Posted on 08/19/2004 5:27:04 AM PDT by kattracks
His voice rising to a yell, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Alan Keyes told a bipartisan civic group Wednesday he "will not budge" from his belief that descendants of slaves should be exempted from income taxes to help heal the wounds of past discrimination and segregation.The former presidential candidate disdainfully brushed aside questions over whether his suggestion should apply to rich African Americans such as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan or Oprah Winfrey.
"Do you know how many Oprah Winfreys there might have been running around in the 1930s or in the 1920s or in the 19-teens that got nowhere because the doors were shut in their face?" Keyes thundered. "If you think that because I wear a conservative label, I have forgotten that history and am not mindful of that injustice -- then I will tell you now that you are wrong."
Keyes delivered his blistering defense at a luncheon of the City Club of Chicago, scolding fellow conservatives who challenged his proposal and evoking the struggle of his African-American parents, saying they had talent and "hearts and spirit and strength and faith."
"Why didn't they get to a point where they could stand on this platform?" Keyes aked.
Vying against Democrat Barack Obama, Keyes drew heat from conservatives earlier this week when he proposed exempting descendants of slaves from income taxes for a generation or two, a view he insists "involves a traditionally Republican, conservative and market-oriented approach."
On Wednesday, Keyes ridiculed the fuss over his position, saying it is simply a tax break, something "Republicans and my conservative brethren" don't object to when applied to a "wealthy corporation."
Conservative activist Jack Roeser met with Keyes for what Roeser called "a long argument and an intense one" over the issue before the speech. A Barrington businessman, Roeser said he still is not sold on Keyes' reparations proposal, but still plans to support him anyway. "I will tell my friends that this is a good man, and we should support him."
I hate to break it to you, tame, but you're no match for Michael Medved.
What are you going to do, tell him Jim doesn't want him to talk?
That does not speak well for your reading comprehension abilities.
The man is clearly a moron - a capital letter moron, judging by the way he not only coughed up this hairball, but then turned around and went to bat for it.
If observing that moronic behavior makes one a moron is tantamount to "hate", then I suggest you aim your cannons where they'd do the most good -- the land is filled with psychologists and psychologists who make those observations daily, and even get paid to do so.
What bastions of HATE those mental hospitals must be, eh?
Too many here are wrapped up in personalities instead of keeping their eye on the prize.
But what I don't understand is why so many conservatives simply refuse to see the benefits of what would amount to a HUGE tax cut. Yes, it is "unfair." Life is unfair. The tax code is deeply unfair. Matter of fact, I think that just about any tax break that someone else gets that I don't is unfair.
This mentality is nearly universal. It is what the Democrats so successfully tap into every time they accuse Bush and the Republicans of "squeezing the middle class" to give a tax break to the rich.
If your sole standard for supporting a tax break is "fairness," then how can you support any tax breaks at all???
LMAO!
When "telling you what you can post" boils down to chiding you for YOU telling ME what I CANNOT post, well, hey, you just won the Golden Troll award for Hypocrite of the Day!
"...I went down to the crossroads...tried to hitch a ride...yeah, I went down to the cross roads...tried to hitch a ride...nobody seemed to know me...everybody passed my hyyyyyyyyye..."
See? :o)
LOL - okey dokey.
LOL - okey dokey.
According to the trolls here, that means that Medved "hates" him.
It's getting terribly deep in here lately. A guy could strike it rich selling hip-waders and shovels. LOL!
I am a big fan of Medved's. I knew he wasn't a Keyester by any means, but this is brutal...
I've never gotten that impression. I think it's more likely that Medved hasn't had time to think it through, or possibly doesn't even have a clear picture of what was proposed and is just having a knee-jerk reaction to the word "reparations".
Not saying he would LIKE it even then - I'm not sure I do - I'm just saying that such an outraged reaction is usually a first reaction...probalby he needs to hear some of the rational behind it to have a calmer take on it.
Wrong. For demonstration of who the hypocrite is, please see posts #386 and #392 :o) Or...let's just get along and agree that Keyes goofed on the reparations thing.
So you oppose the tax cut for descendents of slaves?
What's Medved's number and how long is he on?
Don't play those spin games.
I did not say "selective", I said:
You're damn straight I'll oppose any selective tax break, if it's based on a bigotry-basis.Want to offer a selective tax break based on skin color, sexual practices, gender, or national origin?
Then count me in as being OPPOSED to it.
You just strawmanned me, bigtime. You owe me an apology. I'll start taking you seriously again after I receive it.
Until then, you're trolling me, twisting MY words to make them say what YOU want to attack. And that's just plain dirty pool.
I can't believe that "conservatives" are calling for race-based tax freedom.
What next? Homosexual-housing credits? Hey, if it saves just ONE vote...
It's like a train wreck.
It is terrible, but folks just cannot stop looking at the twisted steel.
this is a twisted idea from a seriously questionable supposedly conservative candidate. race based tax cuts are ok with freepers? Is it anything goes, as long as the guy says he is pro life and kicks bush and his supporters in the groin with the "baby killer" approach to republican leadership?
Would these folks vote for lenin... if lenin promised to stop all abortions in the USA? Or mao tse tung?
I was always taught that redistribution of wealth, was marxist and that doing so according to race, was racist and unacceptable as conservative fiscal policy for a nation.
Gee was I stupid.
Guess we better start reading up on marxism, and other luminary works that detail the glories of racist tax policies.
mind boggling.
medved is right.
Well I have a lot of problems with the tactic, and with candidates who say one thing and do another. But rather than argue with the Keyes crowd I'll just say that I no longer care what principle Dr. Keyes trashes, what whopper he tells, what level of pandering he stoops to. I still think that he's going to get his head handed to him in November, but on the off chance he wins then I admit that he certainly won't be any worse than the rest of the crowd that infests the Senate these days.
He'll be on until 3:00PST...I'll post the number as soon as I hear it. (I think the last part is 1776)
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