Comments on: Keyes promises inflammatory comments!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Obama must be kind of insulted that this is the best they could come up with.

By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m suspect Obama isn’t insulted. He’s 99.9% certain to be elected. He has commented that he misses the press because they all seem to be spending time trying to capture Keyes quotes.

By: trey

trey — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It almost seems to me that the Republicans must have _wanted_ Obama to win the election, why else would they choose a nutcase like Keyes in an obviously condescending gesture of racial politics.

Maybe they didn’t want to show that Obama would have won even if they fielded a half-way normal candidate.

By: tevye/motel

tevye/motel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i have to agree with trey here, except to say that Keyes’ purpose is not to beat Obama — we can all be fairly certain this this will not come to pass in this universe. His purpose is to provide the seeds of doubt in the Democratic electorate. His mission, as always (see his deplorable history of attacking sanctions on apartheid South Africa), is to be the black talking head for conservative talking points. Regarding Obama, I think that he can only be both insulted and not a little bemused that this strategy is robbing him of a meaty, substantive election battle. As for Keyes, I can only hope that whatever deal with the devil that he made is worth further cheapening him as a man.

By: Sheelzebub

Sheelzebub — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Finally! A promise from a candidate that is sure to be kept!

By: NancyP

NancyP — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Keyes is there to be a lawn jockey. Not to say anything, just to be able to hold him up in future when the undecideds or the liberals say, but the Republican party doesn’t support African-American politicians. The likelihood of his failure (anyone would fail in this particular contest) is a plus for the R party. Rs get points, don’t have to yield power.

But I do look forward to more entertainment from my normally justifiably smug neighbors to the east.

By: ChgoRed

ChgoRed — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What I like is the throwaway line at the end, where Keyes mentions his opposition to direct election of senators. The irony is just too much.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Uh, how is tossing toy soldiers into a meat grinder evidence of a great future general? As far as I can tell, all that accomplishes is destroying your toys. What a dumb kid he must have been.

By: CE Petro

CE Petro — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Be careful of Keyes. He was a member of the Council for (of) National Policy, a who’s who of religious right leaders, financiers and politicians and quite secretive. While he is not on their most recently reported membership (I think that goes back to 2002 or so), he is still closely aligned with a number of the past and present members.
He’s expected to lose, but that loss will be a “rally cry” for the extreme right to gather together in IL. JMHO

By: David Weisman

David Weisman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think the key purpose for the Republicans is to slime Obama - not thinking they will defeat him, but just so in his political future he won’t have a past when nobody said anything bad about him.

Keyey main purpose may be to get a lot of attention. He seems to be succeeding, we can only hope his purpose will conflict with the purposes of his Republican sponsors to their detriment.

By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

>>He’s expected to lose, but that loss will be a “rally cry” for the extreme right to gather together in IL. JMHO

I’d agree that seems to be his goal.

I’m disappointed again.. no outrageous statements reported by the Chicago tribune today!