Alan Keyes and Barack Obama apparently have an ongoing feud. The first time that I believe their paths crossed was in the 2004 Illinois Senate race. In that race Obama was elected as the Junior Senator for the state of Illinois, but not before Keyes really frustrated Obama with several charges that he brought against him.
Their paths crossed again in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. While neither candidate debated each other this time, Obama was the Democratic candidate and winner of the Presidential Election. Alan Keyes lost the Republican and Constitution Party nominations, but he did win the third largest amount of votes in the Presidential Election.
The real kicker from the 2008 Presidential Campaign is a lawsuit that was filed after the election. Several lawsuits were brought against Obama due to a lack of proof of “natural-born” citizenship status. This stems from his “citizenship” in Indonesia as a child (Indonesia did not allow dual-citizenship, so his parents would have had to have given up American citizenship), his travel to Pakistan in the 1980’s (which was closed to American citizens), and his lack of proof of a birth certificate in Hawaii (not a certificate of live birth, and the fact that his grandmother claims to have seen him born in Kenya). Most of the lawsuits were deemed to not have standing because the courts ruled that those people were not harmed from the lack of documentation concerning Obama. Alan Keyes also brought a lawsuit, and since he was a Presidential candidate, there is little doubt that he would have standing.
*** A separate lawsuit is going to have a conference after Justice John Roberts called one for January 23rd. ***
Now the next set of barbs are being traded as Obama has launched a new service plan. Alan Keyes has a website called RenewAmerica.us. What is the name of Obama’s new service plan? Renew America Together.