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Keyes won't back down on reparations
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 8/19/04 | SCOTT FORNEK

Posted on 08/19/2004 5:27:04 AM PDT by kattracks

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To: tame
Just campaigning AGAINST Keyes.

A despicable lie.

381 posted on 08/19/2004 12:43:48 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: kattracks

Raparations in the form of TAX RELIEF - I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!! We conservatives are supposed to be for tax relief every chance we get. I'm all for this. Go, Keyes!!!


382 posted on 08/19/2004 12:43:59 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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To: swampfox98
Total stupidity. Hey, Keyes, make the descendants repay over 5 trillion dollars tax payers were forced to give them since the "War on Poverty" began. Let's start over - even steven.

Gosh, is Keyes nuts?

Be careful. Asking obvious questions like that is tantamount to inviting nonstop vile attack and threats. Check out the crap I've been taking for the crime of not swallowing the koolade.

383 posted on 08/19/2004 12:45:30 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: chambley1
Keyes is using this as a precuser for tax cuts for all. It's a brillant strategy when you think about it, even if he loses the Senate race. The libs are falling all over this.

Why is it that the word "brilliant" is so frequently used to describe art, movies, and political maneuvers that are plainly awful?
Tax cuts for all sounds great, but this would not be a foot in the door. This would be a race-based perk that would remain race-based and would cause racial resentment like this country hasn't seen in some time.

384 posted on 08/19/2004 12:47:42 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: Saundra Duffy
Raparations in the form of TAX RELIEF - I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!! We conservatives are supposed to be for tax relief every chance we get. I'm all for this. Go, Keyes!!!

You're right!

I see the light!

Um, where do I sign up for "the operation", so that I can qualify for this Exciting Government Benefit too?

I mean, a "great idea" is only "a great idea" if I can use it.

Right now, I'm cursed with this "white skin" stuff.

So I guess I'm gonna have to get "the operation", so that I can qualify for "TAX RELIEF", the "GREAT IDEA!"

Got any "GREAT IDEAS" on how I can qualify for this WITHOUT getting "the operation"?

385 posted on 08/19/2004 12:48:43 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Don Joe
Don Joe to Mod: Please advise this person to...play nice...

Don Joe to tame and Mod: stop posting the same tripe over and over...

Don Joe to tame: Who TF are YOU to dictate to everyone else what they may and may not say?

Funny, that's what I was going to ask YOU after you ran to the mod complaining about what I may or may not say. BTW, what happened to playing nice?

You are a vile, disgusting little worm, attempting to intimidate those whom you cannot best in discussion. Your kind makes me ill.

That's not nice.

386 posted on 08/19/2004 12:49:54 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Amen! I never thought I'd see so many conservatives whining about potential tax relief for other people.

Any reduction in taxes is a good thing. Period. I don't care if they decide who gets it by playing "eenie-meenie-minie-mo."

387 posted on 08/19/2004 12:51:07 PM PDT by cicero's_son
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To: tame

Your history speaks for itself, as does my objection to your history of spamming and personal attacks, accusing people of a variety of vile actions.

I stand by my description of you.


388 posted on 08/19/2004 12:51:23 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Don Joe
The more I think about it, I must have been "the greater fool" for SUPPORTING Keyes for all these years.

Well, don't be so hard on yourself. Keyes is just a politician and this reparations proposal is just an idea he had.

What would it take to win you back? How about if he said that now that he's heard from many of his supporters, listened to their thoughts, and has had a chance to think about it some more, he's convinced that it's the wrong approach?

389 posted on 08/19/2004 12:51:51 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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To: EternalVigilance; Howlin

Look here you.
You were one of the nastier posters on the Arnold threads.
Now let's at least be HONEST!
Howlin is correct about you slamming
other Republicans who do not meet your
particular definition of a conservative.

