Walken the line

Alternate post title: Turbizzi misses the short bus to the blogger bandwagon

I got an interesting e-mail today.

On 8/18/05, Rood, Rundles* wrote:

Tim, can you do some sleuthing around and find out if this is for real or if it is just a hoax?

http://walken2008.com

I know we have had actors involved in politics, but Christopher Walken? It makes me go hmmmmm….

Rundles Rood

Me do research? Nah, there are plenty of bloggers with way way more time on their hands to answer these important questions.

Cases in point:

http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5833740.html

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/194062.htm

And while this may seem like a let-down, my advice is to keep faith. Even though the Web site may be a well-executed hoax (one that rocked the blogosphere and duped a handful of celebrity news sites), Walken never said he isn''t running for president. And even if he isn't running officially, we can sure as heck vote for him anyway.

The sad thing is, what's less likely than Walken making a run in '08 is the idea that we will even have the option of a centrist candidate who can focus on real issues, simultaneously supporting such things as a strong military and stem cell research.

And given that Democrats might nominate John Edwards or Hillary Clinton to run against a heroic crowd-pleaser like John McCain or Rudy Giuliani, they might want to give Walken some serious thought.

He could save the Democrats some embarrassment and sway some of the right-leaning swing voters who swear up and down that the best president of all time was an actor.

With all that in mind, I'm going to print myself one of those posters.

* Named changed to make it even more obvious who I'm talking about.