Posted on 06/17/2010 9:45:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Alvin Greene may be the only Democratic nominee in U.S. Senate election history to walk to his father's kitchen every time his telephone rings. And it rings every five minutes or so — supporters he'll never meet, television and radio bookers hoping to juice ratings and reporters trying to figure out what Greene means for South Carolina and America's troubled democracy. "I don't have caller I.D.," Greene tells one caller. He also doesn't own a cell phone or a computer.
As recently as Memorial Day, Alvin Greene was an unemployed 32-year-old, 13-year military veteran, who had been involuntarily discharged from both the Army and the Air Force and was facing an obscenity charge for allegedly showing a teenaged stranger online pornography in a college campus computer lab (Greene has denied comment, but he is fighting the charge). What he became after winning 59% of the vote in the June 8 Democratic primary is now in dispute. To Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state's most powerful Democrat, Greene is a pod-person of unknown origin — "someone's plant." To his older brother, James Jr., Greene is nothing more than a loner with a dream of making good — "like someone coming up saying I'm going to fly to the moon." To Vic Rawl, his well-funded opponent, Greene is the possible beneficiary of an historic voter machine malfunction or, worse, a stolen election.
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He really does need to be talking to somebody about film rights.
narcissist?
He could and should play himself.
What would TIME’s story line and angle have been had this been a REPUBLICAN primary outcome???
LOL! That's Timespeak for "the guy we supported didn't win."
No, but it is fun to see the press going nutty about this. They do seem to be on edge lately. Wonder why.
What is all the hub-bub about with Alvin Greene. He is clearly as qualified to be a United States Senator as was Barack Hussein Obama. And if he is elected, he will be as qualified in two years to be President.
God Save the Nation!
When has that ever stopped the Democrats before?
Someone from SC: Was this an open primary?
The article says he voted for Obama TWICE...
“voted for Obama twice by absentee ballot and even donating to the president’s campaign. “
How the H$ll did he do that? Was he an Illinois resident? What does that mean? Time didn’t even explore it. Helppppppp meeee.....
Primary and general?
A vote for Greene is a vote against Obama.
In Obama we had a guy who didn’t simply have sterling, academic credentials, no, but also a man who oozed charm and cool.
Alas, LOOK at what it has come to..! NOTHING..!
Here instead we get a brutha who is the diametric opposite —never went to any school, and who communicates by pointing and via primitive grunts. He prolly can’t read a teleprompter, but I have the uncomfortable feeling that that might be because he can’t READ.
He’s out of central casting for Idiocracy.
I’d term it BRILLIANT, but then again he’s not acting. You can’t make this up.
As long as his political enemies keep underscoring how this man is a blow-it case outsider, he will WIN.
I LOVE THIS GUY..!!
Once in a primary and once in the general. I got a friend always brags about voting for Bush four times.
The next Nobel Prize recipient.
Maybe open primary (voter picks the party ballot at the election place), but doubtful there was a lot of GOP crossover. Remember, up-ballot was a very hotly contested Governor race on the Republican side, so I don’t think very many people abandoned that important vote to do mischief on this down-ballot item.
Especially since whoever wins the Dem slot has approximately zero chance of beating DeMint in November.
I’m sorry, but our slip into third-world corruption is absolutely...hilarious...
Once in the primary, once in Nov?
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