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The tone of tonight’s debate seemed higher than before, perhaps because it was Phil Ponce and Public Television, or maybe it was the less formalized setting.

Still, Alan Keyes gave us more of the same tonight - the rightist populist, too confident by half that he will ascend into heaven, debating not his opponent, but a heavily stylized caricature.

Obama built on his criticisms of Keyes from the last debate, continuing his argument that one of Keyes’ justifications for opposing gay marriage (that children who don’t know their parents would “inevitably” have sex with a sibling) undercut the foundation of adoption. Using Jefferson and the 14th Amendment to deflate Keyes’ contention that no separation of church and state existed was good - it’s just too bad he didn’t have enough time to elaborate.

The best part was that Obama finally stopped saying “uh” so much.

I wrote more, but I’m saving it for tomorrow’s Capitol Fax.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 26, 04 @ 8:30 pm

Comments

The only thing that anyone has to say on the gay marriage issue is that when people vote on amendments to protect marriage they pass with nearly 80%. It may not poll that well, but it sure shows up at the polls and democrats have been panicked in states where it is on the ballot — especially after Missourri. There was a concerted effort on the part of democrats to get marriage amendments off of state referendums because of the potential damage.

The only thing one has to do is point out all of the stupid cultural things that have been become synonomous with the Democratic Party, couple it with efforts to get marriage amendments off the ballot in other states and ask “Who do you trust more to protect marriage?”

The squeals and howls from the democrats will only reinforce to people who they can trust.

You would think that someone has experienced and educated as Alan Keyes could figure it out. No, he, like many, in the far reaches of the religous right (I don’t even think he is mainstream, there) have to tie it to some repulsive act and tell us about it. When I hear crap like that I wonder who the sick one is…

…Sorry, saw your post and had to vent…

Comment by Greg Wednesday, Oct 27, 04 @ 4:31 pm