Crossfire: Keys is a "real" African-American and Obama is not.....

[liberalnurse]

I'm listening to Keys focus on his passion of the day....payment for slaves; reformation compensation. Well, it sounds like he is trying to sell the fact that his American ancestors are black, and were slaves wherein Obama's American roots are white so....Key's is a better example of an American black man......


:eyes:

[Caution]

1. Is Keyes actually clinically insane?

I mean seriously. Where the hell does he come up with this stuff? Is he really that desperate for relevancy?

[Walt Starr]

2. I expect him to be institutionalized just after losing this election

Seriously.

[LuminousX]

3. Keyes - The New Face of the GOP

a total whackjob

The IL GOP must be so proud.

[smirkymonkey]

10. However, total whackjobs in the GOP are the norm.

Keyes fits right in.

[CarolynEC]

4. Oh, yes. A "real" American black man...

... who can stand up and say "those people" don't deserve the same rights as "the rest of us" because that's how "God says it should be."

Uses the vocabulary of the slave owner to assault gay and lesbian citizens.

Really, I know this guy's a joke, and that he drags the repugs a little lower every time he opens his mouth. But even so, there's a part of me that is just rooting for him to get run over by a large truck. What a vile despicable, horrible little man. :puke:

[liberalnurse]

5. I just had to post this....

He is a delusional man! Sick and sooooo out of touch with humanity and history!

It takes a perverted mind to think of this angle.

[xray s]

6. Don't drop out...don't drop out....

please Alan Keyes...DON"T DROP OUT!

[blondeatlast]

24. To hell with that...

Please, Alan, campaign HARDER!

[KamaAina]

7. He's still on that? He's been saying that since Sunday!

One would have hoped his handlers would have gotten him to chill after this exchange on ABC's This Week:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=629037&mesg_id=629037

Oh, right, a sentence with both "Keyes" and "chill" in it doesn't parrese...

[Walt Starr]

9. What handlers?

Keyes' ego couldn't handle the thought of handlers.

Besides, I think the GOP planned a budget on this campaign of $3.50.

[Blue_Roses]

28. OMG--

ROFLMAO! a budget of $3.50 :evilgrin:

[Trajan]

8. The 'True Scotsman' fallacy ....

No true scotsman puts sugar in his porridge ...

No true African American would resist Keyes nomination, because he is 'racially pure', unlike that halfbreed Obama ...

Is THAT how it goes ? ..

My goodness: Isnt that blatant racebaiting ? ..

[AspenRose]

12. If Keyes was a "real" African-American

He'd acknowledge that he's probably got white ancestry down the line too (albeit involuntarily, via the common slaveholder trend of raping slaves). Quite a few "real" African-Americans do (like Frederick Douglass).

He needs to read "Slaves in the Family."

[SemperEadem]

29. the interesting this is

no African American at this day and age really knows for sure who his ancestors were beyond the last 130-160 years because the white slaveowners didn't feel that a being who they regarded as no better than an animal needed or deserved any documentation on who his/her parents are.

So, Keyes wouldn't know, either. At least Obama knows he's Kenyan-American... none of the rest of us knows what country our ancestors were stolen out of.

[icymist]

11. Keyes is desperate...

He knows that he couldn't possibly defeat Obama intellectually or in debate so he resorts to this pettiness.

[buycitgo]

13. desperately......crazy

[joanski01]

14. I heard that, too.

Keyes said that Obama can't talk about slave reparations, because he wasn't descended from slaves.:wtf:

[ieoeja]

15. Political Satire Dies Another Death

My first reaction upon hearing the IL GOP picked Keyes was a memory of the governor's idiot son in O' Brother, Where Art Thou? suggesting they "get a little fella' even smaller than their little fella'" in response to the oppositions use of a midget on their campaign to represent the "little people". I laughed as I pictured some clueless WASP suggesting "why don't we get a black fella' even darker than their black fella".

But as with Jon Stewart finding it impossible to say anything about a typical Bush speech that is more ridiculous than the speech itself, it turns out my satirical picture of the Right has proven to be a true picture. Political satire is dead.

[Amaya]

16. I smell desperation

:)

[yellowcanine]

17. Does Keyes think he doesn't have "white" blood? What a moran.

And does he think ANYONE gives a shit? What an insult! I thought Keyes didn't believe in racial politics?????

[Ducks In A Row]

18. it's ok for the rethugs to use the race card

it's part of the rules.

[Cobia]

19. He painted himself with Krylon

He just thinks he's black

[retread]

20. Whatever else he is, Keyes is a good example of a modern Republican!

*

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Obama IS a "real" African-American

His father was African, and his mother was American. Simple.

[liberalnurse]

26. Oh, yes indeed but....the spin is

he did not come from a slave heritage....like Key's roots....thats why he is taking the "Johnny Cochran" approach to slave reformation compensation.

I guess he wants to mislead black Americans into thinking he is more like them than Obama is.......Obama can't know what it has been like.


I guess Key's never read Obama's book!

[SemperEadem]

30. His father was Kenyan

Africa is a continent.

[enigmatic]

22. Keyes is nuts...

and the best thing to ever happen to Obama (next to his keynote speech, of course..); you couldn't invent a more insane challenger for Obama..

[liberalnurse]

23. Sorry I had to leave the thread....

I forgot it was my day to carpool to cheerleading practice. :crazy:

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. Like that's going to fly!

The man is a certifiable LOONY!

[blondeatlast]

27. Since I seriously doubt that Keyes is receiving funding from the IL R's,

I think we should hold a fund raiser.

Everyone send him a check for 25 cents.

Don't forget to demand a receipt!