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Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal
eldavojohn writes "Some of you may know about Steven Colbert's fake presidential campaign... although are you sure it's fake? Well, it had better be because if it is taken too far — such as if he actually gets on the Republican and/or Democratic ballot in South Carolina — his use of corporations & advertising to back his campaign could get the attention of the Federal Election Commission. Doritos & Comedy Central could be facing some problems as well, funding a man running for president." A million Facebook users have signed up for the "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert" group in the last week — though the group could be read as a satire of Barack Obama's similarly-named group, which has fewer than 400,000 members after 9 months.
Over 70% of the American population supports immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Cite a reliable source for that number. I think you'll find that the majority of the US wish it was over, and quickly, but aren't such fools as to think that just packing up and leaving is actually in anyone's interests, excepts Iran's.
And if the factions in Iraq are truly intent on civil war, they'll wait as long as needed to have one.
The factions in Iraq are far more inclined to get pissed at each other when operatives from, equipped, and/or financed/trained by Iran blow things up specifically to inflame sectarian conflicts. That's exactly the point.
I know of a few candidates for president that would end the war immediately, and I don't think it's fair to categorize them as mistaken.
You're as confused as they are, then. You can't just "end the war." If we could just "end the war," then it would already BE ended. You want to end our involvement IN the war, and seem to have a preference for the all-out, world destablizing conflict that would ensue if the Turks, the Iranians, the Syrians, and everyone else suddenly decided it was time to annex and fight over Iraq. Why is it you prefer that outcome over a constitutional democracy?
What's slipping past you is that they could defund the war immediately by preventing any spending bill from hitting the floor.
But they DON'T, because they know they can't and shouldn't. Because they'd only have to spend far more in money and lives later as a result. You know that, too. But you're so busy looking for a local political fight on other matters that you're willing to pretend that's not true just so you can bitch about the current administration. Remember the lies about WMD?
No, actually. I remember that every other major power in the world developed similar intel, and that Saddam visibly had giant piles of some of the nastiest chemical weapons ever made, and refused to destroy them or show what he'd done with them. By the way, do YOU know where all of that VX went? No one else does, either.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You assume far too much about me. My politics are none of your concern, but you can rest assured that I am not a Republican of any stripe. Indeed, Stewart's and Colbert's comments "about my party" cannot apply to me, since no party represents me.
What you don't seem to realize is that Stewart and Colbert have done far more to subvert the left in America than Limbaugh or O'Reilly ever dreamed of.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Jon Stewart doesn't really have a "character" at all.
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How adorably naive.
As for Colbert, it's clear that Stephen Colbert the person (and one who is running) holds wildly different views from Stephen Colbert the pundit.
I must wonder how you feel justified in saying that you know anything about Stephen Colbert's real opinions, given that your only access to them is through the facade he has constructed for public consumption.
The same goes for Stewart and his "pepperings".
After all, I am strangely colored.