Democratic primary rivals Jeff Greene and Kendrick Meek have caught each other in a series of half-truths and untruths, and each is trying to take full advantage of the situation.

Meek has hammered Greene for making much of his fortune off of the housing bubble. Now the AP reports that Jeff Greene’s campaign hopes to diffuse the talking point by calling on famed investor Warren Buffett:

Meek, a congressman from Miami, has been airing ads in which an announcer says, “Warren Buffett called Greene’s scheme ‘financial weapons of mass destruction.’”
The campaign called Warren’s office and later e-mailed a link to Meek’s ad to the legendary investor’s assistant, Debbie Bosanek.
Bosanek confirmed Tuesday she showed it to Buffett.
“He said, ‘I have never spoken about Jeff Greene or any of his transactions in any way,’” Bosanek said. […]
The Meek campaign said it never claimed Buffett was talking specifically about Greene, but rather speaking in general about the types of investments Greene made.

Meanwhile, Meek is trumpeting a series of incorrect statements and clarifications by Greene as to whether his yacht docked in Havana and, if so, why. From the Miami Herald:

Greene spokesman Luis Vizcaino said Tuesday that the real estate mogul’s 145-foot yacht Summerwind docked for two days in Havana’s Hemingway Marina in 2007 while awaiting repairs. In Sunday’s debate against Democratic rival Kendrick Meek, Greene said he went to Cuba on a Jewish mission.
“During the debate Jeff misspoke,’’ Vizcaino said after receiving media inquiries about the trip. “What he meant to say was that in 2007, he went on the boat from Honduras to the Bahamas, and en route the boat had a hydraulic problem…The captain said we could wait for the part at Hemingway Marina.’’
But a deckhand on that trip tells a different story. John Walenczyk said the boat traveled from Fort Lauderdale directly to Cuba and docked for about one week.
“It was their total intention to go to Cuba,’’ he said Tuesday. “We never went to Honduras, not even close. I figure it was the glamour of wanting to go to a banned country.’’

With statements like these, it’s no wonder that both Greene and Meek have been named by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to its slate of “Crooked Candidates 2010.” (Granted, Crist and Rubio also make the list, so what’s a voter to do?)