Posted on 02/20/2009 11:45:38 AM PST by EternalVigilance
"Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist." - Alan Keyes
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This is no longer a debate. This is political WAAAAAAR!
There’s no politician who’s perfect but compared to what I’ve seen in Washington, he’d be better than most.
Keyes/Palin 2012?
Didn't happen the last time they debated.
LOL. Alan Keyes? In contact with reality? LOL.
If we can’t win at the ballot box because we feel strongly it has been rigged, then for the first time in 150 years people will start forcibly rising up. Rick Santelli was just the squirt gun yesterday. We could have a “tea party” or enmasse withhold tax payments, etc.
How did you find time away from defending Obama to post here?
Only a liberal could believe that Obama won any of the debates.
What were those election results, again?
Someone will have to write a history of the Obammunist takeover of the United States. It will have to cover the NEA's dumbing down of the electorate, the social engineering of mortgages leading to the current economic crisis, and the mainstream media's softball treatment of their candidate. Gramsci anyone?
He's a brilliant man. He just comes across weird. Sort of like Steve Forbes, only without the dorkiness.
The last time he ran for the GOP Presidential ticket I voted for him, and I will never regret it. He has been right from day one.
The greatest ones are always seemingly misunderstood and under-appreciated.
Ditto that!
I’m of the opinion that Commandante Zero isn’t different from the general run of politicians...and men - he’ll either grow under pressure or collapse like a cardboard suitcase.
The clock is ticking, I agree.
So, you’re saying that you think Obama won any of the debates?
Steve Forbes is a dork?
He also tends to speak calmly in analytical presentations, not yelling and pounding a podium. A Keyes-Forbes debate would be interesting though.
MODERATOR: Would you please assess where the U.S. stands diplomatically? Do we have a bad reputation now?
OBAMA: Well, I think that this administration has not been very good at what's been called the exercise of "soft power." You know, all of us recognize and reserve the right of the United States to exercise its military power in the national interest and for our national security--but we also have to recognize that a lot of our power comes from our ideals, our belief in freedom, our belief in democracy, our belief in the ability to work things through in a manner that comports with whatever frameworks of international law that have been shaped. And I think that, unfortunately, this administration has tended to be dismissive of any international efforts--and in his campaign, I think you witness it with a general disdain for, quote unquote, "globalism." In some cases, this is just a function of us trying to have conversations with our allies so that we can move more effectively.
KEYES: See, I think the great problem is that you cannot give a soft response to a hard threat. It would be kind of like trying to meet a bayonet with a spaghetti noodle. And it's not going to help the people of this country to survive.
After 9-11, we were faced with a hard threat. We had lost thousands of people, and we had to move aggressively. The belief that Afghanistan was enough is a belief based on a failure to understand the global infrastructure of terror--so that you deal with the threat that has hit you instead of with the threats that will hit you later if you neglect to preemptively move against their bases of support.
It is precisely in order to create a situation in which maybe people who would be otherwise supportive of this bloodthirsty threat will respond a little better to your overtures that you move with decision against regimes like the Iraqi regime that had shown itself disposed to support terror, to fund terror, to be part gleefully of the global infrastructure of terror--and to act against them before they have the opportunity to act against you.
So many Americans "fell in love" with simply the fire of excitement he created. They didn't see the reality of the man at all. It is reminds me of a line from a song: "When your heart's on fire...smoke gets in your eyes..."
Obama won the election against Keyes with, if I remember correctly, almost 75% of the vote. My point is that, however you and I would score the debate, Keyes is not someone who connects with voters.
He connects with real folks just fine. I'm thinking you don't know much about the power of the media filter to distort everything.
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