Alan Keyes goes completely off the deep end
February 21st, 2009 at 01:07pm Pat Cunningham
Remember Alan Keyes?
He’s the guy who ran a quixotic (to put it politely) race here in Illinois against 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.
Since then, Keyes has popped up every once in a while to make a fool of himself, but never more so than he did this week in a RAVING INTERVIEW at an anti-abortion fundraiser in Nebraska.
Keyes said President Obama is “a radical communist” and a “usurper occupying the office without constitutional warrant.” He warned that with Obama in power, the United States will fall into “civil war” and “is going to cease to exist.”
Whoa! Somebody throw a net over this guy.
UPDATE: Applesauce commenter hokumboy passes along a video of Keyes’ intemperate remarks, which I neglected to do:
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1. echo4charlie | February 21st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
“Goes off the deep end” ?
This guy cannonballed off of the deep end and sunk to the bottom a long, long time ago.
2. hokumboy | February 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Ah yes, “Darling Dave”.
Pay at the pump.
Cheap Trick Day.
Alan Keyes.
And……………..
Well, I guess that’s all.
3. hokumboy | February 21st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Alan’s brought “Wacko” to an art form.
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdCNodGrA8
4. Frankie | February 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Say what you will, but many people in this nation view Alan Keyes to be a true Patriot. Alan Keyes is a man that all children, of all races, should aspire to emulate.
5. Pat Cunningham | February 21st, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Frankie: The guy disowned his own daughter. Yeah, he’s a real role model.
6. Thomas Williams | February 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
The problem with most of the public is that they are fed ideas and images through the mainstream media repeatedly until the media’s agenda is accepted and we fall for it hook line and sinker.
We are so caught up in the notion that the television has the only truth and that anyone else with an opinion (Allen Keyes) is circumcised as credible source information.
I think that we need to be a little more broad minded at the idea that the media and all of its resources will very seldom report the real story and will poor information into those who bow to the tube in a nightly catatonic state and believe they are receiving the truth about America and the world condition.
It is about time for Americans to turn off the television and start researching the truth on their own instead of being spoon fed and burped by ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX news, like little babies.
I doubt that there are enough truth seekers in America like Allen Keyes that would dare take the time to search out the truth and reject the common notion that the mainstream media presents. It is a sad sad day in the United States when we start ripping apart opinions made about current and past political wizardry and lay down their minds, in submission to the media.
Abortion is wrong. Abortion is the murder of innocent unborn children. To think that a great portion of America would rather save the whale or save the polar bear but turns it is face from those innocent lives being destroyed in the mother’s womb. Obama supports abortion and every person who voted for him will have a hand in every abortion performed during his term. If you support him, you support killing innocent lives. If you do not care, then your mind is seared and you no longer can see the truth.
I heard someone say that if God does not judge America, He needs to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah…
It is time to seeking for the truth and standing for truth…
7. Pat Cunningham | February 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Several questions, Mr. Williams:
1) Alan Keyes belongs to a religion (Catholic) that teaches that artificial birth control is “intrinsically evil.” Are those of us who have no problem with the use of birth control also evil? Shouldn’t Mr. Keyes push for laws against birth control? Doesn’t his failure in this regard make him evil?
2) You mentioned Soddom and Gomorrah. Are you among those who consider the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah to have been sexual in nature? Jesus seemed to indicate that the principal sins of S&G were inhospitality and arrogance, which is what he was talking about in the gospel of Matthew when he said: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.”
3) If abortions were outlawed, would you favor murder charges against women who obtain them? How about charges of conspiracy to commit murder in cases of women who unsuccesfully seek to obtain abortions?
4) Does Alan Keyes’ disagreement with Obama on the issue of abortion give him the right to call the president “a radical communist”? Does that mean that the rest of us who disagree with Keyes on abortion are “radical communists”?
5) Are you familiar with the teachings of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine on just when the ensoulment of a fetus occurs?
6) Do you oppose abortion in cases of rape and incest?
7) If Alan Keyes agrees entirely with his church that a fetus is a person from the moment of conception, has he ever asked himself why the church doesn’t perform funerals for miscarried fetuses?
I suspect that you, too, Mr. Williams, would benefit from a renewed search for the truth.
