Huckabee says your civil rights aren’t violated unless you’re violently attacked
4 comments November 18th, 2008
The good reverend seems strangely unfamiliar with the history of his native South, as we see HERE.
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Defying all the odds, Alan Keyes becomes even more loony with each passing day
9 comments November 18th, 2008
Remember Alan Keyes?
He’s the guy who ran a quixotic (to put it politely) race here in Illinois against Democrat Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat back in 2004.
Keyes, who had gained some national notice when he ran for president in 1996 and 2000, was recruited for the Illinois contest by Rockford State Sen. Dave Syverson, among others, when the winner of the GOP primary had to drop out in a sex scandal.
Keyes didn’t even live in Illinois, but the Republican poohbahs seemed to figure that their own articulate black guy could fare well against Obama, so they got him to move here from Maryland.
The result was a disaster. Keyes pompously declared that his candidacy was “God’s will,” and opined that Jesus Christ wouldn’t vote for Obama. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter as “a selfish hedonist” and denounced all homosexuals, including his own daughter.
Keyes quickly became a statewide joke and ended up with only 27 percent of the vote.
When he slinked away from that humiliation, I figured we’d seen the last of Keyes. But, with hardly anybody noticing, he launched another candidacy for president in late 2007. Predictably, it came to naught.
Now Keyes is BACK IN THE NEWS, nuttier than ever. This time, he’s found common cause with the zanies who contend that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not qualified to become president.
Incidentally, HERE’s the truth about Obama’s birth.
Obama didn’t win a mandate? Nonsense!
16 comments November 18th, 2008
Barack Obama’s popular-vote margin of victory in this year’s presidential election was nearly three times as large as George W. Bush’s in 2004.
Bush claimed a mandate, and none of his fellow Republicans argued otherwise. Ah, but the GOPers are all claiming now that Obama received no mandate.
They’re wrong, as Jonathan Chait notes HERE.
Legalization of gay marriage is inevitable
1 comment November 18th, 2008
As Anna Quindlen SAYS: The world only spins forward.
Ron Paul is wearing his tinfoil hat again
3 comments November 18th, 2008
Wacko Ron Paul SAYS Barack Obama is part of the conspiracy to establish a New World Order that would sap us of our precious bodily fluids.
