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Craziness in Concord

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:26 PM by Mark Murray
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From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
CONCORD, NH -- Even New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner was willing to admit that today's opening of the filing period was "unusual."

At 8:35 am ET this morning, Robert Haines became the first White House hopeful to come to the Secretary of State's office here to file for the New Hampshire primary. But instead of filing, Haines launched into a prolonged rant that included several costume changes, attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton, and several threats to sue the state.

Haines -- a Republican who has run in the primary before, and has had some recent run-ins with the law -- rambled for nearly an hour before a patient Gardner began pressing him to actually file. It wasn’t until another candidate, Michael Levinson, appeared ready to file that Haines started to fill out the paperwork. Eventually, after arguments over points of election law, Haines produced a perforated credit card check in the amount of $1,000 to file.

By 11:00 am ET, state police escorted Haines out of the building. But he got his wish -- he is technically the first candidate to file, pending approval of his payment. Levinson, after outlining his views and singing a song of peace in Hebrew and Arabic, eventually announced plans to pursue a write-in campaign rather than file and pay the fee. Another declaration arrived via FedEx, from Republican Jack Shepard. The AP reports that Shepard is a fugitive living in Italy.

"Yeah, this is unusual," Gardner said.

 

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Has anyone seen jerry?
Jerry, if you submit your name, can I run as your VP?
Nah, I wouldn't go that far....

I'd just announce that Hillary finally has some serious competition........
when are the wingnuts coming in to file?
nuanced read the above again, I think they were all there! The crazies live free or die in Cowhampshire!
http://americanresearchgroup.com/

October 14th-Clinton 45% Obama 20%

March 2007-  Clinton 34% Obama 31%

Just another poll, with the same results. Obama was in a statistical dead-heat in March and is TWENTY-FIVE points behind after seven months of campaigning.
This is consistent with just about every national poll, as is the spread.
Draw your own conclusions, and prepare to learn why this poll doesn't mean anything.


Van

And they say that the Dems are the only crazies...

http://www.political-buzz.com/
Those kooky republicans...mitt the flip flopper and rudy the red nosed republican can't be far behind
With the craziness already seen in the race to move up voting dates, the craziness in Concord seems totally appropos.
And Haines is the sane one.  Then the Democrats started to show up, and all the men wanted to marry each other. Quite a scene.
Jay - those were the right wingers angling for an early draft deferment. Nothing unusual.
H P, I guess my humor was too subtle. I was implying that the real dangerous wingnuts were the "mainstream" Republican candidates who were yet to show, while the first ones to file described above were "mostly harmless".
just another day at the office. the amateurs will be in soon.

My name is Dr. Jack Shepard; I am a candidate for the Republican Nomination for President. www.jackshepardforpresident.com

Your only vote (X) for Middle East Peace


I am Veteran American Service officer I live 2 lives’s and with 2 ID. I am a Middle East Specialist who has for over 25 years experience travelled the Middle East.  I flew in to Tehran on August 30, 2007 and happily watched as on Tuesday September 4, 2007 as  Ms. Esfandiar a U.S. citizen who travelled to Iran to visit her sick mother fly who from Tehran.

I talked with many Iranians about her and the other hostages that were also arrest on spying charges. I was very very happy for her and the promises of the release very soon of the other American still in prison and I fly home on Thursday.

http://www.jackshepardforpresident.com/files/Accra.htm

I Iranians are always true to their word to me and not so long after the other Americans were also released and could flew back to America.

Iran is a country that need to be talked to with respect and if you talk to them with respect a person can do miracles. I am waiting for my next up come trip to discuss the ideas and efforts that the Iran’s have to help us stabilize Iraqi.

Hillary's crazy idea to attack Iran clearly show me and should show you she lacks military training much like her husband Bill who run from the honour to serve American.

At the height of the Vietnam War I volunteered for the USAF my military ID can be seen at http://www.jackshepardforpresident.com/images/tess3.jpg  
with an indefinite expiration.

Well Bill volunteered to run after girls and party will over 50,000 of our brave American soldiers were killed in Vietnam. The 9/11 attacks were planned and organized until Democratic president Bill Clinton.


Hillary’s attack of Iran will be the beginning of placing America an even great e unnecccessary risk then we presently are. See my web site www.jackshepardforpresident.ocm and watch my you tube videos.

This world is for real, Iraq was invaded because Discredited Paul Wolfowitz the author of the pre-emptied attack convince President Bush to do it , and Paul Wolfowitz had his loyalist for Israelis safety first before Americas.

He was honoured the person of the year in 2002 in the  Jerusalem Post. To attack Iraq because Israel wished it. And now Hillary wishes and will attack Iran because Israel wishes it. Please email and listen to my videos on you tube of on my web site. Thanks you, in this elected I think President Bush will I hope authority that I return to America to run for President I a this very moment have the highest military officer in Europe in Washington discussing where I am best needed. If you are a report ask President Bush if he will allow me to go TYD for the lection, I have asked.

