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He essentially has to be kept away from voters.
Let's just say this: I spent a few days with the dude early in 2006. I've worked with a lot of candidates over the years, many of whom are a little loopy, and a few of whom are crazed. But nobody as socially whacked as Davis.
One anecdote: he eats lunch at the same diner ever day. At the same exact time. For 35 minutes. Either chicken noodle soup or beef noodle soup. One or two packages of crackers. One cup of coffee.
Every day. Same exact time.
The revolution will not be televised, but we'll analyze it to death at The Next Hurrah.
by DHinMI on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:34:54 PM PDT
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Who records every waking moment in his diaries. Every. Waking. Moment.
But, actually Graham wasn't bad for a Floida Dem-Wanna-Be-President.
Was Davis weirder than Ross Perot?
Resist much, obey little. ~~Edward Abbey, via Walt Whitman
by willyr on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:40:16 PM PDT
And Graham is beloved. People really love the guy, and he was a great politician.
Davis is antisocial.
BTW, I read recently that Thomas Jefferson apparently kept a journal almost as detailed as Graham's.
by DHinMI on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:41:59 PM PDT
then how he re-wound the videos?
watched video
rewound video
wrote in my journal about rewinding video
sheesh.
But yeah..Graham really was ok on the issues. I'm glad he didn't get the Dem nomination in 2004 though. We might have lost!
by willyr on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:46:55 PM PDT
Obsessive-compulsive people are notorious for maintaining routines, which are in essence rituals, and dread any disruption of them.
Of course, many wonderful, capable, decent people were or could have been obsessive-compulsive (Kant could fall into the second category) so this is not at all an excuse, but perhaps an explanation...?
Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur, inveteratum fit plerumque robustius. - Cicero
by Dauphin on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:41:29 PM PDT
...anti-social, and quite unpleasant.
Some people who have OCD are sympathetic. He may have OCD, but he's certainly not sympathetic.
by DHinMI on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:43:16 PM PDT
Being a twit, unfortunately, can't.
Let's hope the primary contender wins.
by Dauphin on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 03:45:03 PM PDT
So he's flexible.
by trivium on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 04:03:23 PM PDT
Or maybe more like Howard Hughes crazy?
~Doc~
-7.88 -8,77 Just a wine sipping, brie eating, $6 coffee drinking, Prius driving, over educated, liberal, white, activist, male New Englander for Barack Obama.
by EquationDoc on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 04:14:35 PM PDT
wide narrow
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