Kooks

clipped from pajamasmedia.com “Anyone who is going to run for president has to be weird,” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. I think there’s something to this, and here’s an excerpt from a post on the subject that I made back in September of 2001: But if Kaus is right, our system actually selects for people who love the job. And since, as most people (perhaps even Kaus) would agree, being President is a job no sane person could really love for eight years then what does that say about our Presidential selection system? Is it selecting for kooks? Certainly a lot of our Presidents have been, er, mentally less than admirable: Kennedy, with his risk-taking and narcissism, LBJ with his megalomania, bullying and, well, LBJ-ness, Nixon with his paranoia, depression and obsessive-compulsiveness, Clinton with his narcissism, sexual compulsiveness, and compulsive lying.

Just another angle on: Anyone smart enough to be President is smart enough not to be President.

Any more questions about the (in)sanity of the electorate for not figuring this out? Yes that's right, President's ARE representative after all.