MIKE GRAVEL

Mike Gravel is a US senator. Mike Gravel is a presidential candidate. Mike Gravel is a little odd. Mike Gravel should win. Mike Gravel has made a campaign video.

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This video released by Mike Gravel's election campaign, shows him doing nothing but staring into the camera for a solid minute, motionless, as if peering into the viewer's very soul. He then throws a rock in a pond and walks off into the distance.

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Exciting, huh? We asked Mike Gravel's press secretary, Alex Colvin, what the point of it is. And Colvin tells us that there's no single, intrinsic point here at all.

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Colvin's answer: "Where he's coming from is that, it's less about him coming across with a heavy political message in this video, as much as it is the message of the impression the viewer will have, looking at him."According to Colvin, however, one element of this post-modern work does have a definite message: The part where Gravel picks up the rock and throws it into the pond. Colvin says this has "to do with the work with the campaign, the ripple effect of his campaign, his work as a politican and kind of the feedback we've got in South Carolina, in communities all across the country. Our message is rippling across the country. Then he walks off, we go on."

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After reading the whole story I now think it might be the press secretary Alex Colvin who's the nutter, but then Mike did take his advice to do the video. Mike rocks in my book.

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Could you imagine if he did become president...

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An aide rushes into the oval office "Mr President, the United States is under nuclear attack, what should we do sir?"

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and his response was this...........