The original purpose of the Senate was to protect the States. Ever since the 17th Amendment was enacted, this is no longer true.
Obama is being groomed and positioned for national office as "the true face of black America". What he really represents is another clintonesque stealth candidate, supposedly a moderate/centrist, but in reality a functional leftist. Like Clinton he possesses the charisma and eloquence to charm, soothe and reassure the voters into dropping their guard while he and his party continue implementing their leftist agenda.
For this reason alone it is important to have an equally intelligent and eloquent black candidate such as Keyes, who is also a true Constitutionist and conservative, oppose him in public debate, and to do it now, and not allow the media to create, without challenge, a "Mythos of Obama".
If it is important to have an "intelligent black" on the ticket, it would then be doubly important to have an ILLINOIS "intelligent black" there, otherwise you are saying there is no such person in the state.
Look, Obama is a Socialist.
Keyes is a conservative.
If you care a *whit* about Federalism, the choice is trivial.
saying 'oh, I'm a federalist, so I can't vote for a pro-Constitution candidate who happens to have been in a different state before he got drafted by my state's party to run for office ... well, that's beyond nitpicky'.
Get over it, let's support Keyes in unity and try to win.
Obama is a leftist, and is wrong for the USA and Illinois.
Obama could be the deciding vote that votes down a judicial conservative to the US Supreme Court.
He could be the 50th vote to stop tax cuts, to support amnesty for illegals, to gut tort reform, and to further ruin education with liberal policies on education and an anti-school-choice agenda.
Residency is in the noise compared to the real issues at stake here.
"Obama is being groomed and positioned for national office as "the true face of black America". What he really represents is another clintonesque stealth candidate, supposedly a moderate/centrist, but in reality a functional leftist. Like Clinton he possesses the charisma and eloquence to charm, soothe and reassure the voters into dropping their guard while he and his party continue implementing their leftist agenda.
"For this reason alone it is important to have an equally intelligent and eloquent black candidate such as Keyes, who is also a true Constitutionist and conservative, oppose him in public debate, and to do it now, and not allow the media to create, without challenge, a "Mythos of Obama."
Excellent!!!
A nation's liberty is at stake, and here, we have an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of persons to hear the Founding ideas articulated as they might have been from the lips of Washington or Jefferson, and all some can do is gripe about "carpetbagging"?
Get the bigggggggg picture, guys!!
We have a country
- whose constitutional principles are being undermined by activist judges,
- whose children are being murdered in the womb,
- whose school-age children are being dumbed down and never taught the ideas of liberty,
- whose citizens believe men like the wealthy Kerry and Edwards have their best interests at heart and are ready to trade their votes for promises (the currency of those who desire power),
AND YOU ARE NOT SEEING THAT PERHAPS "DIVINE PROVIDENCE" IS PROVIDING, ONCE AGAIN, FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENLIGHTEN AT LEAST A FEW CITIZENS AS TO THE BANKRUPTCY AND FALLACIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S AGENDA FOR AMERICA?
Come on!! Obama is probably going to win, no matter who the Republicans offer up! At least, there is a man who can rebut his ideas.