Hail to America

The online circus revolving around the 2008 elections grows ever more spectacular with the help of Stephen Colbert, who appeared as a guest columnist for The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, shortly after he called the paper "kindling."

In addition to jocular references of drinking on the job, the Dowd/Colbert column dubs the 2008 election "important" in a manner "unlike all previous elections."

After a pithy description of the major candidates involved, including Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, Colbert observes that the nation is "at a Fork in the Road" in which they are not only uncertain what they want; they probably need to be told what they should want.

And the natural candidate is, of course, Colbert himself.
Colbert is currently in the process of promoting his new book, I Am America, (And So Can You!).