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Stephen Colbert on the 2012 election

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David Gregory---who is pretty much the epitome of a sellout newsman (not a journalist, mind you)---interviewed Stephen Colbert. He was out of character, for once, and was quite eloquent in answering Gregory's question as to what Colbert thinks of the two candidates: <bq author="Stephen Colbert" href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/meet-the-press/49407278" source="MSNBC" caption="PRESS Pass: Stephan Colbert" date="October 14th, 2012">I'm not Ralph Nader; I [do] think there is a difference [between the two candidates/parties]. I don't know what the difference is, though. I think that there is the possibility that Obama would be, say, more aggressive...a more aggressive changer or reformer in the second act of his presidency. But I don't really know, I also don't know how Mitt Romney would govern. He might govern as a technocrat, you know, that sort of seems to have been his career. It's like the guy from Pepsi who comes in to run GM, you know, he can't tell us what he's going to do because he hasn't seen the books yet. But we don't know, because he seems absolutely sincere as a moderate, but he also seemed pretty sincere as a severe conservative, so ... that's not a dig, it's honest confusion. 'Cause he's got a good shot at winning and, if he does, I hope he's a good president. And, and, ... if Obama wins, I hope he keeps some of the promises he didn't keep the first time. But I have no idea how it changes for us, but I know that there's got to be a difference between these two men or we're all part of a huge, cruel joke.</bq> It's not that Nader doesn't think that there is any difference between the two <i>candidates</i>, it's that he acknowledges that there is very little difference between the party platforms in the issues that matter, the issues that make a difference in the lives of the little people. Are there differences between the candidates? Certainly. Are there differences between their espoused platforms? Absolutely. Do we have any idea how much of those platforms they actually care about enough to waste precious political capital on? We do not. Romney has held every political position possible within the narrow confines of acceptable American opinion. He holds the views he thinks those listening to him want to hear. Obama, on the other hand, is relatively consistent in what he <i>says</i> but he is also very consistent in what he <i>does</i>---and the twain only rarely meet, to paraphrase Kipling.