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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!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 ...
This year we had Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Alan Keyes, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, Fred Thompson, and John McCain all enter the race to be the next Republican nominee. And now they are all out but McCain. Keyes is Keyes of course, always running never winning and never doing anything really useful in the meantime. Tancredo, Hunter, and Paul all proved the truism that you cannot run for president as a US House Representative. Governor is great, Senate is OK, A victorious Military General is best. House of Representatives is no can do. And that's ...
They've become almost like distant family over this long year-and-a-half campaign that still has another eight months to go -- the kind of family you pray won't actually show up at Christmas or Thanksgiving, but family nonetheless. Many have already left the 2008 race, and many more will be gone come Super Tuesday.For those of us who follow politics, we know at least some of them by first name: Rudy, Barack, Dennis, Hitlery. And we know one of them by two first names, because that's how much Ron Paul loved Freedom.Others, we didn't really get to know at all. They were like the fifth cousin who ...
Show of hands: how many of you even knew he was running? I thought Alan Keyes was one of those wannabe candidates from way back when -- like 1996 and 2000. Now he's a retro wannabe? This is starting to look like an SNL skit. Next I expect to see Ross Perot crash the stage, and Patrick Buchanan march up and demand a mic. And halfway through the debate, we'll hear sighs and the sounds of paper tearing, and lo and behold, there's Al Gore sitting on the front row.You know who Alan Keyes is? He's like the college sophomore who just read Ayn Rand and thinks he's discovered the the philosopher's ...
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