HarperLee

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

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I'm just a poor, confused American voter still trying to figure out this whole Pastor Hagee controversy. Here's what I've figured out from the tiny morsels of information I've gleaned from the world wide webnet:

Right-wing pastor John Hagee says vile, despicable things about patriotic Americans...the worst being that Catholics are part of a church that is a "great whore," that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews," and that God damns America with hurricanes because gay Americans plan parades.

Oh, and Hagee says God wants us to destroy Iran ASAP.
John McCain actively seeks Pastor Hagee's endorsement and gets it.
When John McCain accepts Hagee's endorsement, he doesn't include a list of the pastor's statements that he finds unacceptable. No, my friends, he accepts the whole Hagee package with no ifs, ands, or buts.

When McCain finds out that Hagee thinks God damns America because of gays, Catholics, Muslims and others, McCain is shocked...shocked! But he continues to praise Pastor Hagee and cherish his crucial endorsement.

Instead of turning the controversy into a teachable moment---with, say, a groundbreaking speech on religious diversity and equality for all Americans---McCain, the straight-talker, continues to weave and waffle his way through the Hagee controversy, hoping that the media will give him yet another free pass. (Most of the media comply in exchange for some excellent barbeque behind McCain's bus.)
When gently---ever so gently---pressed about Hagee's statements weeks later by journalists, a visibly agitated McCain blurts out that, hey, at least he wasn't my pastor for twenty years!!!

Questions for Mr. McCain:

If John Hagee was your pastor for twenty years, would you have left the church over his anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic and America-damning comments?

If yes, why do you continue to accept Hagee's endorsement?

If no, why not?

[Daily Kos, April 29, 2008]

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CosmicRocker

LOL.
1 Pastor at a time. I need a scorecard.
Which is the "Pastor Disaster" of the day?

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lrrp

Why was "songbird" McCain the only impedance to the free exchange of records from the Vietnamese government, decades after the war was over? Something to hide there, songbird?

Richterscale

This is the Big question, in my humble opinion. I have my doubts that any mainstream reporter will put down the BBQ long enough to do a story on it, or ask McCain in public and on camera about it though.

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mudwhistle

Hagee wasn't McCain's pastor. McCain didn't go to his church for 20 years or donate money to him.

You could see the ocean of difference between McCain getting an endorsement and Obama financing Wright, asking him to marry him, baptizing his children, etc. - if you weren't so blinded by your devotion to B. Hussein.

You can send the $100 to my paypal.

ibex

Mudpie to McSame, "How can I get my head any further up your ass, oh Great One?"

Chantytown

Indeed. In fact, it's much worse.

Obama's relationship with Wright was entirely apolitical. Where as John McCain specifically sought out the endorsement of that fucking douche bag knowing exactly what his views were.

neptune

All of that, and quit saying "My friends..."!

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ibex

You can send the $100 to my paypal.[/quote]

You have the option of the $100 or the limitted edition John McCain action figure. It's anatomically correct and a replica of McCain circa 1964, so I'm already guessing which choice you'll make on this one Mudpie!

bornright

He definitely owes you $100.