[EternalVigilance]

The opposite. Keyes is a descendent of slaves so he'd qualify. Obama was not descended from slaves so he does not.

Which of course is the whole point of this purely political intellectual exercise.

[Catspaw]

Which of course is the whole point of this purely political intellectual exercise.

Um, last I looked, Alan Keyes was a candidate for the US Senate and this is now an integral part of his election plank. The place for a "purely political intellectual exercise" is in a classroom, not on the stump.