August 29 at 5:00AM
The Colbert Report: MLK Wouldn't Vote for Barack Obama
We judge our presidential candidates through the lens of the 60s, and now the dead have joined in. An article in last week's National Review concludes Martin Luther King, Jr. wouldn't vote for Barack Obama, and while we're at it neither would Robert Kennedy or Jimi Hendrix.
Can Obama take us into the future or are we stuck in our grandparents' culture war?
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STEPHEN! Forget this! Come to Canada and run for Prime Minister. All of our candidates suck! STEPHEN COLBERT FOR PM!
ps. for those of you who didn't know, our existing PM, Conservative Stephen Harper has called a general election
I think we'll be taken into the future so long as the giant aliens keep cranking the wheel of time. I don't feel stuck in my grandparents culture war, but perhaps they neglected their responsability when it came to my indoctrination. A grandparent can get distracted sometimes. I was thinking that some members of the Colbert nation might not want to stand in line a polls and so wanted to pass along this link: http://www.longdistancevoter.org/voter_forms A list of states that allow no excuse absentee voting can be found at: http://www.votebymailproject.org/votebymailinyourstate.html
I think so. I think he is passionate about changing things. and I think he will do better than the other 2. How can Mccain really care when all he wants is 1 term. This isn't dedication. This is just before I die, I want to have become the President of the U.S. and get all the perks from it. That's it. Like being rich isn't enough. What if things aren't all in place yet. I don't care. I'm outta here. I'm rich. I get my free medical for life. He really doesn't care and I really think Obama does. He still have small children. There should be an age limit for running. He is a senior citizen. I will never vote for Mccain. they are the ones who put us in this big mess. And now that he has the girl with him, the republican party is different now, huh? NO.
What can you say? Barack Obama…Stop hogging the covers. Joe Biden…A naturally occurring lulluby. Sarah Palin…Dutch oven…something stinks. John McCain…I can't sleep when something stiff keeps poking me.
Metaphorically speaking of course…maybe.
I cannot believe that Mr. Colbert or his staff made a big, big, BIG boo-boo, but it looks like they did!
On September 16th, Mr. Colbert reported that Pravda (a major Russian newspaper) had run articles calling Sara Palin a cow, among other similarly descriptive monikers.
I like cows a lot. They provide us with a lot of things, including dairy products and manure we can actually use. So I didn't think this kind of namecalling was very fair to them, particularly since it was purportedly done in a foreign language. I decided to check it out.
I went to Pravda's Web site and searched it for articles about Ms. Palin (in Russian, of course). I did it that way because I figured there were probably lots of articles about cows and it would take too long to go through them all.
I tried three different spellings of Palin's name (in Russian), but retrieved no articles at all.
Hmmm….I guess that means that Pravda writers are more concerned about things like South Ossetia, plane crashes, their own political issues, etc. How surprising, if not shocking, is THAT?
Also, it seems Russian speakers haven't even paid enough attention to Palin to even agree on how to spell her name. I found stuff about here when I searched on all three variants (using a Russian search engine, of course) but again, there wasn't much. Maybe we should take that as a HINT, huh, Colbert Nation!!!!
Dear Mr. Colbert,
I appreciate your courage to edify the masses, and stand your ground like David against the godless Goliath of this planet.
However, please consider whether or not you are undermining the power of your opinion and voice by carelessly invoking the precious and powerful name of the Lord when relaying those messages. God's name is real, it really has powerful, and He's really irritated when it's used as a by-line for comedic effect or out of habit.
Respectfully yours, and a fan-just-short-of-the-sin-of-idolatry,
Lori
…I meant, "…it really has power…"
Obama's entire campaign can be summarized by the
Three Dog Night song "Joy to the World". Listen to it and imagine
him leading the congregation.
Why is the McCain campaign so uptight about the pigs with lipstick remark? And it didn't even refer to Palin. On the other hand, Palin herself referred to herself as a pit bull with lipstick—isn't a female pit bull called a bitch? Hmmmm.
Personally, I want someone with more smarts than a glorified beauty queen (sorry, I mean ex)from a teeny, tiny town the size of Wasilla to serve as the potential President of the United States. I hope those who support her will wake up. Soon.
I support Obama, I'll start with that.
But the current society is pretty messed up. We do need change-something fresh. The experience arguement is blasphamous. Maybe we need something fresh and not an old fart who is affected by the old politics yet.
But one man can not change all the racists that are the dixiecrats, republicans, or whatever. If he is elected, he will change some and anger the racists even more.