Someone is sitting in South Carolina and laughing.  Who that is remains to be known, but it'll come out eventually.  Whoever is laughing in the person or persons involved in helping Alvin Greene win the Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina.  What makes it so odd is the fact that Greene is unemployed, had to come up with over $10,000 to get his name on the ballot, ran no apparent campaign, yet still came out the victor.  Something just isn't right.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn told CNN's Candy Crowley, "I saw the patterns in this.  I know a Democratic pattern. I know a Republican pattern and I saw in the Democratic primary elephant dung all over the place. And so I knew something was wrong in that primary. And this result tells us that.”

Greene's interviews since have also raised a lot of eyebrows.  The Root did an interview with Mr. Greene, and here's the exchange:

The Root: Your campaign was a bit unorthodox. Why didn't you invest in even simple things like signs or a Web site?

Alvin Greene: All of my campaign has been funded out of my personal money, money out of my pockets. So it's been a low-budget campaign. I haven't spent too much money. I just kept a simple, ordinary, simple, old-fashioned campaign. Nothing fancy.

The Root: What do you estimate you spent on your campaign in total?

Alvin Greene: Not much. I didn't spend much. But that's not the issue. The issue is getting South Carolina back to work, getting our economy and state back to work, and our country.

(and, later)

The Root: Including the $10,400 filing fee to become a candidate, would you say you spent less than $12,000 on your campaign?

Alvin Greene: A whole lot less.

The entire situation doesn't make a lot of sense, and hopefully the truth of the matter will come out soon.  It is just beyond puzzling that in today's world a man, that doesn't seem to know what's going on, wins on this big of a stage.