“Ambassador, I’m going to ask you one more time. Have you personally been doing campaign events here in Iowa in the last few months?”
“I have had several campaign events here in Iowa, but I will not define those events as you do,” he said.
“In the last few months?”
“I don’t define those events as you do."
Keyes response reminds me of Bill Clinton asking for the definition of the word is.
Tas wondered if Keyes is even on the ballot in any state.
If Keyes wants to play, he's got a right to run, but to be elevated on the same stage with candidates who -- like'em or not -- have put actual effort into their campaigns is a travesty. Before Keyes debate, somebody should have asked "Where's his organization? Supporters? Donaters? Hell, does he have a campaign office?"
The fact that the American Enterprise Institute let Keyes and John Bolton through the door says much about the think tank.
Update: I confused Barack Obama with Alan Keyes in a sentence. I will make sure that never happens again.
To answer Tas's question: Keyes and Bolton both have been members of AEI. I doubt AEI got Keyes into the debate.
Like eeveryone else: Andrew Sullivan wonders how the hell did Barack Obama got in the recent Iowa debate?
ReplyDeleteYou're getting your brothers mixed up. Though if Obama got into the GOP debate in Iowa, that would have been friggen hilarious.
And it was AEI that let Keyes into the debate? ANdhere I thought it was a problem with the MSM... But if it was a conservative organization that let him in, thissituation becomes really weird.
I wondered if Keyes even had a website.. It turns out that his campaign does. (It looks like it was designed in 1999.. Somebody needs to tell Keyes that blogs on campaign websites are huge these days.) It turns out that Keyes has been running and tried getting into previous debates but was shut out of them.. Probably because his candidacy is so marginally and even political wonks like you, me, and Andrew Sullivan wonder just where the hell he came from.