If you could bring back up to 5 historical figures...

[fortyfeetunder]

to fix this mess in the Gulf and the politicians associated with it, who would it be? And what would these people do?

I upped it to 5 because I don't know any one miracle person...and wanted to give you that option.

My five:
MLK Jr --mobilize, stabilize, the consummate roll up the hands and help people type
Robert Kennedy - leading the government
Joan of Arc - provide vision
Marie Antoinette - to give the Bushes a clue about the French Revolution
Shirley Chisholm - to be the next President.

[RagingInMiami]

1. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald

Oh wait, wrong thread. I thought you were asking me a trivia question.

[u4ic]

3. LOL

:rofl:

[Mojambo]

4. LOL. You rule. n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

5. Leaves nothing to the imagination!!!

I get your drift. Then after the mess is created, who else would you bring back?

[rockymountaindem]

2. Lessee...

1) Benjamin P. Judah, who envisioned the transcontinental railway, could handle the engineering.

2) Dwight D. Eisenhower, to organize the effort.

3) Ghandi, to be a voice for the poor.

4) Teddy Roosevelt, to say what needs to be said re: Bushco and their bungaling of just about everything.

5) FDR, who could stick around and clean up the rest of the mess we've been living in for the past 5 years.

[fortyfeetunder]

6. Hey, those are interesting picks.

and well thought out!

[rockymountaindem]

8. Thanks!

[enigmatic]

7. 5

Bill Hicks http://www.billhicks.com/
Henry Wallace http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARwallace.htm
Tommy Douglas http://www.weyburnreview.com/tommydouglas/welcome.html
Gandhi http://www.mkgandhi.org/
Bukowski http://www.levee67.com/bukowski/

[fortyfeetunder]

10. Now which one of these would you assign

to deal with Bush?

[enigmatic]

12. Hicks

For starters, then Gandhi and Tommy Douglas to finish up.

[Robeson]

9. My High Five.....

...

1) Hadrian - he understood the limits of power.

2) Heraclius - he knew how to make chicken salad out of chicken-shit.

3) Machiavelli - with this crew we're dealing with, we need someone on top of their shit.

4) William III, i.e. House of Orange - decisive and understood geopolitics.

5) Confucius - we desperately need some type of code of ethics.

[fortyfeetunder]

11. Interesting picks

I was thinking about Machiavelli as a pick also. He would be in the West Wing...Would he be the one to deal with Bush?

[Robeson]

13. I think my choices 1, 2, and 4 would deal with Bush very quickly...

...and with expediency....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Only need two...

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

[bliss_eternal]

15. My five...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcom X

Medgar Evers

The Black Panther party

Shirley Chisolm