He "denounced" Hagee's statements upon immediately hearing them?

I guess giggling and saying "I'm anti anti anything" could qualify as a denunciation in someone's world.

McSame is such a weenie. He's not a very good campaigner, and he comes close to losing his cool when pressed on anything that strays from his talking points.

No wonder so many Rs hate his guts.

Ha!

Busted!

"I have said I do not believe Senator Obama shares Reverend Wright's extreme views. But let me also be clear, Reverend Hagee was not and is not my pastor or spiritual advisor, and I did not attend his church for twenty years. I have denounced statements he made immediately upon learning of them, as I do again today."

No you sleazy, shameless hypocrite. You only actively sought this scumbag's endorsement of your presidential campaign.

And you didn't seem to have a problem with Hagee's other hateful statements. You're still fine with Parsley's endorsement. And you didn't have a problem speaking at Falwell's university even though he said gays caused 9/11.

As pointed out here or on Andrew Sullivan (I can't remember) there is a big difference between a spiritual relationship (Obama - Wright) and a political relationship (McCain - Hagee). The latter I care about much more.

will he blame early onset alzheimers for the fact that he couldn't youtube hagee or discover before hand he said some ridiculous shit.

he knew.

someone should ask him how, if he truly did not know, does that reflect on his ability as a potential president.

how many days until this man's head explodes?

If this is "straight talkin," then I'm the Emperor of Freedonia.

How many debates did Clinton-Obama have? I want at least twice that between McCain and Obama. They're going to be classic.

I just had to.

Joe stopped tucking me in at night.

I don't understand the flap over McCain's pastor. That a candidate's pastor has no relevance has already been established on Obama blogs again and again and again and again and...

What we are now (and have been for weeks) seeing is the trailer to the upcoming comedy "Mr. Magoo Goes to Washington (If He Can Find It)". Get your popcorn ready and enjoy!

The whole thing is idiotic on McCain's part and on the part of the media.

I'm shocked, frankly, that no Democrat has ever had the presence of mind to point out that this old moron McCain couldn't even say what denomination he belonged to when asked! For years he listed his denomination as Episcopal but just this year when asked directly could not say, fumbled around about it and then indicated he might be Baptist which, if course, is nothing but a lie.

The truth is, he belongs to and attends no church whatsoever and that's fine by me. But as a Republican he cannot be honest about that so he lies with impunity and no one in the press or even in the Democratic Party points out this obvious lie so he gets away with it. Nonetheless, the reality is that for a swine like McCain he must please the moronic right wing masses of his party by claiming some church affiliation so he plucked Baptist out of the air. His hypocrisy and that of the Republicans in general on this, and perhaps most especially for the allegedly religious right Republicans is beyond description. The squad of televangelist hucksters who lead the religious right are no different than the oil industry: they have allied with the Republican Party to protect their profits! No more, no less.

Given this reality, where the fuck does McCain get off questioning anything regarding Obama's church, pastor or anything else? At least Obama GOES to church and he knows which one he goes to and doesn't lie about it! Imagine what would happen to Obama in the press if he told people he belonged to one church one day and then said he belonged to a different denomination the next day? The howling would outlive us all!

One has to wonder if any of the overpaid fools who comprise the McCain cheering section of the US corporate media have even asked him how he can equate going out of one's way to seek the endorsement of a complete and utter buffoon who has made a career and business empire out of picking the pockets of gullible simpleton's in the name of fundamentalist Christianity vs someone like Wright who, even if you don't like his beliefs, has been a well respected leader in a mainline Protestant denomination.

McCain Pastor: Islam Is a 'Conspiracy of Spiritual Evil'
McCain Called Pastor 'One of the Truly Great Leaders in America'
By BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI
May 22, 2008—

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4905624

Excerpt:

Despite his call for the U.S. to win the "hearts and minds of the Islamic world," Sen. John McCain recruited the support of an evangelical minister who describes Islam as "anti-Christ" and Mohammed as "the mouthpiece of a conspiracy of spiritual evil."

