This is Mr Keyes' new home as confirmed by the Illinois GOP and Secretary of State filing records. The article states that it's a two-flat. According to the Cook County Tax records it's a 3 flat.
Posted on 08/11/2004 7:06:35 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
CHICAGO (CBS 2) Day four for Republican Alan Keyes' on the campaign trail brings more surprises! First, the senate candidate stopped to sing for CBS 2 News. Then, welcome to Mister Keyes' neighborhood. The out-of-towner will live temporarily in a suburban two-flat in the heart of Democratic territory.
And he seems to revel in delivering it. Keyes is the latest in a long line of politicians to burst into song. And he didn't even wait for an ethnic holiday the way most of them do.
Whether it was an Illinois governor and state senate president or a mayor, Chicago's singing politicians have mostly been rank Amateurs, with only one genuine million-selling professional recording star. Cook County Commissioner. Jerry "The Iceman" Butler may have a rival.
“I've been singing all my life. The first time I went on the state to sing I was six years old in the first grade. Music is a way of releasing, I guess, tensions and also good and bad feelings,” Keyes said.
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Keyes said he studied music at the New England Conservatory and even considered a career in Opera. He said music has shaped his distinctive public speaking style.
“A lot of it has to do with whether you're aware of the music that underlies all conversation. I mean every language, It is musical,” Keyes said.
Alan Keyes promised a different sort of campaign, his critics are finding some of the rhetoric he's been using to be much less than musical.
This is Mr Keyes' new home as confirmed by the Illinois GOP and Secretary of State filing records. The article states that it's a two-flat. According to the Cook County Tax records it's a 3 flat.
Better than promised, the video includes actual clips of all the oher singing politicians mentioned.
This was just the kind of post I craved, after fleeing to hide in hubby's computer den to avoid "the silence of the lambs" which he's watching in the living room. God bless Chi-town's crooning pols, of all parties and persuasions and God bless you John for this light-hearted post. That creepy movie was really freaking me out.
Silence of the Lambs, the first one, ends in Calumet City, IL, Keyes' new hometown
Thanks for the compliment, too!!!
OK, now you're freaking ME out! 8-)
It's probably was filmed in that basement.
Not necesarily a good thing. Wow, the media do have it in for him already, don't they.
Keyes will make a fine addition to the group of singing Senators including Hatch and Lott.............
"OK, now you're freaking ME out! 8-)"
That IS pretty strange. I'm just going to stay here, away from the TV, where it feels safe!
What Illinois needs is a clip of Alan singing 'Freedom... oh oh oh freedom.../And before I'd be a slave/I'd be buried in my grave/And belong to my Lord/And be free....'
That and other songs slaves used to sing. I heard this one on an archive of his speech at the 1996 Steeling the Mind of America.
I don't think you can get much "downer" than that. Good for him! Go Keyes!
Silence of the Lambs IS a scary movie. However, except for one brief cut when Hannibal is making his break in the ambulance (and the ending, of course), it's a surprisingly bloodless movie.
Not exactly Hillary or Kerry-acceptable digs, are they?
"Silence of the Lambs IS a scary movie. However,...it's a surprisingly bloodless movie."
The part that freaked me out was when the kidnapped girl was screaming for her mother. As a mom, I had to leave the room. I just really hate stuff like that being passed off as entertainment, to me it is just terrorizing, and I'm not being hyperbolic.
That was a cool video. Go Alan!
Oh, my. Anthony Newley is nearly impossible to listen to. (I sing for a living.)
I understand completely. Hollywood turns out a surprising number of "mainstream" movies that have no redeeming value in the slightest as "entertainment." Sometimes, when I see a film that's nothing like it was advertised, I almost wonder aloud, "WHO could possibly be amused or entertained by THIS?!?"
I'm sure it's to head-off criticism of the kind of Republican that Democrats like Obama expected him to be.
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