I an the only (X) vote to end the Middle East Conflicts, wish more of ther same vote for ther other guys. Wish peace support me, and help me get on the other ballots, and May God Bless you. For me Americas safety is n more important then the safety of Israel theory are going to have to live t with the situation they have created in the 7 days war, and they are going to have pay billions to families of the USS Liberty that they killed 37 Americana sailors and injured another 171. About 9/11 the Israel spies were following the highjack and could have warned so. As Fox TX news  did a 4 part series that can be seen on www.shepardusgov.com my People for Peace Group web site. If you wish to join People for peace just click and join.

AIPAC orders Hillary to attack Iran. Jack Shepard for President Part 1 & 2

I please visit my web site www.jackshepardforpresident.com and join me in my drive for World Peace through direct dialogue with all nations. This video exposes Hillary Clinton speaking at the most recent AIPAC fundraiser promising to attack Iran because the leadership of the Aipac.org; the Israeli Government Lobby orders her to attack Iran if she wishes the massive millions of dollars of donations and support of AIPAC in her run for President.

For me this is a shock being the Democrats took control of the United States House and Senate on a strong anti-war movement to get our troop out of Iraq. Now we have all three of the leading Democratic Presidential Candidates: Hillary. Obama and Edwards promising a military attack of Iran which would cost America Billions of dollars and place our hundred's of thousands of American Soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and those stationed in the Gulf in much greater danger then they presently in

If Hillary attacks Iran as she promises at the AIPAC fundraiser; whole purpose of this AIPAC fundraiser was to send over five thousand AIPAC members to Washington to have over five hundred meeting with American politicians to promise them anything to get elected or re-elected if they promise to use America troops to attack Iran for Israel.

If Hillary sends American troops to attack Iran; the cost of oil would hit $150 a barrel causing a massive global recession. The Jhadist could topple our friendly Arab Governments of Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt etc. Just the fall of Pakistan would place the nuclear bomb in the hands of Radical Extreme Islamists that could use Pakistan's Nuclear weapons against America and Israel.

The leading Democratic Presidential candidates are so interested in doing what Israel demands of them, they do not care of the extreme dangers that an attack by American troops on Iran would have for America.

I swear my loyalty to American and I pledge to not do anything reckless like using our American troop to attack Iran just to get millions of dollars of donations and the support of AIPAC the Israeli Government foreign Lobby to get elected President. If elected I will immediately begin direct dialogue with every country in the world based on creating a relationship of mutual respect and trust.

Please support my candidacy for President.

When Hillary, Obama and Edwards talk about attacking Iran to please AIPAC it is literally insane to place America's safety in danger to attack Iran because that is necessary to get AIPAC 's millions of dollars in donations, which is necessary to get elected President.


nuanced, I was implying you got it and I was highlighting the fact that there are no "mostly harmless" republicans. It was a very usual day for NH!
Your humor is "priceless."
I wonder long it will take Bill Gardner to brush off his ego and set the date for the New Hampshire Primary.
"1st in the Nation" maybe tonight after Iowa tells all? Leave us the "holidays" please...!! Bill, whatever we might choose to call them "Christmas or what ever leave the NH out of it, "don't ruin it for everyone else"
I was born in concord too you know
I am a candidate for president. I drove 1200 miles to file in New Hampshire. When I arrived I decided I would run as a write-in, and challenge the voters, instead of forking over $1000. In the event you cannot be bothered to learn how to write down my name - then you don't deserve to have me.

I seek the nomination of both parties, so we present a united face to the world, as I have created a Vehicle for World Peace, sadly beyond the scope of your in-house, corporate imaginations. That's life. A kid in the local supermarket said I am on a very bumpy road, and I have to overcome all the adversity, and then I deserve to be the president. From his lips to God's ears.

First thing I did in Secretary of State Gardner's office, in New Hampshire, was recite from my Television Scripture, the hand lettered c.1971 work of art, the description of the arctic ice caps melting and coming global steam bath, amongst other world events I did not recite, like my description of Nixon leaving the White House in disgrace, and the given name of John Paul I, written down in my c.1971 book before there was a 34 day Pope, and a dozen pages after I named him, the description of his quiet passing away.

Books of living prophesy are like bottles of wine. They have to lie around for a while, mellow and tell. As world events unfold it will turn out, many of them were written down in advance. The shame is that perhaps not until I am dead and gone, an FBI victim, my giant work of art unsung, that you will finally get the message on video tape. Tsk. By then I expect you will have lost this great planet as a place to live in harmony for many hundreds of years.

I have a viable solution to all of it, but you must allow me to speak! Deny that God given Right and you will pay the price.

Years ago I met Walter Cronkite. A few minutes later he introduced me to David Brinkley. Years later Brinkley began one of his Sunday Morning programs in New Hampshire 1988 talking about me. Peter Jennings treated me fairly in 1996. Sadly, except for Walter, these honest reporters are gone. They would not have been afraid or ashamed to tell it the way it was, instead of disguising or manipulating the information.

