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    Stephen Colbert
    Topic Started: Oct 17 2007, 09:40 PM (1,026 Views)
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    Nintendo_Golfer
    Oct 17 2007, 09:40 PM
    Running for President of the USA In South Carolina

    Think about this.

    yeah, see, each state has it's own primary... <_< I suppose I could've written it more specifically, but I really don't see your point.

    You'll have to forgive me if I don't fully understand the election process in America, but wouldn't running as a candidate in only one primary guarantee you can't run for president, no matter how well you do there? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding semantics or something, but aren't you running as a hopeful until you win a majority of primaries, then you get to run for president?

    Come to think of it, how do you even run in just one primary?


    I am sorry, it's the semantics.



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    Oh, wait or are the primaries to elect the delegates to elect the presidential candidate?

    Yes. That is how I understand it.

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    So is what he's saying is he's putting his name forward as a hopeful presidential candidate, and running as a delegate in SC?


    yes. It takes some political work to get your name on a state's ballot though, and he is only going to do that in South Carolina. That is how he will technically be seeking the presidency, but only on the SC primary ballot.

    It's all been one extended joke he's made of the process of electing a candidate, and he's said he'd be surprised and happy to hear that he gets jut one delegate from SC.

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    He also wants to go back to the gold standard; this willmake sure we don't do any needless spending and borrowing from other countries and not paying it back

    take economics. I don't have my book on me now, but there's a reason no country in the world uses the gold standard. and I think he's been quoted as wanting to get rid of the federal reserve, which would be retarded.
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    Oct 21 2007, 04:57 AM
    He also wants to go back to the gold standard; this willmake sure we don't do any needless spending and borrowing from other countries and not paying it back. I think it's a little overboard, but it'll better than what it is now. There's much more but I'm not going to go into detail, at least right now. I don't get what you people want.

    Why does the world need a return to the Gold Standard?

    As things stand, all that's needed is a reduction in the United States' national debt- keeping to a floating currency shouldn't be too hard provided confidence in the USD can be restored.

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    Well most of the democrats are for a gradual pull-out, but if he's elected, odds are we're staying for at least another couple of years.

    And this is a bad thing why?

    It's a choice between pulling out now and leaving the nation to implode spectacularly, Vietnam-style, or staying and exerting a stabilising influence on the situation whilst the country continues to thrash its way through its development.

    Running away with your collective tail between your legs would be a juvenile way of handling the situation- unless the situation really is pointless.
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    It is pointless. And I did not know that Vietman "imploded," something new to me. We have to "Run with our tail between our legs" because we went in there not knowing what the heck we were doing. Most of the Iraqi citizens want us out, as apposed to most of them liked that we were there at first, but now they're seeing we're just making a mess of things.

    I didn't say the world needed to, just us. But I needed to make my statement clearer, I said going back to the gold standard was a little overboard. I don't want to go back to it, but I said it would be better than the US dollar going down the drain. It would definitely teach the government that they don't have an endless supply of money.

    EDIT: And even if Colbert did some how win the popular vote, the Electoral College wouldn't allow him to be president. I just learned more about it in class. :P
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