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Alan Keyes, Obama Birth Certificate Obsessive, Arrested On Charges Of Trespassing

One-time presidential candidate, failed MSNBC talk show host, and U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Keyes was one of 22 people arrested this morning on charges of trespassing. The group--26 in total--had convened to protest President Barack Obama's upcoming commencement speech at Notre Dame University.

Anti-abortion groups have been livid ever since the Catholic school invited Obama (who is pro-choice) to address this years graduating class a couple months ago, and the fact that, as part of the arrangement, Obama will receive an honorary degree has, in their minds, added insult to injury.

Without questioning the sincerity of most of these protestors, it's worth pointing out that Keyes may have a wee bit of a score to settle. It was Obama, after all, who defeated Keyes in that 2004 Senate race, and in recent months he's been on a one man campaign to "prove" that Obama isn't a "natural born citizen."


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Please throw the key away and raise to bail so he can't be released. Wait...use The Patriot Act and declare him "an ememy combatant" and rendition his ass.

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Excellent suggestion. Keyes is pathetic just like the rest of the wingnuts.

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You mean to tell me that Notre Dame only gives degrees to students who are "pro life"? You mean no "pro choice" students receive degrees from Notre Dame?

Wow... that's pretty much amazing.

However did I earn my three degrees from a Catholic college?

Musta pulled the ol' sheepskin right over their eyes, eh?

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LOL! The problem is actually that the nut cases get all of the press in cases like this thanks to the conservative echo chamber of Drudge/Politico/Fox News.

BTW, Keyes is pro-death penalty and defended attacking Iraq ... so much for the culture of "life"!

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There are only two kinds of US citizens: natural born and naturalized. Since Obama never jumped through the immigration hoops and took a citizenship test, etc to become naturalized, he must be natural born.

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You are sort of right. It does seem that natural born does contrast with naturalized, but one does not have to jump through hoops or take a test to become citizen. Quite likely, for example, John McCain became a citizen by an act of Congress making a whole group citizens. Congress sets the rules for naturalization and they don't have to be complex. Actually either Obama is natural born or he is not a citizen at all. (Hint: he is a citizen.)

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Keyes is pro-death penalty and defended the Iraq war calling Obama ignorant for not ackowledging a supposed-link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

Tell me how THAT squares with the Catholic church and the Pope's positions?

Keyes is the perfect example of single-issue demogauging conservatism who is suffering for a terminal case of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

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Answer: It squares just fine with the Catholic Church, which hides pedophiles and loves George Bush. They don't even have the honor to be embarrassed by their hypocrisy. This whole thing IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - a corrupt, disgustingly wealthy organization that preys on its poorest.

Yep! It squares just fine with their "beliefs."

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I was surprised quite a while ago to learn that the Knights of Columbus is mostly a big insurance company.  Kinda like AARP.

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Does anyone know if Michael Steele and Alan Keyes have ever been seen in the same place at the same time? I mean,come on. Put a toupee on Mike and what do you have? Alan Keyes. Am I right here?

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Hat. Don't forget Michael's hat. That's how they roll in the northeast, you know!

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Let's wait and see if he empathizes his own ass right outta prison. Then we'll know.

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LOL !

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I thought a butterfly net would be a more appropriate fashion accessory for Keyes.

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So Keyes was arrested? That must mean he plans to run for president on the Republican ticket again. Since their arrest records "worked" for Shrub and Cheney when they ran. Seems to be a requirement for the Repubs. Guess Sarah The Scarecrow ("If I Only Had A Brain") Palin is working on her arrest plans. You betcha! ;-)

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Rant, rant - Another case of the Republican Crucifixion – Name calling, petty snide comments – all so elementary in thought and delivery. You know this gets so tiring – There is no shortage of village idiots, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Joe Biden – Just don’t forget that there are enough to go around so recognize that it’s time for TERM LIMITS. It’s time for the common man to take back our government from career politicians

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Yes, we can see from your user profile that you always take a tough stand against petty name calling and childish criticism.

