Alan Keyes Speaks -- Listen up! (or is he also racist?)
By thedogshrink
@thedogshrink (1266)
United States
February 23, 2009 6:57am CST
Please read the article and watch the video. Alan Keyes is no hooligan or run of the mill pundit. He is a former Ambassador to the UN, a scholar, and has been a candidate for President. He also ran against Obama in the IL Senate race. He's a very intelligent and well educated person. He is also one of the petitioners on a lawsuit that is still waiting to be heard, demanding Obama prove he is eligible to hold this office of President.
I am mildly surprised now to hear such people as Mr Keyes, being so blunt in their statements to the press lately -- they do have something to lose from speaking out of turn.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89612
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Feb 09
Keyes is just part of a growing number of people who are now openly voicing anger against a continuing trend of circumvenions of the principals of our founders and the constitution. While I'm still not completely sold on his not being a citizen, I am long sold on the fact that he is not governing as he should and neither is the rest of the lot. The snowball is now beginning to roll down hill and we all know when that happens, you can't stop it it will gather more snow as it goes. We are just getting warmed up people and we haven't seen anything yet.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
24 Feb 09
We are just getting warmed up people and we haven't seen anything yet.
Yep. And it about time if you ask me....well really way past time but I guess later is better than never.
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
23 Feb 09
It seems to me Alan Keyes has already lost it all. He lost a chance at a senate seat to Barack Obama and then he lost any chance he had to become the first African American president of the US to Barack Obama. That's got to be good for some sour grapes.
According to Factcheck.org at the University of Pennsylvania, the Obama birth certificate is authentic:
"Recently FactCheck representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it's stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka (who uses a signature stamp rather than signing individual birth certificates). We even brought home a few photographs."...this info can be checked out at factcheck.org.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
23 Feb 09
I think factcheck is lying. The BC is sealed and has been for quite some time.
Hawaii has refused to allow access to it.
There are at least 3 legal firms involved to ensure the BC is not made public.
How did factcheck get access, when even the federal court that ordered the 0bamunist to produce it was unsuccessful?
Factcheck is connected to the 0bamunist in case you were unaware of that fact... so of course they would say anything to support his lies.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
23 Feb 09
He probably wouldn't have lost if he had the money and corruption on his side like President Obama had.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
23 Feb 09
The birth certificate they examined is the one that Obama's headquarters has in Chicago and that was posted on the internet. People seem to be convinced that it is not authentic by looking at the scans (I would never appraise a book for a client from a scan) so factcheck sent people to Chicago to look at it and photograph it and put the pics on their web site. They say it looks authentic to them. It has the proper embosed stamp and the correct signature.
No, I was not aware of factcheck.org being run by Obama's people. As far as I'm aware, it's run by the University of Pennsylvania and in my neck of the woods that is as good as it gets. Maybe you should tell the Republican politicos who use it to verify their info that it is run by Obama's people. But they would probably require proof.
Proof is also going to have to accompany Alan Keyes to court. He's charging that Obama's mother gave birth in Kenya. Where is the passport proof? Where is the Kenyan birth proof? Unless those things accompany this last ditch effort to prove the unprovable, it will be just another lawsuit without merit and it will be thrown out like all of the others. From the Philadelphia appelate court to the Supreme Court one meritless law suit after another has been tossed out over this birth certificate brouhaha. It's starting to get costly for the taxpayers.
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@ladyluna (7004)
• United States
24 Feb 09
Hello Mntlward,
Please do your due diligence. The Hawaiian Director of Health, the Registrar of Vital Statistics and Gov. Lingle are on record confirming only that Obama's birth certificate is on file. Which equates to a non-statement!
[i]"HONOLULU — The state’s Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate.
The state has received multiple requests for a copy of Obama’s birth certificate. State law does not allow officials to release the birth certificate of a person to someone outside of the family. …
“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record,” DOH Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said.
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures. No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai‘i,” Fukino said."[/i]
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=hawaiian+governor+states+that+they+have+obama%27s+official+birth+certificate&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=Free+Copies+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7COrder+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificate%3C%2FKW%3E%7CCopies+of+Original+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fracecardpoliticswatch.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F01%2Flittle-green-footballs-hawaii-state-verifies-obama-birth-certificate%2F
So, how (exactly) has the state of Hawaii confirmed that Obama was born there, and thus meets the Constitutional requirement of "natural born citizen"?
@ladyluna (7004)
• United States
24 Feb 09
No MntlWard, quite the contrary!!!
Every argument thus far has declared nearly identical summaries: the differences between a Certificate of Live Birth and a Certified Birth certificate are as night and day. The 2007 short-form, copy that Obama posted on The Kos (whether it is a forgery as some suggest, or not) does not indicate the place of birth, or the name of the attending physician. Without those two pieces of information Obama's citizenship status cannot be ascertained.
Read back through the many discussions that I have posted or responded to on this matter and you will see ABSOLUTE CONSISTENCY on the legal issues surrounding this Constitutional crisis!!!
