Looking very relaxed, too.

Posted July 30, 2008 11:57 PM by Bob Oldendorf

I'm just delighted that you also know and love the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Huzzah!

Posted July 31, 2008 12:25 AM by Chris W.

If Carter had done that in 1980 we might have been saved the Reagan years.

Posted July 31, 2008 2:54 AM by Linkmeister

Carter on harmonica, Clinton on tenor, Blair on lead guitar. Where's the rhythm section?

Posted July 31, 2008 3:46 AM by chris y

Wasn't that the Purple Gang?

Posted July 31, 2008 5:36 AM by Tykewriter

I've been to the jazz bar in Prague where, after a summit meeting, Bill Clinton (tenor sax) had a jam session with Vaclav Havel (piano)... Havel is still well-loved by Czechs for, inter alia, his habit of turning to visiting heads of state after the formal dinner up at the Hradcany palace and saying "Shall we go down the pub?"

Posted July 31, 2008 6:59 AM by ajay

#4: Tipper Gore on drums.

Posted July 31, 2008 7:12 AM by Jon Meltzer

"Keynsham. Tell me more about Keynsham..."

If you need a conductor, of course, there was always Edward Heath. (Not the swing bandleader, either.)

Posted July 31, 2008 7:52 AM by Alex

...and a great favorite of all of us here, J. Arthur Rank on gong.

Posted July 31, 2008 8:04 AM by Fred A Levy Haskell

For one moment I thought the late prime minister had been resurrected and turned into a virtuoso.

Posted July 31, 2008 8:06 AM by Fragano Ledgister

Wow, the former president's playing is pretty impressive. As for the rhythm section, unfortunately we must not forget Mike Huckabee on electric bass.

Posted July 31, 2008 8:44 AM by Rob Thornton

Really wild, General! (YouTube link to a fan-made montage of the personages mentioned in the song.)

YouTube is a good source for your daily requirement of Bonzo. See the original video of "Death Cab for Cutie" with John and George digging the stripper, and "Little Sir Echo" with the ventriloquist act (Sam Spoons?) that has forever altered how I think of this song. It starts off with "The Equestrian Statue," by the way, as should we all.

Posted July 31, 2008 9:23 AM by Kip W

And, again in the "unfortunate" category, Condi Rice on piano.

Posted July 31, 2008 10:10 AM by Jon Meltzer

#1 - Nice dodging of Godwin's Law.

#6 - Didn't somebody once do an Evening with Vaclav Havel and Lou Reed? I seem to remember they agreed on everything but Michael Jackson.

Posted July 31, 2008 12:44 PM by Sarah

My favorite Vaclav Havel data point is that his first official invitee to Prague was Frank Zappa.

Posted July 31, 2008 1:54 PM by JESR

Godwin doesn't work that way. (Or in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. I added that after previewing.)

Posted July 31, 2008 10:40 PM by Kip W

15: OK, there's a good question for you: after some political upheaval, you have become the first democratically elected president of Ruritania. Who is your first official invitee?

Posted August 1, 2008 4:37 AM by ajay

Who would I invite? The high school counselor who thought I was doomed to fail. Pwn!

Posted August 1, 2008 11:06 AM by Manny