John McCain wants John Hagee’s supporters and John Hagee’s money, but he doesn’t want to be tarred with the brush of John Hagee’s insane and hateful beliefs. While Barack Obama has denounced not only the insane statements of Jeremiah Wright, but Jeremiah Wright himself, John McCain continues to gutlessly straddle the fence on Hagee’s outrageous mouth.
First, it was Hagee calling the Roman Catholic Church “the Great Whore.” Then he blamed the demise of New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina on homosexuals. He has since apologized for both statements, but then recanted the apology about the New Orleans statement. Should anyone accept his apology about Catholicism or it’s sincerity? Would anyone accept the apology of someone who claims the Jews killed Christ, or that poor people are poor because they are sinners? Just how outrageous does “Pastor” Hagee have to get before John McCain quits kissing his behind?
Well, perhaps this is it, though I doubt it. Hagee now claims that Adolph Hitler was carrying out God’s will with the Holocaust, and he even quotes the Bible to prove it! What’s next?
Republicans gleefully see a trickle of Black Liberation Theology quotes coming out over the next six months to supposedly doom the Obama candidacy, but if such quotes do come, even though Obama rejects this sort of thing, can they be worse that the torrent of insanity that will be coming from Hagee and his crazy cohorts? When will John McCain discover he has a spine and denounce not just a few “foolish and absurd” statements, but the man who vomits up this bile, this hatred, and this insanity?
3 Comments
May 21, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Sadly, the Republican party is still catering to the Bible Belt. As Bush has demonstrated, that path rarely has long-term positive consequences.
May 21, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I must have missed it where McCain went to Hagee’s church for 20 years and considered him a mentor.
May 22, 2008 at 12:18 am
No, Ben, what you missed was:
1. My posting three days ago on that very issue, in which I point out that McCain actively pursued the support and contributions of Hagee and others like him. See:
http://chrisboomer.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/mccains-wright-is-wrong/
2. Obama’s very clear and very precise denunciations not only of the nonsense Wright was spouting, but Wright himself. McCain has made half-hearted comments about Hagee’s statements to the affect that he disagrees with them, which is far from the strong and clear denials and denunciations Senator Obama has made against Wright. In 2000, he called these people “agents of intolerance.” Today, he actively pursues the support of people whose statements and beliefs are just as reprehensible as Wrights.
I think there are many people who are predisposed to oppose Senator Obama because of his race, but feel more comfortable using these superficial excuses. I will not say that is true in your case, but I urge you to get your news from more sources than merely Fox News. Yes, the mainstream media have a liberal bias, but I like to get my news from a variety of sources and not have just one source reflect my prejudices and predispositions.
I was a Republican until George W. Bush was elected. I worked in numerous Republican campaigns and worked the phones and knocked on doors for John McCain in 2000 when he ran against Bush. But, the John McCain who ran in 2000 is not the John McCain who is running today and he is pandering now to those who who so viciously trashed him before.