McCain sought the support of Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio at a critical time in his campaign in February, when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was continuing to draw substantial support from the Christian right.

At a campaign appearance in Cincinnati, McCain introduced Parsley as "one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide."

Campaign aides positioned Parsley right behind McCain for photographers, apparently unconcerned about Parsley's well-established denunciations of the Islamic faith in a book "Silent No More" and on DVDs of sermons about Islam.

"Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world," Parsley says on the DVDs reviewed by ABC News.

"America was founded with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed," Parsley says, "and I believe Sept. 11, 2001 was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore."

Parsley's views and his connection to the McCain campaign are now beginning to show up on Arab Web sites and newspapers.

Al Moheet, a regional Arabic Web site operating in Egypt, carries the story with a picture of McCain and the headline: "McCain's Spiritual Adviser Calls for the Destruction of Islam."

And what does this say about McCain's JUDGEMENT???????

I have denounced statements he made immediately upon learning of them, as I do again today."

Anyone else feel like John McCain's turning into Mitt Romney?

Will the media now ignore McCain's rejection of Hagee and continue playing Hagee clips ad infinitum...just as they did with Obama? I'm thinking "no".

Billy Graham was Clinton adviser and she seek her help during the Lewinsky scandal. The same Graham who was Nixon adviser!

Personally, I think tagging McCain with the moniker "Rufus T. Firefly" would be a good idea. With apologies to Groucho, of course.

Peace,
Paul

If only Wright would have "withdrawn" himself like Hagee did...

well, I guess he did, in a way (by attacking Obama as a "politician")

Now, will McCain reject his "spiritual advisor" Rob Parsley?

McBush excels at being experienced and manly as he compares himself to Obama...this shows what skills he has in judgement by seeking and accepting a presidential endorsement while he has no idea what this dude believes or preaches! I guess his lobbyist team failed him again!

McCain does here what only idiots without a real base of defense do: they attack the other guy without any basis or context for doing so. For example, if the debate is "Is chicken good?" you don't say "no because beef is better". That doesn't make sense.

Bringing up Rev. Wright when the issue has NOTHING to do with Obama, and when no one ever mentioned a thing concerning Obama is an extremely childish debate tactic. To be honest. I hope McCain keeps it up. If this is a sign of how he's going to fight it out with Obama in November, things might be a lot easier than some people think.

McCain rejected Hagee's antiCatholism and his pro-Hitler statements. But McCain apparently still stands firmly behind Hagee's statement that Katrina was retribution for New Orleans' embrace of homosexuals. And no one in the mainstream media seems to feel the need to question the McCain campaign about that.

Well, what took desperate Puppet Daddy McCain so long? And how can we trust his judgement.

Hagee's problems have been long documented. McCain obviously doesn't watch Bill Moyers, for example.

America's jews will have to ask themselves why McCain associated with a hate mongering anti-semite whose vile words have been around for the last ten years. McCain knew Hagee was trouble and paid no attention to those telling him how Hagee wants the Soviet Union to fight Israel and restore christianity to the country. Hagee believes in the End Game. McCain sought him out, embraced, kept, defended Hagee. Got mad when people wondered why McCain didn't see what everyone else did. And now, McCain just wants people to stay stupid and ignore what he did on this matter.

How must it feel to know they were going to embrace McCain, a man who sided up to an anti-semite. How must Florida's jews feel now. Does McCain have a jewish problem too? Again, McCain begged for Hagee to being his evangelicals and the CUFIdiots of which Lieberman is a part. Like he thought marrying Cindy would get him in with the Arizona mob.

Next up, Florida, will be McCain supporter, Reverend Rod Parsley.

The whole thing reeks, stinks. Depressing. Why do I have a feeling McCain will have zero negative of this charade while Obama will be willified all the way through?

Politics and religon- two disgusting institutions when combined.

The important point here is that McCain now finds himself imitating Obama. This marks him as playing catch-up ball, a very hopeful sign.

Behind it all is the blogospheric insistence on parity of judgment with respect to the candidates, largely absent from the traditional media. It is remarkable that this force has carried the day.