Call It A Comeback
I have some doubts that Kelly will even make the rounds on television, but if she does, I hope she receives the Malkin Treatment (previously known as the Kucinich Treatment when Tweety went off on him). Otherwise–this is a Kelly free zone.
Oh my (Via The Truth About Keyes)
Apparently, somebody on the panel–it might have been him–actually enjoined folks that we should take a look at South American countries, where the heads of state aren’t even seen to go to church in public.
I wonder if he looks at what goes on in a lot of those countries. Maybe if they started going to church, the governments wouldn’t change so often. Maybe if they started respecting God, there wouldn’t be so many times when the military goes out of control and starts brutalizing the population, and so forth and so on. You never know.
That’s remarkably stupid. Remarkably.
1) Leaders are very Catholic in the region generally–though they don’t wear it on their sleeve.
2) The Catholic Church in Latin America is very tied into both conservative and radical politics so, umm…, Mr. Keyes might want to check in with the Pope on this one.
3) Mr. Keyes was a member of the Reagan administration’s foreign policy team, that helped to fund the right wing death squads that often targeted religious folks in Latin America–like nuns who were declared lesbians as if that had anything to do with their slaughter.
Austin Mayor has been keeping up on the other guy running for Senate in Illinois.
First, I missed his stop in East Saint Louis:
Earlier, speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of supporters in East St. Louis, Obama was more reflective. After the convention, he said, he visited the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where a bomb exploded on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four young black girls. The experience had helped him put his status as a rising star in perspective, he said.
“It’s easy to get swept up in the hoopla, to read your name in the papers and to see yourself on TV,” he said. “And all of that is fun. But standing in that church in Birmingham, Ala., I realized and I reminded myself that the reason you get into public service is not for yourself. It’s not about your family. It’s not about your vanity. It’s not about your ambition. If you want to be first, you have to be first in service.”
In Galesburg talking to workers being outsourced:
U.S. Senate Candidate Barack Obama says the struggle of workers is always on his mind.
“How do I make sure a situation like what’s happening in Galesburg does not happen again? How can I make sure ordinary folks get a decent shot at life?? says U.S. Senate Candidate Barack Obama to hundreds of cheering Galesburg residents.
A lengthy excerpt from the Quad City Times
Q:: On the topic of jobs, when you were in Rock Island recently, you noted both the Maytag (Galesburg) and Case (East Moline) factories were closing. What do you do to keep corporations in America in this global marketplace?
A: I don?t think there are quick and easy solutions. Some of these have to do with broader global trends and technology, but there are some things our government can do to encourage jobs growth and discourage outsourcing.
Number one, we can change our tax code to provide incentives for jobs to stay here at home. Right now we have a tax code that is backwards on that issue.
We can make sure our trade agreements are properly enforced so that when China devalues its currency by 40 percent, we?re bringing them before the World Trade Organization and making sure that we have an even playing field.
The third thing is investing in infrastructure that?s going to keep us competitive ? bricks and mortar, bridges, roads, broadband lines ? and also human capital, making sure we continue to have a first-class education system.
Interestingly, his answer to this isn’t as simple as many would make it out to be. Nor as content free.
Larry Sabato’s most recent take on Keyes:
September 7, 2004 Update:
It is no longer worth pretending that this is even a competitive contest. Alan Keyes’s recent attack on Vice President Cheney’s lesbian daughter as a “selfish hedonist” has made Keyes persona non grata, even among many Republicans. We are changing the outlook on this Senate seat to solid Democratic, and we would not be surprised to see Barak Obama hit 70 percent of the vote. The Illinois GOP made a terrible mistake in plucking Keyes from Maryland for this contest, and it has set the party back years.
Watching Schillestrom is like watching paint dry, but this is probably the most animated I’ve ever seen him (which isn’t very animated). A great lecture on the median voter theorem too.
The fascinating portion is at the end where he talks about reinvigorating the GOP–as if this year is going to be a disaster.
Kass is in this clip, but what is hysterical is how the TV guys jump in trying to take the attention.
Thompson has the best bit though. (Hollinger? What’s that?)
For the Record: 1 mention of Bush
Finally, the good Mr. Novak points out his conflict of interest
In response to queries: My son, Alex Novak, is director of marketing for Regnery Publishing Inc., publisher of Unfit for Command. He is 36 and has been employed at Regnery for six years, since receiving his MBA from the University of Maryland. He has had no connection with my reporting about Unfit for Command, a best-selling book dealing with Kerry’s war record whose news value is obvious. I plan to continue to pursue this story as developments warrant.
Only insofar as the Keyes meltdown will help Democratic downballot races, but the emergence of Barack Obama as a power base unto himself is not good news to Madigan who likes to run the show. It gives Emil more influence over the state operation as a close ally of Obama and movement candidates are always dangerous to the machine. In the short term, it is very, very good for him as he can go to business and use his stand against The Blagorgeous to feed at the corporate trough along with the Governor and he’s probably pretty safe in maintaining seats (sorry Cross guys, but it’s a tough year)
“Somewhere, Illinois House Speaker and state Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan must be smiling.”
So much for the Keyes will keep him home theory…in fact, staying out of the news is serving Barack quite well. While he needs to cement his support through standard travels and big media events that showcase his talents, Keyes provides a giant distraction when Obama is out of the news.
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