Keith Olbermann Interviews Alvin Greene

Run time: 07:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnTYPZOmK0   Posted on YouTube: June 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: FixedNewsChannel Views on YouTube: 7   Posted on DU: June 11, 2010 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 2758

 
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On a side note....

Greene's problems

1) When the court appointed Greene a public defender for the November felony computer porn charge apparently he stated that he didn't have any money, but then he came up with the $10,400 filing fee in March 2010 which he now stated in many interviews 'is money he saved up in the military'.

2) He has never filed any paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.

Note (from TPM):

.... candidates are required to file a statement of candidacy .... within 15 days of spending more than $5,000 on a campaign. Greene did pay a $10,400 filing fee with the state Democratic party -- but Hilland says that filing fee does not apply toward the $5,000 registration.

3) He has not filed with the Secretary of the Senate, according to its Washington, D.C. office.

p.s. Tomorrow, Friday, is the day that SC is supposed to certify the election results, wonder what's going to happen. If Greene drops out then Rawls will automatically be certified as the democratic nominee.

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Also:

It seems like Greene really is a democrat and there's no big conspiracy. If any thing happened at all then it was probably a mess up with the voting machines.


Here's a link to a REALLY GOOD article with quotes from folks about Greene's town:
http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861006100935349

Below is an excerpt of one of the interesting things in the article:

As the small crowd of family and friends dispersed an elderly neighbor beckoned for a reporter to come back behind his truck. He was shaking his head.

"He ain't wrapped tight," the man said gesturing toward Greene's house. He said he hadn't voted for Greene and couldn't believe what had happened.

"I ain't know how the hell he got all them damn votes, though," he said. "He got a pile of damn votes."

The man looked back at Greene's house with a twisted smile on his face. "I don't understand that," he said. "All them damn votes he had."

The man paused and shook his head slowly as the dying sunlight filtered through the trees.

"Something ain't right," he said.

I like that Clyburn is making noise now, but where were SC Dems on this before the primary? Talk about asleep at the wheel...

But, beyond that, this gentleman can't be any worse than most of America's crazy uncles for hire.

This is what is called a 'Put Up'. SC is open for anyone Republican or Democrat to vote for either party.
I think Repubs 'put up' this candidate to insure Demint is reelected.
Repubs voted in the Democratic primary for this man knowing he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning.
They are also laughing at African Americans for voting for him. The powerful in South Carolina are as racist as the day is long.
I know this for a fact. My family goes back generations in that state when cotton was king and slave and child labor was the norm.
Old money still feeds the powerful there that profited from the back breaking work of slaves while non union wages for poor whites helped to build their mansions in Hilton Head.

Strom Thurman used his black maid for sexual gratification. He is known in SC as Sperm Thurman.

Something smells big time here.

I could barely sit through that, 10 sec between question and answer..that was just not right, i mean come on, im not the one for conspiracy theories but honestly are people in south carolina that dumb to nominate that nonsense?

who's fault. the gnews media or the voters in that state.

There's several acts of fraud being perpetrated here. I doubt this will help the Democrats win any new seats, but quite a few Republican players are going to lose their careers over this. Someone rigged the system. The idea in these things isn't to get the patsy nominated. The point is to ratfuck the Democrats and make them expend resources cleaning up the mess. That way they'd look bumpkinish in the fall. Instead, when it all comes to light, the Republicans are gonna get tarred here. There'll be fines, not jail time when this is all over. Plus a lot of consultants are gonna lose million dollar contracts and become personae non grata for a decade in SC politics.

I don't think tea baggers can pull off this big a fubar. But whatever Republican activists have been getting the baggers & birthers riled up and pulling their stings did bankroll this little travesty. Of course the Democrats probably contributed to the idiocy by actually nominating the patsy. The lack of Democratic organization in the state has to carry half the responsibility.

Sharpening the tools for Palin's run?

His eyes and demeanor had a kind of MKULTRA tinge.

Makes Sarah Palin look brilliant. At least she can speak... :shrug: x(

any topic will do.

:rofl:

He doesn't sound like he's smart enough to preside over a rally or any campaign event and inspire people to vote for him.

I agree with Clyburn. Something about this whole thing doesn't pass the smell test.

Racial voting is likely why the Rs choose him as their plant in this contest.

he should start at Governor of Alaska.

I watched the interview and now I understand what it means when somebody says it was like watching a train wreck. There is something very wrong with this man and I haven't a clue how this guy won the primary. Then there is the legitimate issue of the filing fees and the fact that he doesn't have two nickels to rub together. This thing is going to grow legs.

of course, Republicans will deny deny deny....but I'd like to see a certain Karl Rove and Senator DeMint under indictment by November.

That would look GREAT.... and SC would elect THIS guy... and we could arrange for him to step down for "health" reasons by January, and have a special election to replace him...by then Jim and Karl Rove will be in jail.

Oh how I dream we had a working democracy with a swift system of justice in SC!!!

Republicans may have sabotaged the Democratic primary, but it seems like it was done legally. This is a risk when you have open primaries. In any case, this Alvin Greene, despite seeming a bit dim, at least doesn't insult my intelligence by loading his talk with buzzwords and filler about "putting people first" or whatever cliche to that effect is chosen this particular year. He speaks plainly and directly.

Until Obama kicks out Geithner and demands some accountability over the Goldmine Sachs-led plutocracy, the Democratic Party deserves whatever it gets.

I doubt LBJ would approve, either.

But then there were rumors he "fixed" a few himself.

You vote for a neoliberal platform, you get neoliberalism. You vote for a progressive platform, you still get neoliberalism. All done according to the "rule of law", just like this. And I don't think it's far fetched that he legitimately won the votes. The media was hyping him up as an "unemployed veteran", some sort of ordinary Joe novelty candidate. Combine that with the fact that Republicans voted for him, and you get this result. The South Carolina Democratic Party seems to have buyer's regret, but that's too bad. They should've thought of that beforehand.

It's an embarrassment. But do I care? No; not really.

the manifold explanations for his getting that many votes,and you can rest assured there will be manifold explanations, not one of which will even hint that electronic voting machines might be involved. Here are some potential "explanations":

1. Blacks don't pay attention to who they're voting for as long as the candidate is black
2. demographics (anything you can possibly imagine here)
3. a huge anti-incumbent turn-out,
4. a ground swell of support for tea-bagger ideology
5. make up anything you want and probably some talking head will espouse it, particularly somebody on Fixed News

That was horrifically painful to watch.

:rofl: :yourock:

away scott free. I think Greene really, really thinks he won.

The man obviously has some mental deficiency issues and needs assistance. Instead, some sick bastard OBVIOUSLY used this man's handicap in a disgusting attempt to undermine any efforts at restoring our country to prosperity. Just like Trig, this man is an obvious GOP prop tool.

THIS really needs to be investigated BIG TIME!

This is some sort of sick prank.

The thing is, though, half the Republicans probably think this guy is just as smart as they are, and don't notice that he has an impairment. Hmmm

LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4429223

CREW: Greene violated federal election law and regulations by failing to file mandatory disclosure reports prior to the election.