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...Last time I ran, I benefited from a ‘throw the bums out’ sentiment. This time I’m one of the bums,” he adds. “If I want to win, I need to show that I’m interested in reforming city government—and that’s a lesson my colleagues can learn from...
Facebook isn’t the best measure of serious political sentiment in the country—probably not many of Colbert’s 1.4 million Facebook backers intend to cast a vote for Steven come primary day. But the unprecedented level of support for him speaks volumes about the popular perception of presidential politics. Colbert is a satirist who mocks the system—his entire character is a self-parodying illusion. The fact that a “fake” candidacy can generate so much more enthusiasm than any of the various “real?...
Colbert’s candidacy may be more publicity stunt than anything else, but the sentiment behind it is genuine. This mock-run is not the first manifestation of a surprisingly widespread desire to put Colbert or his fellow fake news show host Jon Stewart in the White House. (A popular line of “Stewart-Colbert ’08” t-shirts already surfaced earlier this fall.) Certainly the belief that Colbert and Stewart could fix the nation’s political woes is a fantasy, but perhaps it’s a more compelling fantasy...
Thankfully, we have for the past few years elected undergraduate councils that have closely mirrored student sentiment on campus. But the Undergraduate Council (UC) system still puts a handful of students in a privileged state. There will always be only one or two students on committees meeting behind closed doors in University Hall. There will always be a handful of students who know what’s about to happen next in the search for the next dean. There will always be representatives who, noble as they may be in seeking to speak for their constituency at large, will always...
...pedophile" group using humanitarian cover for "child trafficking." Chad, the lawyer notes, has objected to a French-led deployment of European Union peacekeeping forces in eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees, and could be exploiting the Zoe's Ark case to whip up anti-foreigner sentiment. Chadian leaders deny those accusations, and say the E.U. troop deployment will proceed as planned. Regardless, other humanitarian aid groups attending to the Darfur crisis says the atmosphere in the region has turned suspicious and hostile since the Zoe's Ark affair exploded...