John McCain Breaks Ties with Reverend Hagee.
May 22nd, 2008 | by admin |Republican John McCain rejected the months-old endorsement of an influential Texas televangelist after an audio recording surfaced in which the preacher said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.
“Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well,” the presidential candidate said in a statement issued Thursday.
Wait just a minute… I’m not sure I understand what’s so offensive here? As a Christian I believe that God can use bad things for good purposes. What’s so wrong with suggesting that God used the terrible evil actions of Adolf Hitler to help the Jewish people reclaim the promised land? I don’t think Hagee was insinuating that it was God’s perfect plan to put Hitler in power and have him persecute the Jews. I say this because Reverend Hagee is very pro-Israel, he even has a book out titled “In Defense of Israel.” With that context I don’t know how this could be taken as anti-semitic. Unless there’s something I’m missing here… this seems like another case of political correctness run amok.
Now, I don’t know enough about Reverend Hagee or his sermons to make a complete judgment call on him one way or the other, but I think it’s kind of silly to use this statement as a reason to break ties with him.
This break has been in the making for quite some time. Liberal pundits have been calling Reverend Hagee ‘John McCain’s Reverend Wright’ because of other ‘controversial’ remarks made by the pastor. This is of course ludicrous because John McCain never attended Hagee’s church let alone held membership in that body. Barack Obama on the other hand was a member of Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years and has referred to Wright as his spiritual mentor.
What do you think?
By Political Muse on May 22, 2008
Oh come on Barnett, you are smarter than this. Hagee may be Pro-Israel but it is only because he believes he needs them to fulfill end times prophesy.
McCain sought out the endorsement of Hagee in order to make sure folks like yourself would like him and now that he is finding out what folks like Hagee truly believe he is abandoning him.
By Andy Barnett on May 22, 2008
You think he merely thinks of Israel as a pawn and he’s really anti-semitic? Interesting theory but I guess I’d need to see some evidence of an anti-semitic track record.
I said in the post, and I’ll re-state, I can’t vouch for everything Hagee has said, I don’t know much about him. I do know the tendency of the left to take things out of context and I also know how political correctness is out of control. In today’s climate anything that sounds like it might be controversial is automatically assumed to be controversial without a second thought.
Plus, I think the comparison of Hagee to Wright is insane. Barack Obama was a member of Wright’s church for 20 years and has said he was his spiritual mentor. Hagee is merely a pastor who endorsed McCain. McCain doesn’t even hardly know who Hagee is. It’s a stupid weak argument to say that it’s the same as Obama’s situation with Wright.
By Xenophon on May 25, 2008
Andy, so you’re suprised that a RINO phony like Juan McShamnesty will throw anyone he needs to under the bus (including the entire GOP conservative base)if he thinks it will help get him elected?
This Just In: FORMER Repub. Bob Barr just won the Libertarian Party nomination.
Don’t get trampled as about 30% (the Constitutionalist/Conservative base of the GOP) of the Party head for the exits of the so-called “big tent”.