Posted on 08/17/2004 9:04:17 AM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
1. Obama is discredited for his pro-abort, high tax positions. 2. Keyes cuts through the election rhetoric with incindiary comments that reveal Obama's leftist leanings. 3. ALL conservatives in Illinois register and vote for Keyes.
I'd say Keyes has a 10% chance of winning. Before his nomination, I'd say there was a 0% chance.
Does the website have a transcript of his press conference yesterday? The press coverage in the Chicago papers have him saying something about reparations for descendents of slaves and I'd like see exactly what he said.
Anybody want to place odds on a Bush endorsement?
I think the commentary has a small error: Wasn't Sam Houston BORN in VA, not TN?
What real issues? Abortion and reparations for blacks. Yeah those are the real issues. Barf!! The idiot Keyes is now in favor of reparations. However rather than pay cash, he wants to give blacks freedom from taxes for two generations. Yeah that's a conservative idea. NOT!
250 to 1 AGAINST endorsement. GW is no fool and he doesnt put up with fools like Keyes.
Sam Houston
Birthplace:
Rockbridge County, Virginia
Based upon this site:
http://www.who2.com/samhouston.html
I skimmed through the article and didn't catch anything about reparations.
A Karl Rove endorsement: 0% chance.
A Bush endorsement: 10% chance
If specifically asked in a press conference, President Bush will endorse Keyes.
As much as I like Keyes, as a candidate he's brought up: (1) his support of his version of reparations (in contradiction of his earlier statements); (2) his desire to get rid of the direct election of U.S. Senators.
This isn't mainstream stuff and Keyes is making it easy for the Dems (and the press) to paint him as a wacko. Alan needs to get a grip and only talk about things that can win him the election.
Like reparations?
Watch this issue carefully:
What he said was that, rather than cash payments as reparations, he favored exempting from federal income taxes those who could prove they were descendants of slaves - leaving out for example his opponent Barak Osama.
Now: How many of those who can prove they're the descendants of slaves actually have federal income taxes to pay? And how many instead are receiving "negative taxes" or rather the federal "earned income credit"?
Will the "exemption" from federal taxes mean the end of those federal handouts?
Would that be a bad thing?
You've got to be kidding.
Keyes has plan for reparations
...Prompted by a reporter's question, Keyes gave a brief tutorial on Roman history and said that in regard to reparations for slavery, the U.S. should do what the Romans did: "When a city had been devastated [in the Roman empire], for a certain length of time--a generation or two--they exempted the damaged city from taxation."Keyes proposed that for a generation or two, African-Americans of slave heritage should be exempted from federal taxes--federal because slavery "was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment." In calling for the tax relief, Keyes appeared to be reaching out to capture the black vote, something that may prove difficult to do, particularly after his unwelcome reception at the Bud Billiken Day Parade Saturday.
The former ambassador said his plan would give African-Americans "a competitive edge in the labor market," because those exempted would be cheaper to hire than federal tax-paying employees and would "compensate for all those years when your labor was being exploited."
Under Keyes' plan, African-Americans would still have to pay the Social Security tax, because "it's not a tax in the strict sense," said Keyes, calling it instead a payment to support a social insurance program...
As for our domestic spend-happy compassionate drunken sailor of a President, he's done a hell of a lot worse.
Actually, Keyes doidn't bring this up. The Illinois press printed an article based on comments Keyes made about 5 years ago.
Basically, you mean - if his arm is twisted out of its socket. Yep.
You forgot race.
As we were informed yesterday, Keyes is blacker than Obama.
One of us is, me or Alan Keyes...
So he did bring it up then, right?
Ironically, Obama is the candidate of the racial segregationist. It is not because segregationists want him to be a Senator. It is because he is classified African-American using the standards of racial segregationists.
Obama is called an African–American. However, Obama is half-white. His father, who was black, abandoned him and his mother when he was about two years old. He lived with his white mother and white grandparents.
Considering a mixed race individual an African-American is a typical liberal practice. They routinely refer to anyone who is partially black as black. Tiger Woods, Halle Berry and Mariah Carey are all mixed race celebrities regularly referred to by the liberal media as black. Tiger Woods has had the gall to complain about this. (With good reason; his mother is Asian.)
Ironically, this custom by liberals and Democrats of referring to partially black people as black is simply a reiteration of the old racist, Jim Crow, "one-eighth law." In racist locales, such as segregation-era Louisiana, people with as little as one-eighth African-American ancestry were classified as black. This classification led to dramatic curtailments of freedom. In Missouri and Mississippi, "The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void." Obama is black only by the standards of white segregationists.
By insisting that mixed-race individuals be considered black, Democrats -- the party of the unreconstructed South -- are displaying their segregationist roots.
Obama the candidate is conservative only when addressing a national television audience. Ironically, the oddball Black Commentator magazine is partially correct. Obama is a stealth candidate -- a liberal stealth candidate.
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