Not that I am giving up on creating the first peaceful night in five thousand years of recorded history with my spoken poem for all man kind, written down to perform on whirled wide television, for all the worlds' peoples to see, listen to and be a part of all at once. . . . soon enough the technology will be strong enough for me to pretend I am talking to all mankind all at once though my imagined world wide program won't be dusk until dawn., with every line a delicate, sensible, multi-lingual rhyme . . only three or four hours.

You might wonder where I get the authority to offer the world freedom from oppression and liberty for all mankind. I get my material from the same place Moses the Teacher got his, the Universal Character who created the universe.

I explained how God revealed His Word into my mind, in Arabic, after I sang the line from Moses as it appears inn the Old Testament. The idea was /is to get all the people in the Middle East to listen to me together, a necessity for Peace in that region.

Were this TV cable network willing to play what your reporter recorded it would be clear that I will be the next president of United States, as the people in this country, seeing only that much, would vote for me.

In 1988 I was on the ballot in New Hampshire and made a speech on New Hampshire Public Television. In that speech I happened to quote the same global warming passage mentioned above, amongst others. That 1988 speech, in three parts, is online, and in the days to come, everything that happened in New Hampshire Secretary of State Gardner's office will be at http://www.youtube.com/poetprophet

After reviewing communications law for the reporters there, and explaining my intent to seek a two hour time slot for a major speech I covered a few issues.

I explained that I wanted to add two cents onto every item that went over the counter in McDonalds, Burger King, (all the fast food chains) also Wal*Mart, K-Mart, Target, an and every supermarket in USA. That at the end of every week someone representing the counter crew would meet with management and divide the 2 cents per items by all the hours worked to add two dollars an hour tax fee cash into everyone's pay envelop with the overage going into medical savings accounts that stay with the worker regardless where they go. This would enrich 25-30 million hourly wage not-so-rich folks with $344 extra dollars a month and save a couple million houses from foreclosure, besides keeping the economy strong and recession proof.

Yep, it is a redistribution of wealth, taking the throwaway pennies off the pavement and giving them to the working not-so-rich in the form of a voluntary gratuity that the customer can refuse to pay.
I suspect those 25 million people will vote for me. All I have to do between now and the election is reach them.

I then proceeded to carefully explain how I was going to, in the short term, provide medical coverage for 47 million people without, and also stated the long term solution. That took less than 90 seconds.

When commentators talk about Hillary's program, or Barack Obama's program, we never hear the program, only about it. I tell exactly what I am going to do and how I am going to do it in plainly understood language.

To those who control what people get to see and read, I am a piece of garbage, the dirt beneath their feet, but you desperately need my solutions, because without them many more lives and the nation's treasure will be lost.

After I did a couple major domestic issues with innovative solutions I said I had a program for Peace in the Middle East, that my program involved a satellite playing my speech live over there (with all the American people behind me, over here. Not diplomats carrying on a baloney Peace process for thirty unsuccessful years, rather people to people.

I explained I would sing the (line given to the Hebrew nation by Moses the Teacher) Hebrew melody 12 times, and when every set of eyeballs in the whole Middle east was glued to their television sets. . . I would settle everything, and I proceeded to lay out the Peace, pointing out that everything that had happened there for the last 30-40 years was foretold in my Television Scripture.

What that peace consists of MSNBC has on tape. So do I. I had a film crew in the room myself. As soon as I get it onto my poetprophet page on youtube, I will send out 75 million emails inviting people to see what you people treat as just so much garbage from a piece of garbage. For the record, it was J. Edgarina Hoover who coined the phrase "fringe candidate" because in 1972 my mother was a write-in candidate and I wore an under garment Tallis with the fringe showing.

Of course I also have words for all the Iranian people, too, so my Peace program for the Middle East would / will pull the rug from under the Iranian desire to get an atomic bomb. But I didn't get into it in Secretary Gardner's office.

I invite you to visit http://www.thekidskeyboard.com as you will be able to play with my educational software that uses my dolphins to teach the alphabet and numbers. Too bad I cannot sell this software to any school in America. (You might ask why.)

The president's father and mother know who I am, and they despise me. Go to the New York Times archive and in the search slot, type in "Jacklegs Jumping Up." See what comes up!

On the Kidskeyboard web site you will also find "New World Hors D'oeuvres, my political satire, and read to your heart's delight about Jacklegs. When a president of United States and his wife don't like you . . bad news for you.

To read my Exit Strategy Out of Iraq (that will also avoid war with Iran) visit http://www.michaelslevinson.com

Read my essay about FBI in our newsrooms and see how many of your friends you can identify. I reserve the right to copy your reporter's copy, add this commentary, and send the whole kaboodle to 100 million people via email from a server in Tel Aviv.


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