Slave Master Obama and Cowardly Kerry

Few people can raise my anger like Alan Keyes can. He is a perfect example of a man willing to prostitute his intellect for political gain and the hope to keep company with the Republican "movers and shakers" in Washington. As one of the few Black Republicans out there, he has ran for the senate seat in his home state of Maryland twice and lost, and also lost his bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. Perhaps one of the reasons he lost was that his ideology is like the Republican parties mission statement: Lower taxes on the wealthy, anti-abortion, anti-birthcontrol, privatized health care and Social Security, etc etc...In fact his one, if not exactly original at least different, policy was the repeal of the income tax. A policy that ,while I may not exactly agree with it, I believe we could use more discussion on the possibility of tax reform.

Nonetheless...

Keyes hypocrisy has stunk to high heaven. Personally, I find a Black Republican a disdainful person whom I usually suspect of self-loathing. The party of Lincoln in the last hundred or so years has done little for the plight of minorities, the disfranchised or the poor. FDR, a Democrat, had the new deal, LBJ, a Democrat, the civil rights amendment, and Bill Clinton, yes a Democrat, had the longest era of economic prosperity and growth then any president before him. To me it seems that for minorities to affiliate themselves with a group that does damage and harm to them shows some sort of pathological dysfunction, or they are political mercenaries getting paid to be token members, or in Keyes' case, I think its a mix of both.

Now this Merc has been chosen by the RNC to run against Barack Obama in the Illinois senate race now that the incumbent Rep senator, Jack Ryan, had to drop out because a sex scandal. Of course the RNC had to chose a black canidate since the popular Obama, who made the DNC's keynote address this year, has now insured--through this popularity--that this seat will be taken by an African-American. (This would be the 5th time an Afro-American has held a senate position.)

Of course with SO many Black Republicans to choose from its no wonder that the RNC would choose Keyes: an habitual election loser, with the vision of a myoptic bat.

Prepare for an election full of hypocrisy and lies stemming from the Keyes campaign. For starters Keyes, who's home state is Maryland, will have to move his residency to Illinois, and is working on doing that as I write. However in a statement Keyes gave to Pat Buchanan in a 2000 Fox News Channel interview, he says of Hillary Clinton's move to New York from Arkansas to seek senate office there:

"I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it,"

Now this week Keyes' parallels Obama to a "slaveholder," because Obama voted against a bill that would have outlawed late terms abortions. It is days into this election, Keyes still hasn't gained Illinois residency, and already he is setting a tone of racially inspired negativity. This comment is incredibly ironic since they are both black Americans, and Keyes is the party of former Rep Senate leader Trent Lott who showed a real "slaveholder's" position when he commented that the United States would have been better off had Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948. Thurmond, if you haven't heard by now, didn't really like blacks--except for those black women who worked for him--and ran on a pro-segregationist platform.


Another thing that tics me off to no end has been this smear campaign against John Kerry's war record from the Bush campaign. These types of tactics should be of no surprise to us though. These are the same people who ran ads against Max Cleland, a Vietnam vet who lost two legs and an arm in the war, featuring him with Saddam and Bin Laden, and who did push-polling against John McCain in the 2000 election, asking voters would they be more or less likely to vote for McCain if he fathered an illigament black child. A totally unfounded charge, with tremendous racial undertones. (The calls went to southern white males--is it no wonder Keyes is a Republican!) No amount of bleach could ever get out the grime that the RNC has proven time and time again that they're willing to sling.

The latest in the parade of turds is a series of attack ads against Kerry featuring men who "served" with Kerry that say that he has embellished and lied about his war record. One of these men, Lt. Cmdr. George Elliott, retired, who had recommended Kerry for his Silver Star, defended Kerry in his 1996 Senate re-election campaign saying, "The fact that he chased an armed enemy down is something not to be looked down upon, but it was an act of courage." Then two days ago he signed an affidavit recanting that previous statement saying that Kerry earned the medal by shooting a fleeing, wounded Viet Cong in the back.

Wait for it...wait for it...

When questioned about this recanting by the Boston Globe Elliot says, "I still don't think he shot the guy in the back...It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words."

This guy does more waffling then an IHOP.

The danger in all of this goes beyond the fact that people, who may hear the charge and never the recant (of the recant?) may base their voting decision either fully on something like this or partially on something like this. Recently I've even heard rumors of people saying that he shot himself to get out of Vietnam and received a Purple Heart for it. (Actually he earned three...does that mean he shot himself three times? Boy, he must have sucked at target practice!) We need to wise up to the tactics of the media and the RNC right now. It seems that there's no limit to the level they will stoop to, and the as long was we keep entertaining these falsehood their will continue to be told, and construed as fact.