Wow. I dont know whether to believe this or not. But it looks legit. Would anyone here vote for him?

Stephen Colbert to Run for President

By JAKE COYLE –

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for president on "The Colbert Report" on Tuesday night, tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.

"I shall seek the office of the President of the United States," announced Colbert on his Comedy Central show, as balloons fell around him.

Colbert had recently satirized the coyness of would-be presidential candidates by refusing to disclose whether he would seek the country's highest office — a refusal that often came without any prompting.

His recent best-seller, "I Am American (And So Can You!)" afforded him the opportunity to mock the now-standard approach to a White House run, complete with a high-profile book tour.

The Comedy Central host has often mobilized his fans ("Colbert Nation"), encouraging them to vote to have a Hungarian bridge named after him, for example, or to vandalize Wikipedia.com with his version of "truthiness" and "wikiality."

How far the mock conservative pundit planned to stretch his impression of a presidential candidate wasn't clear. Colbert rarely breaks character on camera, including at his memorable speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner last year.

Colbert planned to get his name on the primary ballot in South Carolina, where the comedian is originally from. Earlier this week, South Carolina public television station ETV invited Colbert to announce his candidacy on its air.

When recently asked what party affiliation he would adopt if he tossed his hat in the ring, Colbert replied: "Both. I can lose twice."

In a guest column for Maureen Dowd in Sunday's New York Times, Colbert wrote: "I am not ready to announce yet — even though it's clear that the voters are desperate for a white, male, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative."

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I wish Lou Dobbs would run for President.

Its half jokingsly, he's really only trying to do it in one state for the heck of it, he should name Jon his running mate, would probably give him more votes

I would vote for him, if I were a US citizen.

I'd vote for him. Just because i really don't care anymore.

After i found out one of the big negatives for most American voters was "He seems too smart" i've lost pretty much all hope as far as poltics go.

How can someone be "Too smart" to be president. He's going to be running the country, not getting drinks with you! I mean, it's just embarrising when you have a president and a foreign ambassador and the ambassador speaks better english! (Aside from England.)

I mean, the president SHOULD be smarter then you. Or atleast smarter then the average everyday person. Otherwise why not just draft the president like they used to do with the Army. Sure "The president has a lot of advisors and stuff help with everything" but doesn't that make the point of a president who seems "too smart" moot anyway?

Wouldn't you rather have a president that knows what his advisors are advising? Bah.

Yeah tell me about it. I figured Barack Obama being Muslim and of African descent would be his biggest hurdles but apparently people feel that he is too smart. I mean after all this time of Bush screwing up, you'd think a smart person would be cleaning up the votes. Of course Gore being smart didn't help him in the 2000 Election.

The saddest thing is that there do exist about 5 people in this election that I would vote for Colbert over. Sad, but true. And one of those gets decent numbers in the polls, even.

Sadly here in the US the idiots are intimidated by intelligent people and vote for those most like them (Idiots). So basically about 52% of the US are mental midgets. Thank god I'm in the 48% (ish) bracket of intelligent people who didn't vote for Bush.

lol I'd vote for him.

This guy has had my admiration since I saw the video of his performance at the White House correspondents dinner... A must see!

I'm now getting his book, "I Am America (And So Can You!)".

PS: Despite the fact that I'm not even American.