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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:43 PM
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I feel really bad for Alvin Greene. He looked so scared in that Olberman interview.
I have to agree with the Senate Whip. Something very dirty is going on in SC. Poor Alvin apparently got caught up in in too.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:50 PM
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1. I don't think he looked scared
but he did look clueless. It's hard not to see the possibility that something fishy is going on here.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:57 PM
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2. Maybe he's realizing just how deep he's in a mess given how this story is going national
If the GOP compensated him for a charade he'll at least have to live it down. He said he's a lifetime Dem which could be easy enough to verify.

But if he threatens to name names he could be in some danger.
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ProgressiveVictory Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:39 PM
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15. Are the GOP smart enough to do that?
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Stardust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:57 PM
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3. With the delay of Olbermann's feed and his off-camera attorney's
coaching, it made him appear less, um, "quick" than he probably is. I felt bad for him, too.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 11:17 PM
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8. Check the Mother Jones article
In the comments, supervisors of his from the Air Force and the Army both said he was incompetent. Idiocracy really was a documentary, you know.
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 02:39 PM
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12. EVERY interview has a signal delay if it is national. Politicians need to know that.
If he doesn't it is HIS fault.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:00 PM
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4. He's clearly being used.
Edited on Thu Jun-10-10 10:00 PM by backscatter712
He has absolutely zero clue as to what's going on - the GOP thugs who decided to use him as a plant to fuck with the Democrats just needed any warm body that could be manipulated, and by sheer luck of the draw, he was picked.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:04 PM
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5. I HOPE and investigation will reveal that the DiMint crowd was behind
this fraud! I want so much to see DiMint go down!!!! He's such an arrogant AH!
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angrycarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:06 PM
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6. he looked defensive and guilty.
he looked more like football player answering charges of doping than a guy that just won an election.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:41 PM
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16. Personally I thought he looked like he would cry... KO was not throwing rockets in that interview
with one exception
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 11:16 PM
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7. Poor Alvin should step down.
I bet he's being paid quite well for his time.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 11:33 PM
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9. I haven't seen anyone look that clueless and stymied
since Bush on 9/11, when he realized he might never find out what happened to the pet goat.
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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 02:37 PM
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10. I think he is a patsy, not a plant.
I think he was set up or fell into someone else's plans, and not that he was part of the planning himself. He just seems so simple and overwhelmed.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 02:39 PM
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11. I don't feel sorry for him. He was likely paid well.
:)
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 02:40 PM
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13. Buy the ticket, take the ride. n/t
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onpatrol98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:36 PM
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14. Degree from USC
This guy did say he had a bachelor's degree from USC. He can't be all "that" slow.

And, exactly WHEN do we decide ... oops ... the wrong person got the nomination... step down so the REAL CANDIDATE can now take his rightful place.

I think South Carolina needs to step back and think a few minutes before it ticks off a large percentage of those "minority" votes that it takes for granted year after year. This thing could start smelling like bullying or worse.

Looks odd...yep...stinks...yep...but this is tricky territory. I don't know how the heck he won...but he won.

If we're going to start (as a party) micromanaging every time a candidate deemed less than worthy pulls off a victory from the approved choice, I know a few Hillary voters ready to take on that challenge.

Unless something stinky really did happen AND Greene confesses...I think this story becomes a "move along, folks...nothing to see here, moment...

I'd love to hear what the local barber & beauty shop talk is...in Greene's part of town AFTER the media gets through driving home how unacceptable this nominee is for the democratic party day after day.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:42 PM
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17. See how crazy the powers that be get when someone who isn't in the club
beats them at their own game? Even if he is a plant, he won. And that's what's freaking people out. Same thing happened when Jesse Ventura beat the machine in Minnesota.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:51 PM
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19. Actually, I'm more worried about his mental facilities than the fact he is a D or that he won If ...
someone put him in this position, and he does have full knowledge of what is going on, that is a horrific abuse of this man.
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:48 PM
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18. This is a very badly done Lee Atwater trick.
He was always up to some evil skulduggery. However, he knew how to do it with enough credibility to be somewhat believable.

They played the Haley affairs very badly also. You don't try to bluff like that with no proof. She may have had them, but they never proved it and it just made people mad.

Remember, he helped elect GHWB.
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:54 PM
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20. I was waiting for the "what are your positions on" question
from Keith. I was disapointed to say the least that it wasn't mentioned.
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:58 PM
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21. maybe he didn't want to look like he was beating up on him unnecessarily
The guy was so obviously and utterly clueless. Any more rigorous questioning and it would have looked like a mugging.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 04:58 PM
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22. Hardly matters

Ain't hardy any politician in SC worth spit. They all seem to be Chamber of Commerce drones, why vote for a fake when you can get the real thing.

And that might be said of any state.
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