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Alan Keyes: President Obama is ‘the living incarnation of the glamour of evil’

Gee, I think tossing your daughter out of the family home because she came out of the closet is the epitome of evil. Alan Keyes, on his blog “Alan Keyes is LOYAL TO LIBERTY,” has a frothing-at-the-mouth post about Notre Dame’s invitation to the president to speak and receive an honorary degree. The failed U.S. Senate and presidential candidate cannot believe his former rival, the “child sacrifice” advocate in the White House, will darken the door of the Catholic university.

Apparently the Catholic folks at Notre Dame University have no more respect for the Baptismal vows they renew every Easter than their invited Commencement Speaker this year has for the Presidential Oath of Office. At this moment in time, Barack Obama is the living incarnation of the glamour of evil. His smiley tones and non-threatening manner mask a studied commitment to the promotion of the most deadly form of evil in the world today- the cult of abortion centered on the ritual of child sacrifice. Obama has moved with impetuous determination to prove his claim to the mantle of High Priest of the Worldwide Abortion cult. With Executive orders he has shifted the resources of the U.S. government behind the global implementation of abortion. He has declared open season on embryonic human life. He has appointed enthusiastic political and judicial acolytes of this cult of death to high positions in the Executive and Judicial branches.

Even before these actions there was no rational basis for pretending to doubt his absolute commitment to the evil of abortion for its own sake. There can be no other explanation for his opposition, while an Illinois state Senator, to the bipartisan effort in the legislature to end the heinous practice of infanticide against innocent babies- delivered in the course of an abortion attempt; wrapped in soiled linens; and left on a cart to languish without medical care or any human comfort until they died. His only real explanation for refusing to support an end to this abominable practice was the cold-blooded logic that any interference with the mother’s intention to kill the child would damage so-called abortion rights.

...Barack Obama is the incarnation of what the Catholic Church identifies as the epitome of evil in the world today. What Notre Dame has done puts the stamp of Catholicity upon him, as if there is no absolute contradiction between what he advocates and represents and what can honorably be presented from platforms that benefit from the auspices of the Church. A Commencement speech represents a word spoken at the beginning of a new stage of life. In the literal sense it represents a principle for thought and action. Are we seriously to believe that some morally truthful argument can be made that justifies presenting Barack Obama in a Catholic context, as one who speaks for decent moral principle? It is sophomoric to suggest that any good thing he promises, promotes or even implements can compensate for his declared war upon the very principle of goodness, which is nowhere more clearly at stake than in the law of love that shrouds, protects and sanctifies our reverence for innocent human life. What Catholic theology makes good the rationalization that good works somehow supply the deficiency of a spirit and will that in the innocent person of the child, defile and abuse the very image of God Himself?

You can surf over to read the rest of the womb-controlling rant; the hypocrisy of his touting of pious familiy values is astounding, given what he’s said and done in his own family.

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 12:52 PM • (55) Comments

Wow! It’s like Alan Keyes has been to my house on a Saturday, which is the day I and my friends all get our weekly abortions, and then come back to my place to mock the now-dead babies on a Ouija board and have hot lesbian sex right on top of pictures of James Dobson. Then we pray to Obama, as any good Abortion Cultists should be doing at least once a day. HOW DID HE KNOW?!

Comment #1: F. McGee  on  03/29  at  01:01 PM

which is the day I and my friends all get our weekly abortions,

FETUS MARTINIS FOR EVERYONE!

Comment #2: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits  on  03/29  at  01:02 PM

Alan Keyes thinks he can rant without being slapped down he has another thing coming…

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Rev. Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said, “It’s unacceptable that so-called pro-life groups should try to set the agenda for a noble academic institution.”

Veazey noted, “Our nation was founded on religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. People of all faiths and no faith are citizens of this country. The protest over President Obama speaking at Notre Dame because of his views on abortion and stem cell research shows a weak understanding of the nature of our democracy and an intolerance for diverse viewpoints.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Prochoice_Christians_fire_back_at_ObamaNotre_0326.html

Comment #3: Nix  on  03/29  at  01:28 PM

the cult of abortion centered on the ritual of child sacrifice.

As opposed to the cult of forced gestation centered on the ritual of female sacrifice.

And I’m very sorry, Mr. Keyes, but there is no stamp of Catholicity.  There are rites by which one may attain the sacraments of baptism, communion, reconciliation, and confirmation, but none of them include or are precluded by a rubber stamp.

How’s Maya ?

Comment #4: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  03/29  at  01:34 PM

“have hot lesbian sex right on top of pictures of James Dobson.”

You had me until there; but I don’t believe that.

