Steven Colbert was passionately ambivalent about Ron Paul! For those that haven't seen Colbert before, you have to understand that he does parody of people like Hannity and O'Reilly. He comes off as a neo-con in this piece, which gets a lot of laughs (like "I'm a small government guy except when the President wants to do something"). My favorite is calling Dr Paul an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery. And the response is that Colbert is confused, because Dr Paul is a Constitutionalist. I do wish that Dr Paul had gotten a chance to explain more fully why he wanted to get rid of all those departments at the end. People don't realize that the activities of these departments should be left to the states or the people, so that we have some competition and innovation, rather then central control. In other words, most of these violate the 10th amendment (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people).


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