As a Federalist, Key advocated weak government and States rights. Marx would avoid his company.

Key was a lawyer. He defended, pro-bono, free blacks who were kidnapped into slavery. During the aftermath of the Snow Riot, District Attorney Francis Scott Key prosecuted Reuben Crandall, an abolitionist. Because he was friendly to free blacks, it is possible that Francis Scott Key could admire Obama's intelligence and charm. But would he view Obama as an equal? No.

I suspect that Francis Scott Key would become livid at the sight of a black man in a seat of power, a.k.a. the Presidency of the United States, (and in the Senate, and at Harvard). He would share Patrick Buchanan's view that the Un...

As a Federalist, Key advocated weak government and States rights. Marx would avoid his company.

Key was a lawyer. He defended, pro-bono, free blacks who were kidnapped into slavery. During the aftermath of the Snow Riot, District Attorney Francis Scott Key prosecuted Reuben Crandall, an abolitionist. Because he was friendly to free blacks, it is possible that Francis Scott Key could admire Obama's intelligence and charm. But would he view Obama as an equal? No.

I suspect that Francis Scott Key would become livid at the sight of a black man in a seat of power, a.k.a. the Presidency of the United States, (and in the Senate, and at Harvard). He would share Patrick Buchanan's view that the United States belongs to white men. He'd join the Council of Conservative Citizens, revive the ACS and tour the right-wing media circuit advocating revolution. He'd partner with Toby Keith to write a new anthem.

Key was concerned about the state of society which he considered radically vicious and he believed that demagogues and rascals had made politics distasteful to qualified men. His remedies were virtue, order and faith.

The city's legally sanctioned slave trade did not stir Key to action. He ]was far more offended by the outside agitators from the North who sought to abolish it.

Snow Riot - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55082-2005Feb1?language=printer

As for the woman in the wheelchair: Francis Scott Key would not have believed that she had any right to speak publicly about politics

The writer of that article is sadly misinformed. I can't think of any white historical figure from the 18th and 19th centuries (including John Brown) who would cheer President Barack Obama. Like the birthers they
would complain that this is not the America they grew up in. Please stop romanticizing early American
history.