Keyes, Obama--At Least It's Almost Over?

By Margaret Lyons in News on Oct 27, 2004 7:28PM

So yeah, Barack Obama and Alan Keyes had another debate last night, and to the shock of absolutely no one they disagreed on almost everything. Weird weird times are upon us, friends. For example, Alan Keyes believes he's going to win next Tuesday, or as he puts it "[whether I'm going to win] is for God to know and for the obtuse media in Illinois to find out." BTW, that's our new comeback for everything. Hey, did you pay the rent? Have you seen my shirt? Did you have something to do with the Hired Truck scandal? Ahem, that's for God to know and the obtuse media in Illinois to find out. Burn.

Keyes criticized Obama for opposing school vouchers despite sending his children to private school. Obama admitted that he gets a tuition break at the Lab School because he teaches at the U of C and his wife works for the hospitals. "I do not see the day when every American family's going to be able to be employed by the University of Chicago," Keyes replied, which might be the one thing he's ever said that Chicagoist thinks is true. Well done, Mister Ambassador! We thought it was really cute that each candidate was asked to say something nice about the other as their last question—seriously, squee on that. But uh, Mr. Keyes? Please never ever smile. Or wear cowboy hats. But you do have a nice lookin couch.

Not enough politics for you? Check out the latest issue of the Saturnine Detractor, an online quarterly run by U of C alums (and in the interest of disclosure, some of Chicagoist's very good friends). It's the election issue, and we particularly liked this story about the 23-year-old running for Illinois House of Representatives in Peoria. Note to self: quit wasting life. It was bad enough when we became older than most Olympians.