Preferred Speakers at the Inauguration...

[cosmokramer]

...loved Maya Angelo in 1992.

Any thoughts?

Poets, dignitaries, etc. NOT politicians currently in office.

[bluestateguy]

1. John Kerry

Let's not get too ahead of ourselves, k?

[cosmokramer]

3. Geez, just having a little fun!

[fujiyama]

14. I was about to say...

the exact same thing!

[ewagner]

2. Nelson Mandela?

[eissa]

18. Mandela would be great

He can retell the story of how Cheney voted to keep him in prison.

I'd also love to see Al Franken, Howard Zinn and Jon Stewart.

[theorist]

4. Aristide! n/t

[JohnOneillsMemory]

15. Right on! Theme: Restoring democracy! Co-starring Al Gore,

who was, of course, the last elected president of the US.

[jenk]

5. Kerry, Edwards, Ted, Big Dog, Harold Ford

[cosmokramer]

6. Poets, dignitaries, etc. NOT politicians currently in office.

[Adelante]

7. Mario Cuomo

[ProudToBeLiberal]

8. Howard Dean. He isn't in office.

President Jacques Chirac. Noam Chomsky.

[cosmokramer]

17. Well...

...if it is Dean or Chomsky, I definitely WILL NOT be watching! LOL

[WillyBrandt]

9. James Traficant!

This guy gets a bum rap

[Leilani]

10. Christopher Reeve

to talk about how important stem cell research is, & how we're losing our lead in medical research.

[Leilani]

11. Tommy Chong

by satellite, from prison, to talk about unfair drug prosecutions.

[Leilani]

12. The Dixie Chicks & Howard Stern

on artistic freedom, & the Clear Channel/Bush Cabal.

[Leilani]

13. Robert Redford

on the Rape & Pillaging of our Environment.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

16. Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Tim Robbins, Jimmy Carter, Karen Kwiatkowski,

[adadem]

19. Al Franken! n/t

[WilliamPitt]

20. Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame

[redqueen]

21. Granny D!