McCain “very honored” by support of Pastor Hagee
McCain, who had been courting the endorsement of Pastor Hagee for over a year, said that he was “very honored by Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement.”
Here’s what McCain’s man Hagee has said:
“The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West… a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.”
“Russia is going to get in that position and they are literally, with all that massive military force, going to attack Israel. This is recorded in Ezekiel 38 and 39. God himself is literally going to destroy that army. Decimate it.” – Hagee told ABC News in 2006.
And more recently, for the second time, he blamed gays in New Orleans for Katrina:
“What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it’s called a curse.” - Rev. Hagee
The difference between Rev. Wright/Obama and Hagee/McCain is that McCain worked for a year to gain Hagee endorsement and as recently as Sunday, said he’s still “glad to have his endorsement” and spoke of how he admired Hagee views, “I admire and respect Dr. Hagee’s leadership… I admire and appreciate his advocacy for the state of Israel, the independence of the state of Israel.”
Obama has no political affiliation with Rev. Wright like McCain does with Hagee. I think it’s time to elect a leader of the free world that doesn’t base his views on ancient texts and ‘group think‘ from the Dark Ages…. don’t you?
i.e. This guy is said to have been sought by the Bush Administration for advice on the Middle East, I’m not kidding.
McCain responds to Hagee’s nonsense, calling it ‘nonsense’.
Nine times.
‘Nonsense’.
Then, McCain (and I love this) points out that he hasn’t attend Hagee’s church for 20 years….
Q: What is your reaction (to Hagee Katrina comments)?
McCain: It’s nonsense.
Q: Would you withdraw accepting his endorsement?
McCain: It’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense. It’s nonsense. I don’t have anything additional to say about that. It’s nonsense.
Q: Do you regret accepting his endorsement?
A: It’s nonsense. I don’t have anything more to say about that. Of course–I apologize for that. It’s nonsense. I reject that categorically and I would point out there’s a lot of people who have endorsed me. They support my views. That does not mean that I support–would I consider repudiating his endorsement? I certainly condemn those parts of his remarks. I continue to appreciate his support for the state of Israel and for many of the good things that he and his church has done. But I repudiate as strongly as possible those remarks and those of the Catholic church as well.
Q: You and your Democratic opponents spend a certain amount of time commenting on surrogates and endorsers, on what they said. Do you think that is in any way interfering with how you’re trying to conduct your campaign?
A: …I didn’t attend Pastor Hagee’s church for 20 years. There’s a great deal of difference in my view between someone who endorses you and other circumstances.
Obama was in church just for the Black Liberation Theology. If you can’t realize that’s political, William, then you’re an idiot.
Glad to see FOX NEWS is on top of this one.
McCain repudiated the Catholic comments and the gay New Orleans comments, thats all.
I guess everything else Hagee has said is OK with McCain since he pursued his endorsement for a year.
ie… Bomb, bomb, bomb … bomb bomb, Iran
Hagee, the Armageddon foreign policy.
Yes, Fox News, the one network that’s not completely liberal.
But of course, you prefer MSNBC or CNN. For a properly leftist biased approach.
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Listen to him, William.
Do you some good. You’re uptight.