to imaginary Obama in an empty chair. I'm drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory.
I say let him deliver that speech!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)George Takei rocks!
bwood
(2 posts)He had a lot of good high road sermons. I always felt he was the best orator of civil discourse.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)TBH with you guys..
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Don't go there.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Now there was a guy that didn't know the meaning of pulling punches
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)spanone
(135,919 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,412 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)We may have to get Lindsey Lohan...
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Teddy Kennedy.
I second the nominations of Betty White and Emma Goldman.
The REAL Susan B. Anthony.
Alice Paul.
Lucretia Mott.
Even James Garfield.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)the CNN camerawoman, insulted by racist RNC attendees. Her grace and dignity in handling the incident is remarkable. I would love to hear from her.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)He's an articulate spokesman for progressive positions, and would cause extreme, painful cognitive dissonance in the hard-core Republicans who worship his father.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Ron Reagan -- as he prefers to be called -- spoke at the 2008 convention.
It was a great moment. A Reagan at a Democratic convention!
(Ron and his sister are so unlike their father, and their brother Michael. It's so refreshing.)
donheld
(21,311 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)and we could all sit back and laugh and laugh and laugh and then start bringing up the bad times and reminding everyone of just how we got into this intractable mess.
Oh, and on top of that, who would have seen this one coming?
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)The greatest President in this nation's history would be a good mystery guest.
Horse with no Name
(33,958 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)message:
let's build great things and be wary of the mic.