LOL.

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its really a shame that a blk man has to pretend to be a republican to get some attention.

these same people he makes a living off up would be supplying the rope a few years back.

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Holy shit these wingnuts are going crazy! They are chewing the carpet nuts and it's just getting worse by the day.
Over at the Washington-Moonie-Times they were going ape over President O's massive failure on the prayer front. He was called the AntiChrist no less for failing to invite the Holy of Holyrollers to a great prayer summit. Between that and advocating empathy next he'll be Baelzabub Obama. note to wingnuts: If you rip that off check the spelling. Wouldn't want to misspell the name of the beast from the bottomless pit of fire or whatever.

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He used to be a talk show host on MSNBC!??? WHAT THE HELL!

Alan Keyes was beaten by Obama so badly there were precints where he got ZERO VOTES. ZERO VOTES.

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Even in Illinois, negative vote numbers might seem a bit unusual, otherwise I think we'd have seen those!

I say that as an ex-Chicaoan who's probably still voting in a few precincts there...

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Alan Keyes is about the best wingnut there is. Michele Bachmann? Feh - she sounds sane compared to Alan. He's completely unhinged. He's batshit. He's blogging gold.

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Come on people...Can't a black man get in a civil rights protest these days? He's just marching against the man. You dig? (Key the Curtis Mayfield music).

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At least for some of these wingnuts, the birth certificate issue has run out of steam and they've moved on to more important issues--like hamburger condiments.

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Not so much...We, the Illinois Citizens Grand Jury, indicted your Messiah last Saturday on mulitple counts, including fraud and deception. Sorry to burst your bubble, dude. Time for the hibernating bears to wake up. Amazing what the LIBERAL MSM isn't reporting.

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Is this the same group who issued an arrest warrant for Barbie because she was speeding in her Corvette?

Can't imagine why you're not making the MSM . . .

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Mwahaahaahaahahaha!

MadeinAmerica, you've got to be better at posting links to this stuff, not all of us are in the loop!

I googled "Illinois Citizens Grand Jury" and got this:

http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/?p=593

OMFG!! Great reading, especially the comments!

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Those people are nutz!!!!!!

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A minor point of order for "MADinAmerica";
You indicted Obama last Saturday? If so, you were the only judicial activity, to my knowledge, to occur on a weekend.

BTW, Carl Sagan, in reference to UFO's & extraterrestrials, said: "Extraordinary claims call for extraordinary proof." You claim that Obama is really Barry Soreto, and was born in Kenya?
Where's your proof? A Kenyan birth certificate? Birth announcements in the local newspaper? Passport stamps for his mom coming from Kenya to the US? Come on, put up or shut up. Obama is the presdident, voted for not by a few "left wingers" but the majority of the population. So quit your carping and provide some PROOF!

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Who's the prosecutor? Puff the Magic Dragon?

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Oh, this is so sad. No, really, it's sad. Read the comments over there at the link another poster was kind enough to add: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/?p=593. These people think they're setting up some sort of alternate, shadow government that does or could have real power. (Which makes a pretty strong case for reintroducing Civics 101 into our public school system--plainly, it's been jettisoned from the curriculum.) Hmmmm....an "alternate" government to go with the "alternate" reality in which these sad, ignorant people live. I'm embarrassed for them, even if they aren't embarrassed for themselves.

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Keyes is a nut job? Is being paranoid a quality needed to be a member of the GOP?

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No, no, no! Do NOT lock up Keyes or any of the other lunatics. The more they are seen in the sunlight, the more ludicrous they look and the more they can be tied to the failed conservative movement (and the GOP) the better.

Let the sunshine in, indeed!

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Republicans are pathetic, the more Limbough, Beck, Chenny, Hannity, OReily, Lou Doubs, etc. open their mouths the more Americans will live this sick party.
So, let them talk.
We as Americans must look only forward and make the changes the country needs; during the next election cycle we must give the final blow to this sick party and on the way kick out a bunch of Democrat politicians. We haven't finished yet.
Electing Obama was only a downpayment.

