The more we hear about Leeland Eisenberg, the disturbed man who took hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign quarters in Rochester, NH, the more amazing it is that a) he wasn't already in jail and b) that he wasn't able to get help sooner.

In an interview with the AP, Eisenberg said he wished the police had killed him. He also told the AP how he came up with the idea: "I'd see things on TV and the voice would say, 'That's it. That's how you need to do it. I remember a scene from a movie where a person had a bomb strapped to them and as soon as they came to the door the police blew them away."

Mike Underwood at the Herald reported that when Eisenberg was known as Ralph E. Woodward, Jr., he was convicted of raping a woman in Worcester in 1986 and of raping another woman at knifepoint in Leominster in 1987.

More after the jump! Image of Leeland Eisenberg from Gothamist.

According to Underwood, Eisenberg claimed that he helped police stop one inmate from killing another inmate while in jail and the fallout from that incident prompted him to change his name from Woodward to Eisenberg.

Beyond Eisenberg himself, the Weekly Dig took a step back and surveyed the responses to the crisis, which ranged from appropriate to tacky ("Drunk Day Afternoon?" That's mean!). Bostonist would like to add that Howie Carr broke out his broad brush of stereotypes and referred to Eisenberg as a "trailer park kook." Eisenberg's innocent neighbors should be angry that Carr has lumped them in with the hostage-taker.