[wagglebee]

"I would still be picking cotton if the country's moral principles had not been shaped by the Declaration of Independence," Keyes said. He said Obama "has broken and rejected those principles-- he has taken the slaveholder's position."

Damn! He's stirred up the hornet's nest with that! I love it!

[FormerACLUmember]

The democrat party was, AND REMAINS FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS, the party of suppression and degradation of African Americans.

The Republican Party was founded for the specific purpose of liberating blacks, and fought a bloody civil war agaist the democrat party for that purpose.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Excellent. Keyes has to expose Obama as the fool he is.

[Squantos]

Only cotton either one of these guys has seen was in a new bottle of aspirn.

[ChicagoHebrew]

"I would still be picking cotton if the country's moral principles had not been shaped by the Declaration of Independence," Keyes said. He said Obama "has broken and rejected those principles-- he has taken the slaveholder's position."

That's a really stupid quote. After all, it took 89 years after the Dec of Independence to free the slaves.

[k2blader]

Go, Keyes, go!!

Just ignore the liberal GOPers siding with the Dems. :-)

[HamiltonJay]

Woo Hoo!!! This is gonna be good!

[HamiltonJay]

Obama said Monday that there would be "a sufficient number of debates" between himself and Keyes-- both men are Harvard-educated, polished debaters-- but not the seven such clashes he had promised Ryan.

"That was the home-state special," Obama cracked. He declined to set a specific number, adding that staffers in the two campaigns would iron on the details later.

Sounds to me that Obama is running scared on the debate issue already.....

[Aquinasfan]

"I would still be picking cotton if the country's moral principles had not been shaped by the Declaration of Independence," Keyes said. He said Obama "has broken and rejected those principles-- he has taken the slaveholder's position."

Holy bleep! Obama should just keep his mouth shut for the next three months.

Keyes is going to obliterate Obama with thunderous rhetoric.

[lugsoul]

Nice rhetorical flourish. But what, exactly, is the difference between the men who set down those principles in the Declaration, and put their names to it, and slaveholders?

[1Old Pro]

Keyes is going to make this race interesteing. At least there will be some debate and thought on the issues.

[Tall_Texan]

I would have preferred Ditka. If Ditka attacked Obama, the media would consider it cute. With Keyes, the media will consider it hateful. Just wait until somebody calls Keyes "the house N*gger". You know somebody's gonna say it before November gets here.

[loveliberty2]

Anybody else notice that in the notices in papers around the country yesterday about the GOP choice of Keyes in Illinois, Keyes was referred to as A Maryland CONSERVATIVE Republican.

On the other hand, Obama was NOT referred to as a LIBERAL. Instead, he was called a "rising star" in the Democratic Party.

How's that for not-so-subtle liberal slant of the news?

OReilly should latch on to that one!!! That is, if he still cares about the journalistic bias toward the Left and against any who dare hold for "conserving" and preserving the Founders' views.