"WHERE FAITH GIVES REASON FOR CITIZEN ACTION"

While surfing the shallow end of the internet gene pool today I decided to pay a visit to that long-lost lover of all things insane: Alan Keyes! Yeah, you can check out his wonderful website (motto: "WHERE FAITH GIVES REASON FOR CITIZEN ACTION"), where this is the latest posting:

Why Obama's Ft. Hood reaction seems so strange

There are times when even Obama's critics seem to have difficulty putting into words their reaction to his strange behavior. I think that's because they refuse to consider the simple premise that makes sense of it all: He feels no love for the USA. He seems in fact to feel himself to be no part of this country.

The occupant of the office he lays claim to is supposed to represent the body politic. People expect that his reactions will reflect its joys and pains i.e., the joys and pains of the American people as a whole. They expected him to react to the shocking events at Ft. Hood the way a person reacts to a grievous and unexpected wound to his body. Even a minor blow (like stubbing his toe) gets a pained reaction from the whole body. But the Ft. Hood attack is like a razor sharp knife that slips from its proper use to cut off a finger. It can only seem like a minor wound to someone whose gut isn't writhing with pain.

Yeah, it goes on like that for a while, tossing in various biblical quotations and casting aspersions about the president's legitimacy, et cetera. The first comment to that post gives you a good idea of his readership:

I agree with you, and I in the Love of Our Lord pray that as a nation we can humble ouselves and pray and God will hear our prayers and heal our land. GOD BLESS YOU ALAN KEYES.

Yeah, the whole site is like that. Between invocations of his preferred Sky Daddy, and pleas for money to support his cause (why you can even sign up for a cruise with him as the featured speaker!), he has links to other kooks and conspiracy theorists and what he calls "THOUGHTLETS" - here's a bit from the latest one:

In this regard I have observed that the most important information conservatives can get from Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is silence: the things and people Fox positively ignores. You can be sure someone you know to be conservative is standing firm for what's right when you can't remember the last time you saw or heard anything positive about them on Fox News. Think of all the reporting they've done on the issue of Obama's eligibility for the Presidency.

Yeah, see, FOX News is in the pocket of the evil lib'rul Murdoch, and that explains why good ol' Ambassador Alan hasn't been on much lately.

Man, when you're too crazy for FOX, that really oughta tell you something.

Jim Downey