“[Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.”

— Alan Keyes

Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska, February 19, 2009. http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16300
2009

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