Campaign for Truthiness: Colbert for President
October 17, 2007
Three words: Colbert for President! Last night, Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for President of the United Sates. Finally, this country may get some truth(iness) in the Oval Office!
I haven't decided whether I'd really vote for him or not. But, I did find that some of the comments on the Indecision 2008 website post were convincing enough — at least for consideration.
- America will get truthiness — finally!
- More interesting (most likely hilarious) State of the Union addresses
- He's a good Christian - teaches Sunday school; hopefully his morals will be an actual influence on his decisions.
- Not a politician and has with no experience = good thing. Take our current office for example. Cheney and Rove have the biggest résumés of anyone else in the government — and look where we are now!
- However, he is politically savvy.
- He has no party affiliation since he's running as a Democrat and a Republican (I realize this is a joke, but so is our current system)
Just some food for thought. Most likely he has a chance to go as far, if not further, than Perot. He's a pop-culture icon! He has his own "nation" following him. And he has so much weight with the youth that they might actually come out and vote!
What do you think?
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