September 08, 2004

Alan Keyes Alienates Everyone

During the 2000 primaries, I had kind of hoped that Alan Keyes would win the Republican nomination. Imagine the irony if a conservative Republican was the first black person to become president!

But now, I'm kind of glad he didn't win. Not only has he shown himself to be a hypocrite, but now he's saying dumb things like Jesus wouldn't vote for his rival in the Illinois senate race.

::sigh::

Relgion and politics don't mix well. For any future political leaders who might be reading: Please don't quote the Bible in making political arguments. Remember that we do have a diverse religious culture, full of Christians, yes, but also of athiests, agnostics, Muslims, Hindus, etc., etc.. Quoting the Bible is just as ridiculous to them as quoting the Koran would be to Christians.

And don't put words in Christ's mouth or assume that he'd endorse you. To the athiest/agnostic/et al., saying "Christ wouldn't vote for my opponent" is just as silly as saying "Santa Claus would vote for me, because I'm nice and my opponent is naughty!" or "The coal in my opponent's stocking could power New York City for a year!"

Even worse, to the Christian, Keyes' statement is borderline blasphemy. How dare he say "Vote for me! Jesus would!"? With that one statement Keyes has probably alienated just about everyone.

::shakes head:: Next!

Posted by Blog Jones at September 8, 2004 03:01 PM | Category: Politics

Comments

Alan Keyes Alienates Everyone

We certainly agree on this. I was stunned when the Repubs approached him. I thought well, they've just guaranteed Obama wins. He must be grateful. Did they just give up and decide to forward a half-hearted candidate? Or are they really just totally oblivious to perceptions? Hmm, they did suggest Ditka, too ...

Posted by: Bob at September 9, 2004 01:57 PM

There is something wrong with your trackback system. When I click on it, it also gives a partial address (the same partial address my blog tried to use to ping you when I posted this).

Posted by: Admiral Quixote at September 12, 2004 02:27 PM

Should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out!

Posted by: Blog Jones at September 12, 2004 05:49 PM

I just resaved my post (and told it to manually ping you) to test both the manual and automatic methods. So excuse the double ping, but glad you got it to work.

Posted by: Admiral Quixote at September 14, 2004 08:41 PM
Due to the proliferation of comment spam, I've had to close comments on this entry. Sorry. Spammers ruin it for everybody. If you really, really want to add a comment to this entry, email me.