Comment #5: _IM_  on  03/29  at  02:01 PM

“Obama has moved with impetuous determination to prove his claim to the mantle of High Priest of the Worldwide Abortion cult.”

Dammit!  I was hoping to take the mantle of High Priest of the Worldwide Abortion Cult myself, but Obama got there first. 

I should have known the fix is in…you can’t just get a title like that on your merits, you have to be connected to the right people…meritocracy my ass…

Comment #6: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  02:01 PM

Dude’s foaming. He’s a foamer.

I hope the day comes when he is incapacitated and the last thing he gets to see is his daughter. And I hope she shows him more mercy than he deserves, whatever form that may take.

Comment #7: BrianX  on  03/29  at  02:03 PM

I have to say, on further reflection, just how fixated some of the antiabortion foamers are on the idea of “child sacrifice”. It’s as if they sincerely believe that the cult of Moloch, far from being a long-dead, incompletely understood religion of some of the Hebrews’ neighbors, is alive and well…

Oh wait. Conspiracy thinking. Conservatism may not be a mental disorder, but wingnuttery definitely is.

Comment #8: BrianX  on  03/29  at  02:06 PM

I’m waiting for Keyes to write The Protocols of the Elders of Abortion.  He’s obviously already developed enough bullshit conspiracy theories around abortion to base a book on…

Comment #9: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  02:10 PM

”“have hot lesbian sex right on top of pictures of James Dobson.”

You had me until there; but I don’t believe that. “

...well, obviously the pictures are face down.  Then it’s believable…

Comment #10: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  02:13 PM

Holy shit, Alan Keyes is AWESOME!!! Dude is one of the most talented right-wingers in the country now. I can’t think of anyone else whose game approaches his level, except maybe Glenn Beck, or Michelle Bachman might be close.

Usually with right wingers you have to dig a little to get to the feverish paranoia, but with Alan it’s just BAM! He opens his mouth, and his eyes start spinning like mystical psychedelic propeller blades. I can’t think of anyone else who makes me feel like I’ve just taken a hit of pure concentrated crazeee. Maybe we should donate.

Comment #11: atheist  on  03/29  at  02:26 PM

Apparently every other Notre Dame commencement speaker in history has been 100% in line with Catholic teaching…

Oh, wait, I forgot:  the most important thing in the world, more so than war, poverty, collapsing economies, overpopulation, famine, plague, exhausted water tables, desertification, dictatorships, torture, you name it, is controlling other people’s sex lives.

Comment #12: MS  on  03/29  at  02:29 PM

I never thought the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche would end up looking pretty level headed compared to some of the personalities we have coming out of the GOP. 

Keyes / Bachmann 2012 FTW.

Comment #13: Joshua  on  03/29  at  02:29 PM

“Keyes / Bachmann 2012 FTW.”

...and if they win, Palin, with all her foreign policy experience, would make a great Secretary of State…Awesome!!!...

The only remaining question is who would play Serena Joy…

Comment #14: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  02:38 PM

Wow! It’s like Alan Keyes has been to my house on a Saturday, which is the day I and my friends all get our weekly abortions,

I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that.  I mean,it was fun joining in at first, soldiarity and all that, but those stirrups are really cold, and the gynaecologist is starting to get very sarcastic…

Comment #15: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  03/29  at  02:52 PM

Why Keyes isn’t in a straitjacket and padded room at Bellevue is beyond me.

Comment #16: CHV  on  03/29  at  03:31 PM

Wait, there’s more?!?

Comment #17: redwards  on  03/29  at  03:59 PM

“Apparently every other Notre Dame commencement speaker in history has been 100% in line with Catholic teaching…”

Fer real.

Bush was the commencement speaker in 2001, despite his colorful history with the death penalty.

Comment #18: blucas!  on  03/29  at  04:11 PM

Scream Barackula Scream!!!!!!!!

Comment #19: atheist  on  03/29  at  04:36 PM

Poor guy’s just never recovered from being thumped 70-27% by Mr Obama in the senate race.

On the unnerving front, that means better than 1 in 4 Illinois voters looked at those two and said “gimme more Keyes!”

Comment #20: Evil Bender  on  03/29  at  05:23 PM

“On the unnerving front, that means better than 1 in 4 Illinois voters looked at those two and said “gimme more Keyes!””

...OTOH, after the last 8-years of political madness, I wouldn’t be shocked to hear somebody saying, “You know, I really like that Mr. Hitler.  He’s got some good ideas…”, or “Joe Stalin has the right kind of attitude to clean this country up and bring us back to greatness!”, or “Sure, ‘Pol Pot’ is kind of a funny name, but he really seems to know how to get people motivated…”

Comment #21: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  06:15 PM

Cult of Abortion?

