Want to See A Stark Raving Mad Guy Give a Speech
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If it isn’t a campaign event, it’ll run you $15,000. No word on whether there are royalties for his used napkins.
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The Economist Chimes In
Unfortunately, the Economist saved its biting humor, but offer up a serious indictment of the whole farce:
To make matters even worse for the Republicans, Mr Keyes’s numerous defects as a candidate are only magnified by the comparison with Mr Obama. Mr Obama has spent almost 20 years in Illinois?seven as a state senator?and is married to a woman from the South Side of Chicago. He won an impressive 53% of the Democratic primary vote against six strong opponents. He is optimistic where Mr Keyes preaches Sodom and Gomorrah, and moderate where Mr Keyes is intemperate. He is also a rising national star, with unrivalled support from the national party, while Mr Keyes is a serial failure.
The Republicans’ fatal mistake was to think that the best way to counter a black man was with another black man. The point about Mr Obama?as the Republicans might have realised if they had paid greater attention to his speech in Boston?is that he is a post-racial candidate. Mr Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas who was brought up by his white mother and grandparents in Hawaii and South-East Asia. He appeals just as strongly to white suburban voters as he does to blacks.
He Writes Songs
?I touch the world with hands too weak, frail as the words that I speak. I hear the sounds, dragging with pain?Nothing to gain, nothing to lose, why should I bother to choose? Mind cannot know, lips shake to spare, but when I sing with my heart you are there..?.-Alan Keyes in a self-written song, ?You Are There?
Assignment Desk: Get me this tape
He went on the Tonight Show and sang. While Bill Clinton played the sax in 1992, and John Kerry played the guitar this campaign season, those were merely cases of showing off. When Keyes went on the Tonight Show, he sang a song he wrote, expressing his own heart about issues of justice and truth. Few political leaders would make themselves so vulnerable in that venue.
The Wasted Line
Of this farce, should be picked up by Dems everywhere:
Obama said he would debate Keyes on issues of private morality, such as abortion and gay marriage, as long as they also debated issues of public morality, like Enron and companies shifting jobs overseas.
Jackson Taunts the Republicans
“He represents the party that recruited him,” Jackson told a conference call Thursday. “There are two parties and two candidates. Let’s see which party is the most committed to supporting their guy.”
Jackson said Bush challenged black Democrats to leverage their vote by supporting Republicans when he addressed the National Urban League in Detroit. He said the president now has the opportunity to campaign for a black Republican in Illinois.
“Mr. Keyes should be the standard-bearer for the Republican Party,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity for Republicans to show their commitment to expanding their base and competing for the vote.”
Calling Karl!
Louisiana Updates
Rodney Alexander’s cheap attempt to avoid a challenger just got funnier with this. I mean, never write the attack ads for your opponents.
Better yet, the DCCC wants its money back. I hear the Steelworkers took back $5000 too.
Changing parties happens. Soon, we’ll be seeing more in the suburbs and in the Northeast as reallignment rolls along, but doing it where you take money and specifically try and avoid a challenger is slimy.
Cegelis – Hyde Debate?
Cegelis has accepted an invitation from the AAUW. Will Hyde? It’s not like she has attacked his health….
Wow II–First I Thought Jeff Was Just Ranting
But he has a very good point about the Resolution to Fill a Vacancy in Nomination form. It is signed on notarized on August 4th which isn’t too surprising given the Committee and Keyes pretty much were using the time for a press work up, but the address is filled in. Errr….how did that happen? If he was not officially living there this is a real problem.
Republicans Have Parkinsons Too
While no one expected Andrea Zinga to get close to the uber gerrymandered 17th, she has shown herself to have no shame in a losing effort.
“People who are on the medications he is on may have trouble with judgment, which can be worsened by excitement or stress,” she said in an interview. “It concerns me and I think voters should be aware of it.”
Even nastier:
Zinga, for her part, makes a point of reminding voters that Evans would have medical insurance coverage, even if he were voted out of office.
“I don’t think they want to throw someone out, just because he’s had the (misfortune) of being sick,” she said. “It’s important to tell them that he’ll be cared for.”
My Republican Uncle In McLean Just Choked
How is gay marriage a threat to traditional marriage? No procreation- if you can’t “in principle” procreate you can’t get married. He carves it in such a way that infertile people can still get married- that’s “incidental”.
He and my aunt have been married for nearly 35 years and chose not to have kids for a variety of reasons. My uncle was already voting against Lee Newcom in McLean County and I think we can add the Senate race to it too. I may post his reaction when I talk to him over the weekend.