I met a presidential candidate last night!

[SoxFan]

Really!

No, it wasn't Obama, Clinton, Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich, or Edwards. Ben there. Done that. Nope, I spoke to the next Leader of the Free World.

Robert Haines.



I was watching the Sox game at a local watering hole when Mr. Haines wandered in to introduce himself to the gathered assemblage. He was nattily attired in a cowboy hat and a full-length fur coat that looked like something you would wear to a Yale football game, circa 1928.

Sadly, Mr. Haines has generated some consternation in his visits to local establishments, so he was promptly removed from the premises. Sadly, I could not ask him to expound on his views conserning international trade policy or budgetary reform...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

1. His belt buckle

says all you need to know.

[SoxFan]

2. The guy's got style...

http://media.www.theclockonline.com/media/storage/paper569/news/2007/09/28/News/Robert.Haines.Visits.Psu-2997711.shtml

His platform, which could be found on business cards that were kept in a pre-Civil War era 6-shooter holster at his side, contained the solutions to two important issues that our nation is facing; immigration and the Iraq war.

Now why don't Barack and Hillary show some of that sort of personal flair?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. Here is a video of him

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=650672&fr=

He is solving all the problems... Immigration and the war...

He is Republican

He has maybe $45 invested in his campaign...

I can not find a web site for him...

[SoxFan]

4. He puts the yahoo in Yahoo

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. He's goofy...

Unconventional candidate stumps on Main Hanover
By Rebecca Cress,
Published on Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Presidential hopeful Robert Haines bellows “Bang, Osama’s dead!” as he campaigns on the sidewalk of Main Street on Monday.
He wears a black suit and a fedora. From his waist hangs a noose, knotted five times. He carries a wooden cross and you’ll often find him at the corner Wheelock and Main. This man is Manchester resident Robert Haines, and he is running for president of the United States.
Although the “conservative independent” he said he would prefer to be interviewed by a man, Haines recently agreed to a one-on-one interview, provided it was taped because he “knows the media’s dirty tricks.”
This is not Haines’ first campaign for president. He also ran in 1992, 1996 and 2004. While campaigning in Washington in October 1994, he was catapulted into the public sphere when he was one of the three men who wrestled Francisco Martin Duran to the ground after Duran’s failed attempt to assasinate former President Bill Clinton.
This remains a point of contention for Haines, who claims that Kennith Davis, one of the men who reportedly helped stop Duran, actually had very little to do with tackling the man with the semi-automatic machine gun, as reported by the New York Times.
“The New York Times is wrong,” Haines said, clarifying the issue “once and for all,” and adding that the Times most likely collaborated with Davis.
In the past, Haines said he has worked as a dorm supervisor, chair of the mathematics department and dean of students at the Texas Military Institute, an Episcopal school in San Antonio, Texas.



read the whole enchilada here: http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2007/10/meet_your_campus_crazies_dartmouths_robert_haine.html