If You Could Bring Back One Person from the Dead.,,

[Yavin4]

who would it be?

For me, it would be Martin Luther King. He was America's conciousness.

[liberalnurse]

1. My father.

[KansDem]

13. Me too!

My dad died when I was 22 months old; I never knew him.

I know he liked beer, so we could pop a couple of cold ones and talk about the present situation.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Make it 3.

Mine died when I was 13. I was a daddy's girl, and my life would have been 180 degrees different if he'd been here for it.

I think he'd be okay with most of the decisions I've made, but sometimes I still wonder what he's thinking up there.

[blondeatlast]

36. 4.

[Dees]

44. Me too

[Yavin4]

2. MODS PLEASE MOVE MY THREAD TO DU LOUNGE

I DIDN'T MEAN TO POST IT HERE.

[BR_Parkway]

3. Thomas Jefferson

to show these idiots what the Founding Father's really meant.

[tom_paine]

4. Tom Paine, of course.

Though Jefferson would be just as badly needed now, during the Age of Imperial Amerika.

Not to mention the Colonial Army (you know, the veteran organization that fought at Yorktown not the amateurs who who got crushed at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights)...

[texastoast]

5. Well, if you have to limit it to one . . .

I guess it would be Ben Franklin. Chimpie wouldn't have dared to try his shit with Ben around.

[tedoll78]

6. Well..

Phil Hartman was one of the firsts that came to mind. But now that I'm thinking historically, I don't know.

I'd love to meet my maternal grandparents. They both died when my mother was in high school, so I never got to meet them. She never speaks of them, but I know it's something that pains her to this day, and I hate seeing my mom in pain.

edit: grammar

[tkulesa]

7. That depends. Would it hurt?

Would it hurt a lot? :evilgrin:

[democratreformed]

8. Nothing so noble for me.

I would bring back my mother and take away the personal hell my family has been through for the past 4 1/2 years.

[Bertha Venation]

9. My mother.

She's got a helluva lotta 'splainin' to do.

Then she can go back.

[maveric]

10. The man on your avatar. RFK

He would have brought great progress and rationality to this country had he not been killed, and beat Nixon in 1968.
He also would have re-investigated the assasination of his brother exposing the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that IMO was responsible for the deaths of JFK,MLK as well as the deaths of 58,000 in Viet Nam.

[StopTheMorans]

11. Mr. Rogers, he was the best

n/t

[Book Lover]

12. My mother

She passed on about 6 weeks ago, and we want her back.

[trumad]

14. Ronald Reagan

[nini]

23. sorry for your loss..

:hug:

[Book Lover]

28. Thank you very much

And my condolences to everyone who has posted on this thread with their own losses. Death is the enemy sometimes, though perhaps not in my mother's case due to her very ill health.

:hug: to all

[bleedingheart]

15. One of Jesus's contemporaries so he could tell us what it was all about

and so he/she could critique this passion movie...

[Fenris]

19. Why not the Man Himself?

Maybe He could elaborate on the Gospels and maybe tell either us or the fundies why we're wrong.

[beanball]

29. Christ

is not dead,He is in Heaven.We don't refer to Christ as the man,He is the son of God,therefore he is God.

[Fenris]

34. But He did experience physical death, did He not?

That would make Him physically dead. He may exist spiritually, but His physical body is no more.

[bif]

16. Ralph Nadar

Oh, he just looks like he's dead.

[ronnykmarshall]

17. My brother

It's a toss up between him and my dad. But my brother died at 31 so I guess it would be him.

[arwalden]

18. I Cannot Decide. Too Many Lost Friends...

I'd give my magic to someone else to use.

-- Allen

[RC]

20. Paul Wellstone

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14399

[loftycity]

21. John F Kennedy..nt

[nini]

22. Prescott Bush at 15 - and get him sterilized.

snip snip buddy!

[magnolia]

25. Other than personal family and friends...

...I pick John Kennedy Junior. He died too young. We could really use him right now out campaigning for our candidates. I'd like "George" magazine back.

I'd like to have everyone who died on 9/11 back. For their sakes of course and their family's. And for selfish reasons...to see where GWB would be without his trifecta...and his war on terra.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. My stepson's baby boy...

without another thought. 5 months was too young.

[BrotherBuzz]

27. Will Rogers

This nation sure needs some common sense, down-to-earth logic on morality, and I think Will did it better then anyone. Never fly with a one eyed pilot.

[Mobius]

30. My 10 year old cousin Dawn

She was burned severely over 80% of her body at 5 years old. She had to where many compression bandages and had bad scarring. Kids teased her until the only friend she had left was a girl in her class that was undergoing cancer treatment, and was bald. The kids made fun of her too. This friend succumbed to her illness and Dawn felt alone. A few weeks later, Dawn drove her bike into a semi, and was killed. I wish I could tell her how much I love her, and miss her and how we all want her here.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. Carl Sagan (nt)

[midnight armadillo]

32. The Marquis de Sade

Just to keep life interesting :party:

[OneBlueSky]

33. Louis Armstrong . . .

just so I could see him perform just once . . .

[CBHagman]

My gut reaction was Paul Wellstone.

But he would want to have Sheila with him, so that's TWO people.

I also would have said FDR, but perhaps Eleanor Roosevelt would be the more progressive choice (She was the visionary, or so I gathered).

Then there's RFK.

Aargh.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. Without a doubt Jesus Christ...

I would love to see him get all "cleaning out the temple" all over Falwell/Robertson/Phelps/Dobson's asses.

I would like to see him on Larry King telling the world where we got it right and were we got it wrong.

I'd love to see him standing in the SF City Hall rotunda performing a same-sex marriage.

And I'd love to see him confront George W. Bush.

"Hey George, Dad's pissed off, big time!"

[elcondor]

37. Robert Kennedy or my grandfather

[Heyo]

38. I would have to say....

Albert Einstein.

[Minstrel Boy]

39. Louise Brooks,

but only if she can be 20 years old, crazy about me and my wife understands.

I was going to be unselfish and say RFK, MLK, Wellstone or another martyr for justice, but knowing this world, they'd just get killed again.

[Onlooker]

40. God

Make him/her take responsibility for what s/he's done.

[Heyo]

43. And...

what exactly has God done?

[Shanty Oilish]

41. My first husband

It's been decades but it still hurts. I've got another husband, love him dearly, and yeah, it'd be problematic in some ways, but his motto is---when Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. So I'm pretty sure he'd adjust. :)

[scarlet_owl]

42. My brother.

I never got to meet him.