I am from Illinois but I saw the Channel 7 Keyes v Obama debate on C-SPAN last night. Alan did a fantastic job. Obama was moderately good at stating the Left Wing position. It really was one of the best debates I ever saw. I loved the way Alan suqashed that little bug Andy Shaw who always is making his trademark personal questions trying to embarrass Republicans. The best part of the debate was when they were asked about African-American issues. Keyes said that abortion was an African-American issue because 13 million black children had been killed in the last 30 years. He said that Planned Parenthood abortion clinics (money makers for some docs and staff) were disproportionately located in black neighborhoods and that the black population was now 25 percent less than what it would have been had it not been for Roe v. Wade. Clearly Obama was blown back and did not know how to respond except to say that abortion was not a civil rights issue. No other candidate but Keyes could have put Obama on the defensive the way he was last night. It was the best Keyes performance I have ever seen.
Me too.
In fact, it was the best debate performance I've ever seen from anybody.
We have to be encouraged when we have debaters like Alan Keyes, Dick Cheney and Ann Coulter on our side...
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