I dunno ... it ain’t the pro-choice crowd that’s worshiping Teh Fetus.

Comment #22: Ms Kate  on  03/29  at  06:17 PM

@Evil:

I almost felt sorry for Alan Keyes in that race, but GOP lost that Senate seat to Obama the moment they dumped Jack Ryan like a dead hooker in a ravine after the scandal about him having sex with his own wife (gasp) came to light.

In fact, Illinois Republicans couldn’t have abandoned Ryan fast enough. His candidacy was effectively unplugged in 24 hours.

I’m surprised that Keyes even agreed to run as his replacement. But on the other hand, I felt happy for Maryland finally getting rid of him.

Comment #23: CHV  on  03/29  at  06:58 PM

Oh, and hey, since I’m actually an alum and care about this, I feel compelled to link here:

http://www.wesupportnotredame.org/

There’s also a larger context, that probably isn’t of interest to anyone here, having to do with ND’s struggle to reconcile its desire to retain its religious identity (unlike, say, Duke) with its fucking cutthroat desire to keep movin’ up in college rankings.  It’s a whole thing.

Comment #24: blucas!  on  03/29  at  07:52 PM

Are we seriously to believe that some morally truthful argument can be made that justifies presenting Barack Obama in a Catholic context, as one who speaks for decent moral principle?

Hey. We seriously believed that some morally truthful argument can be made that justifies presenting Alan Keyes in senatorial and presidential campaigns.

Comment #25: Emily  on  03/29  at  08:32 PM

Barack Obama does not represent Catholic values, because Barack Obama does not support the systematic sexual abuse of minors at the hands of authority figures—nor does he support the systematic exclusion of women from positions of authority.

He does represent a societal commitment to our least fortunate and an ongoing belief in the transformative power of good works.  So one could say that he represents the values of the average Catholic believer at the expense of the values of the average Catholic leader.

Comment #26: Punditus Maximus  on  03/29  at  09:56 PM

I’m sure Keyes is utterly positive that he’d be in the White House right this second if he’d won that election against Obama.

Obama? What’s Obama got that he hasn’t got? Height?

Yessiree, it would be HIM, that’s MR. President Keyes to you, and if you thought the wusses in the Bush Administration were unitary, you haven’t seen anything yet.

(Some would say “ain’t seen nothing yet,” but Alan Keyes is not one of those vulgarians.)

And every time he thinks about how those dirty liberal Democrat gay hippies cheated, cheated cheated him out of the senate seat, he becomes just a little bit angrier and more embittered. 

And women? Alan Keyes may be short and resentful, he may spend every drip of his emotional energy pretending he doesn’t notice the other conservatives noticing absolutely nothing about him except that he’s black (and short)—but at least he’s not a woman. 

And as long as there are women, there will always be someone for Alan Keyes to look down on.

He really is an armchair psychologist’s delight, isn’t he?

Comment #27: Molly, NYC  on  03/29  at  11:07 PM

everytime i read something by Keyes, i feel like my soul has been soiled.

SOILED

at this point, just the level of filth i aquired reading Keyes hateful rants will be enough to drag me to hell when i die.
but i *will* get to see this fucker playing “drop the soap” with over-sized demons, so its not ALL bad

Comment #28: denelian  on  03/29  at  11:07 PM

“Alan may have some screwy ideas, but I believe he loves the US and knows this democratic experiment is exceptional.”

...I wonder how exceptional we’d be if we became the theocratic dictatorship of Gilead, which is really the end result of what he and his fellow travelers want…

Christian answer to Iran, here we come!...

Besides, if Alan Keyes is in love with anything other than the idea of imposing social rules on people, especially women, it’s the sound of his own voice.

Fortunately, we can still allow him to hear his own voice, in his own padded room, even with the straight-jacket on…

Comment #29: MikeEss  on  03/29  at  11:28 PM

@CHV

... the moment they dumped Jack Ryan like a dead hooker in a ravine…

really?  This was the analogy you chose to use here? 

Fuck you

Comment #30: Babs  on  03/29  at  11:52 PM

So How do you manage the weekly abortions? Are yez all on some incredibly powerful parthenogenetic drugs, or do you just work in shifts? (Now I’m struck by uncertainty: obviously parthenogenesis, when it didn’t produce another baby jesus, would be a terrible threat to the proper male order of things, but maybe not as terrible as having all those guys knowing that their seed had been spilled in vain and they would never be on the hook for child support.)

Comment #31: paul  on  03/30  at  12:11 AM

Thank you Babs. I was going to say:  Nice imagery for a feminist blog, isn’t it?

