A black Don Knotts?....very good!
Unlike Don Knotts, Alan Keyes would have a hard time being elected deputy sheriff! LOL
Maybe, but Obama makes Keyes look like Hannibal Lecter.
Yeah, he did that reeeeeeeeeeaal well in the Senate race. The trouble was that Alan ended up cast as Goober.
Godwin's Rule, Gomer's Rule? Something like that...
Maybe, but in ‘04, Obama made Alan look like Rachel Corrie.
It’s amazing how many FReepers these days seem to like Barack Obama more than Alan Keyes, a man who has represented the principles of FR more consistently than anyone else.
Good allusion
Ping!
Has Keyes ever won an elective office?....
This is soooo funny. We have Obama today because of AmbASSador Keyes cartoonish failed attempt at carpetbagging the Illinois senate election against Obama.
Keyes should continue doing voiceovers for Marvin the Martian cartoons and forget trying to be a 21st Century Harold Stassen.
Dr. Keyes is wonderful. Almost sublime in his expressiveness and command of the issues and the language.
The media treated Alan Keyes as invisible when he ran for president. They were afraid someone would say the words “first black president”.
When Obama entered the race, they all said “first black president”.
The media treated Condi Rice as dirt. They were afraid someone would say the words “first black woman president”.
Rice never entered the race.
That is the same Alan Keyes who already helped solidify the demise of the impudent Illinois GOP in his Illinois Senator run against the empty suit? Watching him run and get destroyed in Illinois then gave me the mixed emotions of embarrassment, humor, anger, sadness, and disgust.
Every time I hear Alan keyes speak, I am impressed with his intelligence and his command of historical and constitutional knowledge. I do not know why the republican party has never offered him the support one would need to win an election, probably because they prefer a puppet like John Mccain.
Unfortunately Alan Keyes’ presentation is not the greatest, he appears to talk down to others. I feel he is probably as intelligent as William Buckley; Mr. Buckley had a way of making his opposition like him, Mr. Keyes seems to have a way of exasperating his compatriots. It is unfortunate that most can not get past his presentation and see that what he is presenting is good.
LOL! I hadn’t thought of Don Knotts for years and years. But there’s definitely a resemblance!
The media treatment of the Keyes vs. Obama senatorial campaign was analogous to the media treatment of the near-simultaneous deaths of Mother Theresa and Lady Diana. The world knows its own, as do the worldly.
There’s a video of the intro and Alan Keyes’ speech at http://youtube.com/watch?v=7KMceMU243k