[unspun]

There you have it.

[unspun]

ping away

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[Lurking Libertarian]

More flip-flops.

Can't he find some grown-ups to work on his campaign?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

There seems to be an effort to take Keyes comments out of context and report the heck out of them. This is the second time it has happened in two days.

[NYCVirago]

There you have it.

There we have what? Just because he provided more details doesn't make it any less reparations, any less pandering, or any less insane.

[k2blader]

Ping!

[johnfrink]

[k2blader]

I have also made it clear that while I believe that the descendants of slaves would be helped by this period of tax relief, my firm goal and ultimate objective is to replace the income tax, and thereby free all Americans from this insidious form of tax slavery. It is well known that this is one of the key priorities of the Keyes campaign.

Ta da.

[NCPAC]

"There you have it."

Yes, there you have it. Keyes is a "nuanced" flip-flopper, just like Kerry.

There you have it, indeed.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Alan Keyes is one of the worst politicians in the entire world.

I have no problem with brainstorming and kicking around ideas which one has no intention of actually proposing, but a candidate mustn't do it in public.

[Catspaw]

Uh huh. This sounds like he's backpedaling.

[k2blader]

Hope you don't mind the ping, since it seemed to be in line with your other post.

Go, Keyes, go!!

[johnfrink]

Now I'm beginning to realize why's he renting his Illinois apartment on a month-by-month basis.

[harrycarey]

contextualizing = backpeddaling = spinning = getting foot out of mouth

[Little Ray]

Didn't make it better. The man tries to have it both ways. Show me how blacks in this country are worse off than blacks in Africa. That is the ONLY legitimate way to determine if slavery "did real damage to black Americans, left real and persistent material wounds in need of healing."

Until he repudiates this stance, this Alan Keyes has nothing more to say that interests me. I hope Obama wins. The GOP tent ain't big enough for reparations bigots.

Pity. I VOTED for Alan Keyes over GW Bush in the 2000 primary and worked for the campaign.

[k2blader]

Hm, it appears (so far) that none of the anti-Keyes folks even read this statement let alone bothered to understand it.

Ah well. Lead a horse to water, but...

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

"Keyes is a man of ideas, and I expect he gets into discussions like this that are proper in their proper place, but that he would never vote for reparations. The problem with American politics is that people don't get into deep discussions."

[Truthsearcher]

Actually this is not backpedaling at all, this is brilliant, because it diffuses the entire reparations argument.

Tax relieft is fundamentally different from giving people money, because tax relief encourages people to work harder (you can't get tax relief unless you have income that can be taxed), while giving people money encourages them to not work.

What this also does is that is gets the minority communities to support TAX CUTS, which they *NEVER* do.
And you know what the next step is? After they get their tax cuts for a while, the debate becomes, should we raise the taxes minorities so that they pay the same as everyone else, or should be cut taxes for everyone else to get them to the same rate as the minorities. Now, the Dems, who wants to raise taxes, will want to raise taxes on the minorities, and the Republicans, will be the ones who say, no, we don't want to raise taxes on anyone, this will get the minories to vote for the people who won't raise *their* taxes.

[Amish with an attitude]

"the U.S. should do what the Romans did:"

So should the United States also go belly up as a civilization?

That's what the Romans did.

[yarddog]

This idea is intellectually absurd.

I always liked Keyes but this is making him look like a lightweight.

[LowOiL]

I like Keyes on many issues. But sometimes he makes some stupid stupid comments that link him to the fruit loop gang.

This clarification was just further "muttelfication" (this is my word and I am sticking with it) in my book.

Keyes will never get the black vote and now has alienated his white voters.

Amazing