You know from me here on the boards,
that I HOPE Keyes wins and that I
would vote for him were I in IL or
for that matter, IF I could via a dead
person lying in some democrat graveyard
in IL.

OUR enemies are democrats.
I wish folks would understand THAT.




390 posted on 08/19/2004 12:51:54 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: tame

Dude, you have really gotten under that guy's skin. He's absolutely freaking out...why does he hate Keyes so much???


391 posted on 08/19/2004 12:51:54 PM PDT by cicero's_son
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To: Don Joe
tame: Just campaigning AGAINST Keyes.

Don Joe: A despicable lie.

Don Joe [earlier]: ...this MORON Keyes...We'll be laughing our asses off on election day when the returns come in, and shouting a virtual "We TOLD YOU SO!" to the wind.

A little contradiction, there.

392 posted on 08/19/2004 12:53:36 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Who is Kohn?
I thought Keyes' opponent is some guy named Obama?


393 posted on 08/19/2004 12:54:02 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: cicero's_son
Any reduction in taxes is a good thing. Period. I don't care if they decide who gets it by playing "eenie-meenie-minie-mo."

Money is fungible.

Selective race-based "reduction in taxes" for the selected race means "tax INCREASE" for the other races.

This proposal is race-baiting and pandering of the basest form.

But hey, it's a free country (so to speak), and you are entitled to proposed race-based tax subsidies for one racial group.

I hope you enjoy the results. Keep working, there are many families who will be depending on you carrying their fair share of the tax burden.

394 posted on 08/19/2004 12:54:18 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Catspaw

Are your cousins voting for Keyes?


395 posted on 08/19/2004 12:54:49 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: cicero's_son
Dude, you have really gotten under that guy's skin. He's absolutely freaking out...why does he hate Keyes so much???

ROTFLMAO! I was thinking the same thing. I can see the guy about to have a heart attack. I don't know why he hates Keyes so much.

396 posted on 08/19/2004 12:54:59 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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To: Don Joe
Be careful. Asking obvious questions like that is tantamount to inviting nonstop vile attack and threats. Check out the crap I've been taking for the crime of not swallowing the koolade.

I voted for Keyes over George Bush in the primaries, so I respect him. However, his statement on reparation, if it is true, makes me livid.

I've been in a few battles here for not swallowing the koolade. In fact, I had to fight people here when I announced that I was going to vote for Keyes over Bush. Anyhow, nothing bothers me. When I see something that is wrong and stupid I comment.

397 posted on 08/19/2004 12:55:37 PM PDT by swampfox98 (We are at war! We have been at war since 9/11. How smart do you have to be to understand this?)
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To: Scenic Sounds
What would it take to win you back?

Well, first thing, he'd have to come down from whatever it is he's smoking.

After that point is reached, we can discuss where we go from there. I'm a "once burned, twice shy" kinda guy, after all.

398 posted on 08/19/2004 12:55:42 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: kattracks

Funny. SO Keyes plays the ultimate black card, pandering to the black voters, to drive a wedge between them and Obama.

Shameful. Now he's for reparations.

First, he rightly nailed Hillary - then he does the same.

Then he takes the most harebrained idea and tries to get black votes with it.

What a clown. All his rhetoric turns out to be garbage. All his alleged principles disappear when he champions this joke of an idea.

Well, at least he's getting some publicity.

Now, would there be an income cap? Ie after 200K you pay taxes or what.

And people wonder why he's turning into a laughing stock.


399 posted on 08/19/2004 12:56:39 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Don Joe
Taxation is not a zero-sum game, or at least it need not be. If Keyes or anyone else proposed INCREASING another group's taxes in order to "offset" the reduction granted to descendents of slaves, I'd oppose it vehemently.

You're buying into the Democrat lie that taxes are zero-sum, that a reduction in taxes for, say, the "wealthiest 1%" amounts to an increase for everyone else.

400 posted on 08/19/2004 12:56:59 PM PDT by cicero's_son
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