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MooseFET wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...r_n_89189.html

February 29, 2008

John Hagee's McCain Endorsement Sparks Uproar

ABC reports:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...endorseme.html

Calling Pastor John Hagee a "bigot," the conservative Catholic League
is calling for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to denounce/renounce/reject
his endorsement Wednesday.

With a Youtube link to prove his point, Catholic League president Bill
Donohue said Hagee "has waged an unrelenting war against the Catholic
Church.

For example, he likes calling it 'The Great Whore,' an 'apostate
church,' the 'anti-Christ,' and a 'false cult system.' ..."Senator
Obama has repudiated the endorsement of Louis Farrakhan, another
bigot.

McCain should follow suit and retract his embrace of Hagee." ...

McCain spox Jill Hazelbaker says, "Hagee endorsed John McCain. While
we welcome his support, it shouldn't be seen as a wholesale
endorsement of all of Mr. Hagee's views."

Donohue's full statement is here,
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1394 and Salon.com's
Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating interview with him here.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwa...hue/index.html

The progressive group Catholics United has also written a letter to
McCain asking him to "publicly distance himself" from Hagee's views.
http://www.catholics-united.org/?q=node/136

TPM's Greg Sargent notes the lack of mainstream media coverage of
Hagee compared to Farrakhan (whose support Obama has rejected):
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...hagee_post.php

Very much like Farrakhan, Hagee has regularly made remarks about
current events and other religions that many would find alarming.

But unlike Farrakhan, he has never truly faced the scrutiny of the
mainstream press, and major politicians like Joe Lieberman and John
McCain have freely associated with him.

In 2006, Hagee laid out his views on eschatology in a book called
Jerusalem Countdown, in which he claimed that sources had told him a
year earlier about world events to come -- and amazingly enough, all
those predictions had come true over the past year.

Next on the agenda, according to his March 2006 interview in Human
Events: Israel would go to war with Iran before May 2006.

And from there, Hagee eagerly anticipated an all-out world war against
Iran and Russia, followed by the Second Coming.

Watch McCain explain how proud he is of Hagee's endorsement:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...r_n_89189.html

UPDATE: McCain refused to reject Hagee's support during a press
availability today

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I'd call it a double standard, wouldn't you Jim Crook and MikHell
Terribly-Ill?

Hey, crap posting impostor, you are getting boringly obvious.