If you could shoot/hunt WITH any President?

[pax]

I'd love to go on safari with Theodore Roosevelt.

Re Obama, I wouldn't much enjoy traipsing the fields with a man who didn't want to be there.

Also, "jokes" about firearms "accidents" with a current or former American President are not just in poor taste -- they can be evidence of criminal intent. Please don't post them here.

pax

 

[ZeroJunk]

I voted Washington. Not that I don't appreciate Roosevelt, I would just like to have seen it when Washington was around.

 

[rbernie]

Not Lincoln - he sacrificed the Republic to save the Union and I'd have no stomach for the discourse. Reagan was a big horseback rider and would be good for campfire chats, but not likely much for scrambling over terrain. I'm not sure that Jefferson wasn't a bit too, well, used to comfortable living to really enjoy huntin'.

I'm gonna have to go with TR.

 

[SilentHitz]

Had to go with Washington on this one. The country was still young and mostly unmolested, would have loved to see it that way, and spend time talking to the man who led it to it's freedom. Would make for some awesome war stories by the campfire for sure.

 

[Edward429451]

That was a perfectly good joke! The man destroys your country and I can't even grumble grumble rant rant..... jeeze

Ok all jokes aside....hmmm I guess Andrew Jackson. But for the Indian thing I hear he was a nice fellow. Or TR if I get yelled at for that...

Sorry. It's hard to keep a straight face while making deerburger....mmmm

 

[Buzzcook]

With the exception of Lincoln and perhaps Washington all of those guys have some serious character flaws.

George Washington was unfailingly formal. If you were thinking of kicking back and just shooting the breeze you'd be really disappointed. If you transgressed on what he considered to be proper behavior he could be down right scary.

Abe Lincoln was probably the easiest guy to get along with of all the presidents and certainly the greatest raconteur.

I know TR is a popular choice and I find lots to admire about him, but if he got off on one of his xenophobic, or bigoted rants, it'd be pretty tough to be around him.

Of the guys not mentioned LBJ was probably the one it'd be easiest to hang out with if you could keep from being over powered by his personality.
Tuttle8 and I disagree.
Garfield imho is the most intriguing president because of what he might have done as president. It's arguable that America might have been a vastly different place had he not been assassinated.
I'd like to talk to him about what might have been.

In the end I chose a living ex-president, because the dead take so long to answer a question.

 

[orionengnr]

Thomas Jefferson, hands down.

 

[Tanglefoot]

TR, Obama or Reagan.

Chances are I'd be pleasantly surprised by Obama and Reagan as individual men. TR simply based based on the man, the myth and the legend.

Voted for TR though.

Wow, forgot about LBJ - good point Buzzcook.

 

[Shane Tuttle]

Your not trying to have a hunting accident are you?

Nope. Not at all. Aside from my personal and political viewpoints regarding Obama and his probable disinterest as pax stated, I would STILL chose him. Believe me, it goes against every grain of my being to type his name instead of Teddy Roosevelt (my favorite president anyway). But what real good is it to let a chance of a lifetime to personally witness to the most powerful figurehead on the planet? My personal opionion is it's my DUTY to sieze the moment. Instead of hamming it up with someone for personal gain, I'd rather take my chances on the hope to give him food for thought. Do I expect him to make a 180? No, I don't. But to sit idly by and waste an oppurtunity to discuss what we believe in, I would never forgive myself.

 

[kraigwy]

Of the ones listed I picked Bush, the rest are dead and I dont think I would want to dig them up and pack them on a hunting trip.

All Kidding aside, I'd rather go fly fishing with Dick Cheney

 

[GregM727]

George W Bush. If only to thank him for ending the liberal stranglehold on the Supreme Court. Then we could go have a great Texas hunt on HIS ranch.

 

[Rembrandt]

Have had the privilege to meet four on the list, Bush 1 & 2, Reagan, and Chuck Heston....all would be great choices but I'm going with Ike. The chance to shoot with the European Supreme Allied Commander of WWII and converse about the challenges of those times....priceless. Ike was also an avid clay shooter.

 

[Atroxus]

I voted TR, and of course we would be shooting in africa, at large beasties. Only the edible kinds though, am not interested in trophies.

 

[sakeneko]

That's easy -- Theodore Roosevelt, cause then I could wrangle an invitation to meet John Muir too. ;-) Truthfully, I would absolutely *love* to meet Roosevelt, as well. I'm rather blessed in that I had a great-grandmother who lived well into her 100s who knew Roosevelt through his oldest daughter, Alice, a friend of hers in Washington D.C. when Roosevelt was president and they were both teenagers.

I'm not a hunter and just an occasional fisherwoman, but I love the outdoors. There's no president that has ever loved the outdoors and the natural world like Theodore Roosevelt. I wonder if there ever will be again?

 

[Shane Tuttle]

After deleting/editing several posts, I caution against referring to Dick Cheney references anymore. Besides, he was never our president.

 

[4V50 Gary]

Washington. So much to ask him about on the French & Indian War and the American Revolution.

 

[raftman]

I'm gonna have to pick Barack Obama as well. As a former anti-gun person myself, I think there's hope for most anyone's mind; and he does seem like he can be a very reasonable individual at times. I figure, he would enjoy himself, have a good time, and gain some good perspective.

Heck, even that fellow from the Michigan militia who gave that recent television interview said he'd welcome Obama to a barbecue with that group.

 

[KenpoTex]

I guess I'll be different and go with "Old Hickory"...that guy was hard as woodpecker lips as the saying goes.

There may be others that I'd pick if the question was "who would you like to sit down for a chat with," (Jefferson, Adams, or Madison) but as far as shooting? Yeah, Jackson.

 

[BlueTrain]

I should say Washington, because my wife is a colatteral decendent (meaning he had no decendents, my wife is decended from his brother or something like that but otherwise comes with no benefits--though I've seen the basement at Mt. Vernon). Anyway, my wife's grandmother's grandfather owned Mt. Vernon. But that's too far back.

Nobody will like this choice but I think Jimmy Carter would be a pleasant companion and is the only person besides T.R. who ever wrote about hunting and shooting. Second to that is Hoover, who liked fishing up at his camp in the Shenandoah and was present in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

 

[HiBC]

Along with what has already been said about "jokes"

They are in the same class as certain "jokes" at an airport.

The joker is likely to find no one is laughing.

If we value the Second Ammendment,we must take very good care of it.

That includes being conscious of careless remarks.It is a lot like not leaving bullet holes in roadsigns.They say to everyone that passes,"Look,a destrucive idiot moron gunowner."

In fact,nothing would create more chaos,and be more destrutive to Liberty,and the Second Ammendment,than if some idiot did something horrible.

We change presidents at the Ballot Box.

And,Lao Tzu said something like"What is a good man,but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man,but a good man's job"

The folks who wouldshow him a good time have a point.