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Alan Keyes is exactly right.
Until such a time as the 0bamunist produces his birth certificate and irrefutable proof that he is eligible to be president, then I do not recognize him.
I consider him to be an usurper who should be removed from the office that he was fraudulently elected to.
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@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
24 Feb 09
Alan Keyes has my vote. He is right on. He is bold, and he is not afraid to speak his mind. Of all the people we could have had for president, we end up with Obama. We could have had someone like Alan Keyes, Bobby Jindal, or Sarah Palin. Instead, the masses vote for Obama who is afraid to show his hand...birth certificate or not, we are beginning to see it.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Good for Alan Keys, I would have defiantly voted for the right black man...
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@ladyluna (7004)
• United States
23 Feb 09
Hello Dogshrink,
Thank you for posting this critical issue!
I believe that far too many people forget that Alan Keyes is a respected former U.N. Ambassador, former US State Department Assistant Secretary of State (a very impressive, highly successful career with the State Dept), and a scholar. I also believe that far too many people are willing to lump Allen Keyes in as whatever hateful names and tags they choose to represent people who vehemently disagree with and disaprove of Obama and the socialist agenda BECAUSE they have no idea that Amb. Keyes is a Black Conservative. Geeze, maybe he's racist in the same way that Condoleeza Rice, Michael Steele, or Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson are racist???
For anyone who doesn't know who Rev. Peterson is:
www.bondinfo.org/
In addition to Alan Keyes having something to lose by publicly calling Obama to the mat on this shameful disregard of the US Constitution, so too does Sen. Richard Shelby have much to lose by calling this administration out from behind the coattails of the expensive legal firms (not just individual lawyers) that have been hired to quash every legitimate court challenge to Obama's citizenship status.
I believe that when these high-profile citizens join the growing clamor for Obama to surrender his official, long-form birth certificate, that the pressure will eventually become insurmountable. Geesh, Pravda, the Russian media outlet has even raised the legitimacy of this new adminstration because Obama has not followed the letter of our Constitutional law. When we begin taking Constitutional Law lessons from Russia, it's really time to re-think the path that we're pursuing -- GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
"Senator questions Obama eligibility"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89704
"Pravda explains that Obama's "certificate of birth" is not a birth certificate, but a certification of live birth that any foreigner can acquire by applying for one in the state's vital records department, regardless of where the baby was born."
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=pravda+questions+obama+birth+certificate+&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=Free+Copies+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CObtaining+a+Copy+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CMake+a+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificate%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomeden.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fobamas-birth-certificate.html
"However, amid skeptical reports, the New American reported, "This story has gained credence, separating it from Internet rumors, because Obama has reputedly hired three law firms (firms, not lawyers) to make sure that no one gets access to his birth records in Hawaii or his college transcripts from Occidental College and Harvard."
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=pravda+questions+obama+birth+certificate+&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=Free+Copies+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CObtaining+a+Copy+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CMake+a+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificate%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomeden.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fobamas-birth-certificate.html
Pravda question Obama birth certificate
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=pravda+questions+obama+birth+certificate+&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=Free+Copies+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CObtaining+a+Copy+of+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificates%3C%2FKW%3E%7CMake+a+%3CKW%3EBirth+Certificate%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=3&u=http%3A%2F%2Fengforum.pravda.ru%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D233941
Barack Obama, if you have nothing to hide, then quit hiding behind your lawyers and finally surrender to the mandates of our Constitution. RELEASE YOUR ORIGINAL, LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
23 Feb 09
I won't say he's a racist because I'm not one who likes to play that card at every turn but I do think he is and always has been a right-wing extremist who will say or do anything to bring President Obama down. I think he's very dangerous, to be honest. I'm not saying he would personally resort to violence or come right out and advocate anyone else doing so but his words could easily be taken the wrong way by others who are intend on "stopping" or even "getting rid of" Obama.
Annie
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
23 Feb 09
He doesn't have enough clout to be dangerous. I don't think he's always been a right wing extremist. I've voted for him a few times. This last election I just think he went off the deep end. I figure maybe he got sick of being ignored and decided going to the extreme might get him a little extra publicity. It won't.
He might have had a better shot in the long run if he'd tried to get into elected office elsewhere before running for president. His senate run against Obama was guaranteed to fail and aside from that he hasn't run for any other office besides the presidency since 1992.
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@thedogshrink (1266)
• United States
24 Feb 09
TSKR or Annie == what are y'all referring to about this last election and Keyes going off the deep end and being extreme, etc? I must have missed something there.
I have not known him to be an extreme right winger.
I think most of the time his runs for office are more to make a point than to actually win -- not that he wouldn't like to win, but just wouldn't expect to.
I'll wait to comment further til I know what Y'all are referring to.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
9 Mar 09
I don't think someone like him NEEDS a lot of "clout" to be dangerous, Taskr, with all due respect. All it would take is for the wrong crazy or group of crazies to interpret his words about Obama needing to be stopped as encouragement to commit a horrible act of violence.
Annie
