[dpwiener]

I have heard Alan Keyes called a carpetbagger because he is from Maryland. But I have not heard Obama called a carpet bagger and this confuses me. Obama was not born in Illinois, he was born in Hawaii. I bet Alan Keyes was born closer to Illinois.

That is an incredibly pathetic argument. You think the "carpetbagger" pejorative should be based on where a person was born? So then I guess you consider that George Bush (born in Connecticut) was a carpetbagging governor of Texas?

Alan Keyes told Fox News back in 2000 "I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it."

I personally don't have a big problem with "carpetbagging". It's up to the people of a particular state to decide whether they want to elect a newcomer, and whether that newcomer's candidacy represents undesirable personal opportunism or not.

But the fact remains that Keyes is just as much a carpetbagger as Hillary was. Keyes attacked Hillary for coming into a state she didn't even live in and suddenly running for Senate, and now Keyes is doing exactly the same thing in Illinois. Keys found it politically expedient to try to hang the "carpetbagger" label on Hillary, and said he would not imitate such an action. Now Keyes is busy spinning and rationalizing about his double standard, and trying to explain why his previous stance against carpetbagging is inoperable with respect to his own present actions.

Keyes is a hypocrite and a carpetbagger. And the hypocrite part is by far the worst.

[1smallVoice]

Ok Einstein,

Answer this question:

Who is more of a carpetbagger, a Muslim 'son of African slave owners' raised in Indonesia and Hawaii and educated on the East Coast or a Catholic 'son of slaves' raised in Maryland?

Obama has spent about 12 years teaching law in Chicago, that does not mean he can represent an Illinois farmer in a Republican Senate.

[1smallVoice]

OK, Keyes still has much more in common with me than Obama. Since I live in Illinois I will vote for him and do it proudly. I want someone who speaks for me and will help Bush eliminate abortion, Keyes will do it, Obama will not.

I can live with that and when I see God face to face explain why I voted for a carpetbagger who opposed killing babies. Explain to me again why I am wrong.

[1smallVoice]

Ok, Keyes is a hippocrite who wants to protect the unborn, what a terrible choice. I think I can live with him.

[Godebert]

" Keyes is a hypocrite and a carpetbagger. And the hypocrite part is by far the worst."

So if you lived in Illinois....who would you vote for?