I’m not pitting him. I just feel sorry for him. Seriously. He’s so obviously a fish out of water. He can barely read the words on the page. He’s probably a nice guy, and for some reason decided to put his name on the ballot. He probably thought that would be the end of it. Maybe he did it after losing a bet. But this guy has got to be saved from further humiliation. I find it truly sad. It’s one of the most painful things—in an uncomfortable sort of way—that I’ve ever watched.
Yes, he is a giant retard who somehow, amazingly managed to slip through the cracks. No one can quite understand how he became the Senatorial candidate for the Democratic party in S Carolina. It is a very bizarre thing.
ETA: Is this going to be the new right wing talking point?
Mmmmm…it’s not terrible. I mean, it’s not as if he wrote that speech himself so at least it has a polished feel about it. It was a textbook political speech. I wouldn’t have been surprised if he broke in with "My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
What’s sad is that, because it’s obvious this speech wasn’t written by him, it also seems likely that, up until a few weeks ago, he’s probably never seriously considered any of the ideas or problems he brought up in the speech. And that’s the terrible part. He won’t bring any change to South Carolina. If he’s elected, he’ll do and say and vote exactly as his recently appointed handlers want him to.
I was flummoxed that he actually read it well–better than some experienced pols, (W comes to mind). But you can tell he’s reading and then he… talks. I feel bad for him, sure, but I’m hoping this shows people how broken our political process is. It is a bit like watching a toddler roam on the freeway. Not good.
He lost a bet for more than ten thousand dollars? Because that’s what it costs to get on the Senate ballot in South Carolina. Totally cleaned out his bank account.
Frankly, I’ve been enjoying it. Action figures, man! If he’s going to embarrass the state, at least he can be entertaining about it.
He’s extremely unlikely to get elected, 0% chance according to fivethirtyeight.com, which aggregates polls. Even a “real” Dem candidate wouldn’t have very much chance of beating the current popular GOP incumbent, an unemployed candidate with sexual harassement charges pending isn’t going to get even close to close.
I presume the local Dem party hired someone to help him write speeches just to keep some control over him so he doesn’t do too much damage. I doubt they’ve even bothered to considere what they’d do if he actually won.
Southcarolina Law Enforcement Division.
I really don’t see why people are convinced the money is not his. A person who was in the service that long, with no dependants, and who lives on the cheap, could certainly save up ten grand.
Because they don’t believe that a slow speaking black man can have that kind of money! Lawdy, don’t you know he should have done spent all that scratch on ho’s an foties while in the Army?
God help that a black man in a state full of racists :rolleyes: should be responsible with his money, and go out and actually do what so many people talk about doing. Oh yeah, he’s an idiot all right.
Yeah, except that most serious grassroots contenders for an office go out and, you know, campaign after turning in that filing fee and before the primaries. Last I read anything about it (not being a resident of the state, it’s slipped off my radar), he hadn’t given a single speech, sent no E-mails, had no campaign website, and had made zero appearances. Meanwhile, queries of Democratic voters turned up responses like “he was the first on the ballot” and “his name reminded me of that singer.”*
So no, I don’t think that because he’s a poor black guy he would have spent the whole wad on smack or malt liquor or whatever. :rolleyes: I think an unemployed veteran who lays down $10K of his hard-saved money should logically be following up on that by hitting the proverbial/literal streets to spread the message that he’s a good candidate. And it bowls me over not only that he didn’t (again, apparently) do that, but that he also won.
Hey, idiots? I don’t care how likely the Republican will be to win, don’t be such complete morons when voting in primaries. I live in a heavily Republican district where local Republican wins are guaranteed 99% of the time, and I still do my goddamned research. Christ on a pogostick.
Huh? They don’t need a talking point. Greene is going up against one of the Teabaggers In Chief, and he’s doing it in South Carolina. The guy would get his clock cleaned if he was an excellent candidate. Which he isn’t. Not by a long shot.