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Alan Keys is one of the foremost orators on liberty in our time. Unfortunately his organization and campaigning skills have never been nearly enough to get him elected...but he is spot on with these comments.
1 posted on 02/22/2009 2:04:10 PM PST by Jeff Head
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FYI...we need, and I believe we are going to see, a lot more of this.


2 posted on 02/22/2009 2:04:53 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

4 posted on 02/22/2009 2:06:52 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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Alan Keyes - saying what needs to be said. May God bless and protect him.


5 posted on 02/22/2009 2:07:45 PM PST by Think free or die (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - M.Thatcher)
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We need to be perfectly clear that by “stopping” him we mean using political means to stop his political agenda.


6 posted on 02/22/2009 2:07:54 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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And what is his solution to our current set of problems?


7 posted on 02/22/2009 2:08:44 PM PST by Riodacat (Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.)
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Is he sure Obama isn’t just someone that we disagree with, but really means well? That was sarcasm. Keyes is one of the few telling it like it is.


9 posted on 02/22/2009 2:09:45 PM PST by beaversmom
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The country was warned that Obama is a radical. But they just did not care.


10 posted on 02/22/2009 2:09:53 PM PST by Islaminaction
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Given Zero’s behavior so far, it’s hard to believe his goal is anything less than the total destruction of the USA.


11 posted on 02/22/2009 2:10:31 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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May those with the ability to be heard and with the courage to speak the truth, be safe.


12 posted on 02/22/2009 2:11:40 PM PST by Kimberly GG (Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda been HUNTER.)
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bttt


13 posted on 02/22/2009 2:12:49 PM PST by jackv (Just shakin' my head!!)
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Jim Demint / Alan Keyes 2012
Jim Demint / Sarah Palin 2012
Jim Demint / Pete Sessions 2012

or something along those lines.

We will need a STRONG, STAUNCH, UNAPOLOGETIC CONSERVATIVE running in 2012.

No more moderates. No more compassionate conservatives, No more Rino’s.

Ronald Reagan won on a STRONG conservative platform, not some wussy compassionate conservatism crap.

If the GOP puts up another moderate centrist in 2012, you'll see nothing more than 4 more years of this madness Barry and the socialist are dishin out.

16 posted on 02/22/2009 2:14:01 PM PST by servantboy777
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Since Obama’s term goes to 2012 and since we have elections in 2010, I would say that the first order of business in order to stop things from “going through” is to change a few people in office in 2010 (which is the closer date).

Bills make their way through Congress and are voted on by the members of Congress. Obama can sign or not sign them, of course, but they still have to “get to him” in the first place for him to sign them.

So, if one wants to stop legislation from getting passed, the 2010 date is a critical one, and “indirectly” affects what Obama can do.

Then, the next date to be concerned about is 2012. At that time, one has to change the “numbers” that we saw from this last election.

You have to change the votes, which were — 69,456,897 votes to 59,934,814 votes. And then you have to change the Electoral College votes, which were — 365 Electoral votes to 173 Electoral votes. And change this percentage, which was shown in the last election to be — 52.9% to 45.7%

Those are the numbers that have to change, and somehow get those people to *switch* (who did vote for Obama) to vote for the Republican ticket instead of the Democrat ticket.

If one does those two things, in regards to 2010 and 2012, then they will “stop Obama”.

I would say that *this* is the focus — and — “methodology” for stopping Obama...


19 posted on 02/22/2009 2:15:42 PM PST by Star Traveler
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Keyes lost to Obama by such a landslide as to be a pathetic embarrassment. He was a carpet bagger through and through. Meanwhile the RINO-leaning Illinois GOP should have supported conservative senator Fitzgerald, but stabbed him in the back behind the scenes, leaving us with Keyes.

Now, we’re getting lectured from the same people that brought Obama to power by their ineptitude. Wake me when this nightmare is over.


27 posted on 02/22/2009 2:19:21 PM PST by egannacht
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Alan Keys is one of the foremost orators on liberty in our time. Unfortunately his organization and campaigning skills have never been nearly enough to get him elected...but he is spot on with these comments.

Disclaimers such as these will keep him down too. It is the foolishness of pragmatism that criticizes true statesmen and gives bubble-headed posers swift acclaim.

42 posted on 02/22/2009 2:28:44 PM PST by roamer_1 (Proud 1%er... Reagan Conservatism is the only way forward.)
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At the very least. If Obama’s agenda isn't stopped, the post-WWII America I grew up in will certainly be gone, forever.

As a candidate, the appeal of Alan Keyes has always been stunted by his hyperventilated rhetoric that divides conservatives, more than unites us.

Btw, Reagan was successful with 80% of his policy agenda and that was fine by me.

48 posted on 02/22/2009 2:34:01 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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Alan Keyes could have been the first Black president. But the media made him the invisible man. They didn’t trash him because that would have given him publicity. Instead they totally ignored him.
A mean thing to do to a fine, honest man.
Of course we know why they did it. Because he is Roman Catholic who is against abortion.


54 posted on 02/22/2009 2:39:00 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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What crime would he be guilty of if he knowingly ran for president while not a natural-born citizen and participated in a conspiracy to cover that up?


56 posted on 02/22/2009 2:40:28 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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BTTT for Amb. Keyes!


62 posted on 02/22/2009 2:47:32 PM PST by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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“Obama is a radical communist, and I think it is becoming clear.”

If Alan Keyes is right, and I believe that he is, we must begin to understand that we are divided as a nation between communists and not-communists and that the twain shall never agree on anything.

All ‘republican’ congressmen had better realize that ‘reaching across the aisle’ will get them their hands cut off. We are no longer a nation of two political parties, joined by the love for it, but of two factions with different and opposite ideas of the direction that they want to take this country.


63 posted on 02/22/2009 2:48:49 PM PST by 353FMG (Trust in Glock.)
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I agree with Keyes because if we fail to clear out Congress in 2010 and God forbid Obama is re-elected in 2012, our Republic will be reduced to a socialist state. However, I sense a growing groundswell of popular opinion against Obama and Congress and If he is re-elected I could see an armed insurrection or coupe taking him out of office.


86 posted on 02/22/2009 3:10:14 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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