Aug 08 2007
Christopher Walken for President?
This one seems to have come in under the radar, but apparently the Oscar-winning actor Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter, Pulp Fiction, True Romance) is going to run for president in ‘08, as an independent. From the Walken 2008 website:
“Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to promote a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It’s time to be smart about our politics. It’s time to get America back on track.”
It’s not a joke, but it seems that he should have gotten the ball rolling a bit earler if he hopes to get any sort of visibility at all, if for no other reason than to press the issues. It’ll be interesting to see if this is able to make a ripple at all in the campaign. At the very least, it might make it a bit more interesting. And he’s a hell of a lot better actor than Reagan was.
As an interesting side note, his parents had a summer home next door to my grandmother’s house in Florida. I used to stay there every now and then and used to party my teen years away with his nephew, Jesse, too.
UPDATED: Well, shame on me. Hat tip to kestrel over at GMD… it IS a joke, easily debunked on Snopes.com. Perhaps there is a future for me at the op-ed pages of the Caledonian Record.
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