Comment #32: Godless Heathen  on  03/30  at  01:02 AM

Enh, it describes the murderous sexual psychopathy of the high-level leadership well.

Keep in mind that Ryan was ditched for reports of being a SOB while trying to get his wife to have kinky sex.  If they’d have kept their heads, it truly would have blown over after a few months.  Ryan would have lost, but not bad, and the Illinois GOP would have been something other than a laughingstock.

Comment #33: Punditus Maximus  on  03/30  at  01:22 AM

“The living incarnation of the glamour of evil.”

Wow.  That’s bad.  That’s not, like, “the president is an asshole” bad, or even “the president is a war criminal” bad.  That’s “Coming up next on TNT, the drama explodes as the Halliwell sisters face off against the living incarnation of the glamour of evil…”

Fuck, I need to get out of the house and stop watching so much daytime TV.

Comment #34: Byronic Commando  on  03/30  at  05:01 AM

Alan may have some screwy ideas, but I believe he loves the US and knows this democratic experiment is exceptional.

Wow, only the US has democracy?  If only I’d known that all those votes I’d cast in local, national and European elections were imaginary!  Here’s me thinking I had local councillors, an MP, an MEP and all that stuff when actually I live in an autocracy.  Thanks Alan Keyes and Lil Sam for setting me straight!

Comment #35: Katherine  on  03/30  at  06:04 AM

Lil Sam, I am in agreement with Katherine. And you should either go back to writing high school history textbooks for the Stepford PTA or extract your head from your ass.

Comment #36: Luke  on  03/30  at  08:57 AM

If Catholics would just open and actually read their Bibles instead of just thumping them, they would see that abortion is clearly not murder.  It’s amazing that someone can become Pope without ever reading the entire Bible.  Or, maybe he’s just pretending that certain parts of the Bible don’t really count if they conflict with his own views.

Comment #37: bananacat  on  03/30  at  09:09 AM

I’ll send this guy a tinfoil hat.

Comment #38: Arakiba  on  03/30  at  11:00 AM

Silly Catgirl, Catholics were historically never encouraged to read their bibles ... what was the Protestant reformation about? Oh, yeah - people actually getting ahold of printed bibles translated into their native languages and learning to read them for themselves!  Once people start actually reading the bible you see, well, they do nasty un-Catholic things like start their own religions!

It’s a secret book, and the important people will tell you what it says and means.

As for Obama being glamourous ... well, I’ve been watching that.  That’s some damn fine evil there. wink

Comment #39: Ms Kate  on  03/30  at  11:17 AM

after the scandal about him having sex with his own wife (gasp) came to light.

Uh…no.  There was no scandal about him having sex with Jeri “7 of 9” Ryan.  There was scandal b/c the divorce papers revealed that he repeated tried to force her to go to kinky sex clubs after she’d repeatedly told him she never wanted to do that.

It set off the fundy sex-haters club, which was part of his base, b/c the only sex you should ever have is missionary and for procreational means.

It upset women in general, since we don’t take kindly to sexual harassment and abuse.  The GOP in Illinois counts on Suburban Soccer Mom votes and the idea of being forced into a kinky sex club didn’t sell in that demographic.

Alan Keyes was brought in as a carpet-bagger b/c he was black.  They wanted to negate Obama’s Blackazoidian powers in the same way McCain tried to negate them by picking Palin.

Comment #40: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  03/30  at  01:44 PM

Right, and the Illinois GOP never recovered.  If they’d stayed behind Ryan, they could have just lost the election reasonably gracefully and not become a laughingstock.  He’s a guy who wants to have more sex than his wife does.  He’s also a guy who tries to coerce women into doing things she doesn’t want to do.  These are both compatible with the average Republican voter, even if he takes them too far.  But bringing in Keyes destroyed them, as the tokenism was just too utterly obvious.

Ryan was Just Another Entitled White Pol.  Keyes was an unmistakable statement of just awful racism on the part of the high levels of the Party.  The first is the raison d’etre of the GOP.  The second is something people are genuinely uncomfortable with.

Comment #41: Punditus Maximus  on  03/30  at  02:47 PM

Yeah, it’s not that only the US has democracy, it’s that only the US has SUPER-AWESOME Democracy, with Three-Fifths Action Grip.

Comment #42: Punditus Maximus  on  03/30  at  02:48 PM

Ask immigrants that had a choice of nations why they chose the US.

We’re richer, professionals are paid higher salaries, and it’s easier to start an independent business.

Well and good to tell me and my family, who’s managed, within a couple of generations, to take make a lot of significant academic, professional, and economic achievements, to talk about the great wonderfulness of American excpetionalism.

