Obama Eludes Alan Keyes, Speaks at Arizona State's Graduation

You've won this round, Obama!

That's all Alan Keyes, our nation's presidential-protester-in-chief (sorry Glenn Beck), can say after Barack Obama circumvented his ongoing vigil at Notre Dame and delivered Arizona State University's commencement address before Keyes even had a chance to get arrested in Tempe.

Keyes' history with Obama is both long and bizarre, and it includes:

* Carpet-bagging to Illinois from his native Maryland to oppose Obama in the 2004 U.S. Senate election. Voters rewarded him with a generous 27% of the vote.

* Opposing Obama in the 2008 presidential election, and losing an astounding 3 times: First for the GOP nomination, then for the Constitution Party nomination, and finally in the general election as the nominee of America's Independent Party.

* Writing incoherent rants about Obama in World Net Daily, where he resides in the company of distinguished columnists such as Pat Boone.

* Loudly trumpeting that Obama forged his birth certificate, aligning himself with Kenyan deportee Jerome Corsi.

* Camping out in South Bend, waiting for Obama to arrive at Notre Dame, and praying to his maker for a chance to dump a bucket of blood, PETA-style, on the president.

But it's too late to add a showdown in the desert to the list. Obama arrived, spoke and left before Keyes even had the chance to wheel around his baby strollers filled with blood-soaked dolls and make a beeline west.

Not that Obama got off easy at ASU. For one thing, he was deemed unworthy of a degree. And just as his pro-choice stance is drawing fire at Notre Dame, a similar response awaited his anti-kegstand position, which looms in contrast to ASU's unofficial charter.