thank you stephen colbert

Thanks for opting in to the ’08 presidential race!  This will definitely make the ride a lot less dreary over the next year.  A new edition of the  ThankYouStephenColbert blog should be in order.

In his own words:

"I don’t want to be president. I want to run for  president. There’s a
difference," the host of Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report" said in
a television interview.

    — Colbert says his presidential run is no joke, Reuters

The entertainment value will be unparalleled and nearly unprecedented.

This does bring to mind  Jello Biafra’s  1979  San Francisco mayoral bid. Something which also started out as a joke.   Even during the process, his campaign consisted of pranks galore. Yet  Jello still came in 4th in the race, out of 10 candidates.

Here’s a  stretch — if you or someone you know is a registered voter in South Carolina, download the petition, sign and share with twenty of your  SC-voter-registered friends. Put the six-degrees magic to work on this one.

We all thought Schwarzenegger was joking around in 2003