OK, Keyes still has much more in common with me than Obama. Since I live in Illinois I will vote for him and do it proudly. I want someone who speaks for me and will help Bush eliminate abortion, Keyes will do it, Obama will not.
I can live with that and when I see God face to face explain why I voted for a carpetbagger who opposed killing babies. Explain to me again why I am wrong.
If I may. You are not wrong in voting for Keyes. However, the apology your spinning on Keyes behalf is intellectually offensive, and that's why you're catching the heat you're catching.
Obama is undoubtedly extremely liberal, and therefore bad for IL. However, there is no argument, none, zero, zilch that Obama is even remotely unqualified due to his residency. Ronald Reagan was born in IL, yet became the governor of California, but unlike Hilary, Reagan was actually a resident of California, and Obama is likewise genuinely a longstanding resident of IL.
You don't have to support Obama to be intellectually honest and admit that if Keyes has met the residency requirements, that Obama has met them a hundred times over.
Succinct and exactly right.
I too, am an Illinois voter and one question I won't have to answer when I meet my Maker is: "Why did you help elect someone who was in favor of killing innocents?"
Ditto!
As for Obama: If I had wanted to vote for a Communist, I'd have moved to the USSR in 1970.