Why didn’t Bob Graham’s campaign pick up steam in the 04’ Dem. primary?

[Old Man Willow]

You haven't heard of the scandal about the diaries?

It became known that he had a habit of writing down summaries of everything he did on a given day and keeping the hundreds of notebooks that had accumulated over the years. They weren't really "diaries" in a reflective sense - it was often mundane things like what meals he ate, mundane errands he did, etc.

But the press decided this was an incredibly weird, creepy thing to do and he became cast as a quixotic goofball.

Bob Graham voted against the 2002 Iraq resolution, so our pro-war neolib media decided to destroy him with this fake scandal, the same way they destroyed Dean with the "Dean scream".

[Old Man Willow]

Stupidly, Democrats did not recognize that he was the strongest candidate.

But he didn't vote for the Iraq war, which means we wouldn't have gotten gems like John Kerry saying it was the "wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time" and then saying his only problem with it was only our troops were dying because we didn't drag enough of our allies into it.