Keyes Back, Still Wack

Arrested at Notre Dame

Alan Keyes once said that Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.

Apparently, Christ also would not want Obama to give a commencement speech at Notre Dame.

Keyes was arrested along with 21 other protestors on Friday who want the school to rescind its invitation to the president.

Keyes says he intended to spend the weekend in jail, according to a press release, but instead was bailed out by a stranger from New York with a credit card.

Upon his release, Keyes said: "I went on campus to bear witness to the truth that the invitation by the University of Notre Dame to Barack Obama is a travesty and abomination against the truth that is characteristic to our Catholic and Christian faith. Obama's actions deserve condemnation, not honor."

Keyes intends to return to the campus this week.

Obama's past adversaries aren't exactly rushing to Keyes' side.

"It was the longest 86 days of my life," prospective gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft says of the Keyes campaign for Senate here. "He embarrassed himself, he embarrassed us, and he embarrassed the Republican Party."

And Wonkette recalls this conversation with President George W. Bush that Obama wrote about in The Audacity of Hope:

BUSH: You know, me and you got something in common.

OBAMA: What's that?

BUSH:We both had to debate Alan Keyes. That guy’s a piece of work, isn’t he?

Indeed. And now he's Notre Dame's problem.

Steve Rhodes is the founder, editor and publisher of The Beachwood Reporter, an award-winning online news and culture review based in Chicago.

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