Describe Bizarre…
link Rep. David Wu’s staff confronted him over concerns about his mental health | OregonLive.com.
The bizarre behavior of Mr. Wu has been documented by the local papers and paints a picture of someone who may not have all his wires connected. What the newspaper fails to say is whether his odd behaviour is something that is normal for him and just became apparent, or if he just only recently went Hollywood star on them.
Mr. Wu is hardly the first politician to exhibit bizarre behaviour. The donning of a tiger costume may have been a bit unusual, but hey, it’s all good, he’s just eccentric. The important thing is that he is of the correct political persuasion, so personal eccentricities can be overlooked. When you take into account the recent utterances of many of his ideological brethren, wearing a tiger outfit and yelling incoherencies hardly moves the needle on the wacko meter. According to staffers, he was loud and sometimes angry. Has anyone ever heard of Alan Grayson, thankfully now the ex congressman from Florida? The article goes on to state that he recently delivered a “belligerent and rambling 19 minute monologue” to fellow Democrats. Does the name Keith Olbermann mean anything to anyone? Finally, staffers testified that “…Wu became unpredictable and sometimes loopy, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and often not making sense …” Boy, should we list some names alphabetically?
I’m not sure exactly how they could discern that Wu was exhibiting anything other than acceptable normal behavior for that party. Incoherency, belligerence, anger? The article goes on to recount how in 2007, he accused the Bush White House of acting like “fake Klingons”, whatever that means. The best incident was in 2003, when he appeared to go catatonic before a vote. Clearly the sane response was to flee to another state and avoid the vote altogether. I’m not sure what’s happening in the Democratic party, but if they start to weed out people like David Wu, good luck fielding candidates in the next vote.
As far as David Wu is concerned, he just had the misfortune to pick the wrong profession. If he was in the entertainment business, he’d be adored, have his picture all over the gossip rags and his own TV show. There just happens to be a job opening at CBS now that Charlie Sheen has gone. That show would have had to be renamed One and Half Men, but didn’t poll well with focus groups. On the other hand, Charlie has a possible career in politics…or MSNBC.