8. Frankie | February 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
My wife and I had a baby last Summer. When my wife was only 5-weeks pregnant, we went to the Doc and had the ultrasound & other test done…when I heard my daughter’s heartbeat that day, it brought a rush of joy and emotion that is hard for me to put into words. Hearing my baby’s heart beating a mere 5-weeks after conception made it all so “real” to me. Inside my wife’s womb was another living being, a human, a soul; placed there by the hand of God.
When I was in college, twenty years ago, I got my then-girlfriend pregnant. We were both scared and clearly not in love. She had an abortion, and was never the same person afterwards. We both later admitted that the decision to abort that baby was a horrible mistake. It’s a memory that I can’t shake. I remember the date as if it was someone’s birthday or a holiday. I haven’t spoken to the woman I got pregnant in over fifteen years, so I don’t know how she still feels about it, but speaking for myself, I feel more guilty with every passing year. I am a Christian, I know I’ve been forgiven, but I will never forget, nor will I ever be able to forgive myself. Abortion is wrong, and if you talk to anyone who has done it; well, I imagine most of those people will at some time in their life, regret that decision with their whole heart.
Peace be with you all.
9. Pat Cunningham | February 21st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Peace be with you, too, Frankie. I don’t agree with you on Alan Keyes, but I wish you peace.
10. jackknife_johnny | February 21st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
But Keyes is right about one thing when he asks “How can a bankrupt nation save a bankrupt banking system?” Now, you can laugh at Keyes on whatever you like, but I am still waiting for the answer to his question, where does this trillion dollars come from?
It makes us take pause to wonder who is REALLY the crazy one here?
11. Joey | February 21st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Just because this man has criticized many of President Obama\’s ideas he has \"gone completely off the deep end\"??? Wow…this is an example right here of how the media is corrupting everyones viewpoints. Yes, there are some radical ideas that I do not agree with in Keyes interview, however, what Obama and the rest of Congress, democrats and Republicans, are doing is going to destroy our country. You people need to wake up and look at the data! The US is so far in debt right now it will take decades and decades to balance this budget and thats assuming we aren\’t going to have Obama spend even more! And yeah, it is a little interesting that he hasn\’t provided his birth documents…I mean if he was legally born here, he has nothing to hide, right?
12. 6of1halfdoz | February 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Here’s a question to ponder…. If Alan Keyes would have known his daughter would grow up to be a lesbian, do you think he would change his stand on abortion? Or perhaps it is more Christian to just disown her publicly as if to boost his own popularity and fail to nurture forgiveness or understanding?
I think Alan Keyes has posed some good questions, but even idiots can be right sometimes. Furthermore, you can agree with one person’s belief without buying into the entire thought process.
13. Mike | February 21st, 2009 at 10:27 pm
What he has to say is a little extreme, and he is personally not a very savory character, but the bulk of what he usually has to say has a lot of support among everyday citizens. He just resorts to name-calling and apocalyptic predictions which trivializes his arguments when they actually have some merit.
14. carpentr85 | February 21st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
pat cunningham you will figure it out at judgement day. unfortunately for you sir it might be too late.
15. David Barrett | February 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 am
carpentr85,
So when Pat meets St. Peter at the Pearly Gates he is going to be told how wrong he was and how right Alan Keyes was? That’s the best argument you have? Surely you must suspect that Pat has been threatened with eternal damnation for being a liberal before. Anyone who is susceptible to that particular line of argument would already be a right-wing fundamentalist.
16. Pat Cunningham | February 22nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
I don’t know for sure — NOBODY does — but I don’t think God looks kindly on those self-righteous folks who run around predicting who, specifically, is going to heaven or going to hell.
17. Craig Knauss | February 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
“…many people in this nation view Alan Keyes to be a true Patriot.” Yeah, well there are a lot of imbeciles out there. Someone once told me that Keyes was a war hero or something like that. So I checked. He’s nothing but a two-bit chicken hawk. Other members of his family have served in the military, but he avoided it every way he could. He’s never done anything patriotic in his life. All he’s done is criticize and insult others. Why do you people think when he campaigned in Illinois, most of the prominent Republicans treated him like he had the plague? They didn’t want to be in the same town with him.
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