Posted on 08/09/2004 6:31:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
Yeah. I found Dr. Keyes's excuse for doing what he criticized Hillary Clinton for back in 2000 to be very lame. Obama isn't any more liberal than Clinton is. His views are very much like hers. Her actions violated his 'federalist principles' then, but not now? I think the only real difference between then and now is that he's been out of the limelight for 4 years.
Sounds like Obama is running a bit scared.
Me too. Sean Hannity has got to go. Fox News needs to just fire him now, and bring in Laura Ingraham, Monica Crowley or someone EFFECTIVE. He is such a loser.
Yeah. Shaking in his boots I bet - when he's ahead 60-something to 20-something in the polls? Sure he is.
If I had nearly 70% in the polls, I'd be scared too.
Makes Keyes look like a kook.
Agreed.
As I've stated in other threads, I wish he would just come out and give his real reason...whatever it is.
Very un-Keyesian and disturbing to try to float something this shallow.
I gasped when I read it.
Now he has given Obama the chance to look like the reasonable candidate - and it looks like Obama took it.
Like Chad said, I hope he knows what he's doing. Maybe it's the only thing he CAN do, when he's behind the eight ball like this.
I don't think Keyes will invoke Lincoln who was a blatant racist and white supremacist.
read it here
The first two black men to serve in the senate, one of whom was a former slave. Hiram Revels, a Republican, was the first, but only served one year beginning in 1870. Blanche K. Bruce, a Republican, was first to serve a full 6-year appointment from Mississippi in the same class.
It took the Democrat party until the 1940's to elect their first black person to Congress.
I spoke with AK, by phone, the day before the acceptance speech. What he said in public was what he said to me. At first he wanted to say no, then he thought about Obama's threat to the founding principles. He reflected on Lincoln's ordering of principles, and which ones were most fundamental, and slowly changed his mind. He prayed a lot over it, and reached a resolution. He is running to win, though he knows that will be hard.
Here is a link to the transcript of the full speech; I don't think it's been posted here yet.
http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/04_08_08illinois_announce.htm
Cheers,
Richard F.
He has to beat the Chicago machine and the Southern Illinois election fraud. It takes two honest votes to overcome one fraudulent vote.
I suppose you prefer more nuance....
We'll see. Personally I don't think he has a chance in hell, but I've been wrong before (I forget exactly when, but I'm SURE it's happened) so we'll see I guess...
Why is Keyes playing the race card, right out of the Chute?
Does HRC count?
So 3 of the first 4 Black Senators were Republicans. Funny how that doesn't come up in the stories.
I wouldn't have opened with this, personally, if I were Keyes. Perhaps, instead he could have used it in a debate to throw Obama off his game.
Since Dr. Keyes said that, I believe him.
I don't claim to be a purist so it's good enough for me.
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