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Keyes is totally in sync with Keyes,,,,,,, hey it's hard work being a sole solitary soul.

Given B16's satement earlier this week to the effect that neither Church nor State may dictate to the University, Keyes needs to get aligned with Rome's teaching before he goes out in public and makes a horses patootie of himself. He might also profit from finding out what a secular constitutional Republic is all about.

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Don't forget that serious konservative kommentator Bill Kristol's only 'real' political job was being Keyes' campaign advisor...because he was his old college roommate.

No wonder people know the fix is in, because that would normally be a real resume-killer, hmm?

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I really have no interest in Keyes, Obama speaking at Notre Dame or the honorary degree. I am a registered Independent.
The birth certificate issue does puzzle me however. By Obama refusing to release his actual birth certificate and other records he is fueling the fire.
If he would just cough this stuff up for all to see, then he would shut up the "wingnuts". Or, does he have something to hide?

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Refusing to release his birth certificate? It's on his website! http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate

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Don't you know how this works? Anything that debunks what they want to believe is clearly a Martian forgery!

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It wouldn't matter what documents Obama offered, these nutcases would just call it a forgery. The state of Hawaii has verified that Obama's birth certificate is valid and that is all that is required. To do more would be giving in to the demands of some obsessed and bitter people who made up this pathetic conspiracy because they can't accept they lost an election. Nothing Obama could offer would change their mind.

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Are you Obots paid by the late great "O"? You all pop up everywhere with the same talking points. Alan Keyes is a great American. He's just not a communist, so you spew your hate for his stand on America. Your goD "O" is not really President he can't be. He was born a British Citizen because his father was a British Citizen. A British Citizen is not, and can never be, a Natural Born American. No, citizen and Natural Born Citizen are not the same thing. Our founding fathers knew this when they, knowing they were not Natural Born Americans, added language to the new Constitution that allowed them to be elected President,"---unless you are a citizen at the signing of this Constitution." Simple "citizens" that were citizens before the Constitution was signed were the only simple citizens ever allowed to be President without being Natural Born Americans. All people becoming an American citizen after the day the Constitution was signed had to be born on American Soil and have two (2) parents that were American Citizens at his birth, to be considered a Natural Born American and have the right to be President. Barack Hussein Obama Jr.does not meet these requirements. He is not and can never be President.

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(Obama) was born a British Citizen because his father was a British Citizen.

And his mother was a US citizen and he was born in Hawaii.

Or to put it in terms you might understand: tthhhhhppppttt!!!

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According to this nutter's logic, I'm a Swedish citizen, Dwight Eisenhower was a German citizen, and the great Ronald Reagan was an Irish citizen. Needless to say, he doesn't really grasp any of the "nuances" of citizenship law.

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Nothing like a birther story to get the loons banging on their keyboards.

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old1:
You could not be more wrong. You could try, but you would not be successful. Your statement:

"All people becoming an American citizen after the day the Constitution was signed had to be born on American Soil and have two (2) parents that were American Citizens at his birth, to be considered a Natural Born American and have the right to be President."

That's not what the Constitution says. Article 2, Section 1, Para. 5:

"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of the President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States."

Those are the only qualifications mentioned. NOWHERE does it have anything requiring BOTH (or even one parent) parents to be citizens. If that were the case, are you sure Payush (Bobby Jindal) is eligible?

As to being born on American soil, no court or ruling has decreed exactly what that means. But certainly, having been born in Hawaii, at that time a state, confers "natural born citizenship" to Obama. Even children born to illegal aliens are considered natural born citizens IF they crossed the border into the US. Your point about "American soil" is 1)an assertion, disproved by actually READING the Constitution and 2)Actually met by Obama, since he was born in Hawaii.

BTW, by your standards, John McCain would not have been eligible, since he was born in the Panama Canal zone (yet not in a military hospital or on a military base). The proof of this? The Congress passed a resolution DECLARING him to be eligible. (If he were already a natural born citizen, they wouldn't have had to do this, would they?)