Telling someone who makes $8/hr and is on the verge of being laid off that they need to do without universal health coverage because of “American excpetionalism” and that they’re better off here in the US than in Canada or France rings a bit false.

And nowhere does Keyes talk, in his rant, about American exceptionalism. If anything, it seems that he has a false view of America—one in which he thinks that America is outraged by the awfulness of legal abortion and throwing a fit that Obama isn’t being rejected because of his support for keeping abortion legal.

Comment #43: Tyro  on  03/30  at  03:19 PM

Lil Sam—which ones?  The Mexicans and other Latin Americans we repeatedly warred with to keep them poor and dependent?  Or the Africans, Chinese, and other Asians who were the inhabitants of colonial possessions we propped up? 

Or maybe it’s the African slaves’ kids, I bet I know why their folks emigrated

No, wait, it’s the “good” immigrants, the white European ones.  And hey, you are right; America really was, until the conservative project took over in the 80s, a land of opportunity for all of the immigrants mentioned above.  But now European societies are more socially mobile, and racist hatred holds back Latino immigrants . . . America is exceptional and wondrous when we successfully crush our conservatives.  When they hold sway, they try to turn us into Just Another Place.

Comment #44: Punditus Maximus  on  03/30  at  04:18 PM

Ask immigrants that had a choice of nations why they chose the US.

I think it’s the clean running water, indoor plumbing, electricity, and houses with four walls.  I’m completely serious; plenty of people immigrate to this country because living in a one bedroom apartment with 6 other people is still a huge improvement over what they left behind.  You didn’t think they come here just to spite the right-wing fundies, did you?

Comment #45: bananacat  on  03/30  at  05:31 PM

Lil Sam, I thought I asked you to extract your head from your ass.

While we wait: Some immigrants come to Canada, Europe, or a host of other common immigration decisions. Shall we ask them why they chose [insert evidently insufficiently exceptional, yet mysteriously common, immigration destination here, which we shall call “X”] instead of the USA?

And if preferences for the USA expressed by immigrants to the USA prove that the USA is exceptional and special, wouldn’t therefore preferences for [X] expressed by immigrants to [X] prove that [X] is special and exceptional, too?

Comment #46: Luke  on  03/30  at  06:23 PM

Ask immigrants that had a choice of nations why they chose the US.

Lil Sam

What if I ask immigrants that had a choice of nations why they chose Canada?  Or the UK?  Or all the North Africans why they choose Spain and Italy?

Because our social security system is so much better?
Because going to the ER for 8+ hours is so much better than getting in to see a Doctor before your health becomes an emergency?
Because wack-a-loons like Alan Keyes want to control their reproductive choices?
Because nuts like this think it’s A_Okay to ex-communicate people who protect a 14 year olds life who was raped?

Comment #47: cynickal  on  03/30  at  06:40 PM

Exactly! Give that commenter a cookie!!!

Why thank you. I like cookies. Your cheerleading for the US doesn’t help your average person that much, though, who just wants decent pay for an honest day’s work and doesn’t want to worry about being bankrupted by health costs and wants to avoid destitution. Telling the lower middle class in the US “we’re a great place for (well-capitalized) immigrants!” is little consolation when, frankly, the rest of the first world offers a pretty good life, making claims of America’s “exceptionalism” ring a bit hollow.

Comment #48: Tyro  on  03/30  at  11:32 PM

Lil Sam—Pell Grants and government-backed student loans are liberal programs, and they are generally unavailable to non-citizens.

So, and I mean this in the most offensive way possible, were you lying and figuring no one would call you on it, or do you just not care what the truth is?

Comment #49: Punditus Maximus  on  03/31  at  02:09 AM

Once again, Lil Sam, your problem is that you like to spout off but you don’t like to listen. Playing up the “excpetionalism” of the US is something that means something only to those who are exceptionally successful. The truth is that schools, working conditions, and benefits are a lot better in many other first-world countries, and it’s little consolation and downright assinine to tell those people, “well, yes, things might be better for you exlsewhere, but for a minority of Americans, you should appreciate America’s exceptional nature.”

We’ve got 300 million people in America. Why don’t you spend some time giving a damn about their situation rather than telling yourself that their lives don’t matter, compated to the conditions they’d have elsewhere, because America is “exceptional”? Seriously, your claims are only possible by basically spitting on the wide swath of Americans whom you perceive, were they to have better schools and lives, would somehow interfere with your “excpetionalism.” Shut it. We’ve been around the world. We know what “American exceptionalism” can buy and what it can’t.

Comment #50: Tyro  on  03/31  at  12:48 PM
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