That’s not going to win Keyes a lot of friends around here, even if it is a genuine attempt to clear the air. Outsiders need to understand that only Chicagoans can make derogatory remarks about the mayor. We know he’s not perfect. But when we look around the country we don’t see any outsider doing any better. Even the prestigious, but far away, British magazine the Economist recently called Daley America’s best mayor.
The Republicans seem to think we need some kind of outside trusteeship here. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald couldn’t find a lawyer he considered competent (or honest?) enough in our whole state to make U.S. attorney.
If they keep this up, it’s going to hurt our self-esteem.
You could get a complex.
Raising the question, is Alan Keyes suggesting the Mayor is a smelly toad?
Keyes was interviewed on a local radio station this morning (he’ll be in town for Republican Day at the state fair). The final question of the interview was basically: “You talk about changing the tone of campaigning. Do you have anything positive to say about your opponent, Barack Obama, in this race?” His reply: “Based on accounts I’ve read about his book on his childhood, he’s a great fiction writer.”
Talk about a toad.
Come on now. He said ‘fastidiously’ so earnestly, you almost felt like he honestly believed what he was talking about.
That Alan Keyes. *Such* a vocabulary.
No. Keyes was suggesting that Oprah is a smelly toad.