You can't just make shit up!!! It's too easy to check & double check info on the web.

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Crazy Keyes has every to protest. And I think it's great that he doesn't have to protest against flagrant war criminals speaking at universities. You go, Al! Say whatever the fuck is on your crazy pin head.

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I meant:
Crazy Keyes has every RIGHT to protest. And I think it's great that he doesn't have to protest against flagrant war criminals speaking at universities. You go, Al! Say whatever the fuck is on your crazy pin head.

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You need to focus on living a healthy life instead of obsessing on irrational conspiracies about Obama. The medications do work if you take them regularly.

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Sorry that was in reply to old1's rant.

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I am proud of Alan Keyes and the rest of the protestors for standing up for what is right. Since the the President of Notre Dame is going against the dogma of the Catholic Church someone has to speak for the moral teachings of the Church. Obama is the anithesis of what a Catholic should be. Fr. Jenkins needs to be fired and Notre Dame needs to hire a President who stands up for Catholic moral teachings and does not give into his opinions. The Catholic Church's most dear social issues have to do with the culture of life, and promoting the anti-abortion agenda. Obama goes against this philosophy and it is the Catholic Church's position that no politician regardless of being Catholic or not who is pro-abortion should be honored in any way. So I hope the protests really heat up outside of Notre Dame up until Obama leaves the campus. It is our right as Americans to protest and would have Notre dame have called the police had it been an anti-war protest? Probably not because there is such a double standard in our society today.
Obama needs to lay this birth certificate issue at rest. He could do this by releasing a copy of it. What would he have to hide that he has a whole legal team devoted to fighting the birth certificates release? If Obama has nothing to hide than he needs to release his birth certificate. Or he needs to relinquish his being acting President and let an actual U.S.citizen be President. Obama kept from the public the one person who could verify where his birth took place, his grandmother. Now we may never know because of her passing away. WE as citizens of the U.S. have both the obligation and the right to know whether we have a legitimate President or not. He was most likely born in Kenya, where his father was born.So we have an illegitimate President until he proves otherwise.

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I hope the cops treat Keyes like a Bagrahm inmate. You need to get your tinfoil helmet refitted, as you sound a little, ummm, certifiable.

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A little? This one's probably got "Defective" stamped on her forehead.

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It is our right as Americans to protest and would have Notre dame have called the police had it been an anti-war protest? Probably not because there is such a double standard in our society today.

Yeah, because anti-war protesters are never, EVER arrested.

Obama needs to lay this birth certificate issue at rest. He could do this by releasing a copy of it.

No he doesn't, and it's so much fun to watch you loons waste your time with this nonsense.

So we have an illegitimate President until he proves otherwise.

Mmm, ineffectual statements from delusional whackos are tasty!

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For a full understanding of how the catholic church longs for the old days, please
refer to the Secret Files of The Inquisition,
http://www.pbs.org/inquisition/

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Hey, moron, it's posted on his website!!! Unless you want to maintain that that one's a forgery.

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BTW, how do you explain this:

"French President Nicholas Sarkozy received the title of honorary canon of the Basilica of St. John Lateran during his visit to Rome in 2007, a tradition that goes back centuries. Sarkozy, who also met Pope Benedict, supports legal abortion. The Vatican and the Diocese of Rome seemed to have no problem with honoring the twice-divorced Sarkozy, who says he is a Catholic."

So an adulterer and pro-choice Sarkozy can be honored by the Vatican and meet the Pope, but pro-choice Obama isn't good enough to get an honorary degree from Notre Dame? Please explain.

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What needs to be proven is obama's eligibiltiy! He fights to keep his long form birth certificate sealed. What he provides to the public is a document that even the State of Hawaii does not accept.

obama is a fruad and will be thrown in jail WHEN this all comes out.

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So where is the birth certificate? Please don't hand me any BS about the forgery posted during the campaign. Where is the real one that every "other" American has?

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