McCain's buddy Hagee: Hitler was God's hunter

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:36pm

http://badidea.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/mccain-ally-hagee-hitler-was-sent-by-god-to-drive-jews-to-israel/

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:43pm

Jesus.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:48pm

That might be the most offensive thing I have ever heard.

WTF.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:52pm

I really hope I live to see the day when a presidential candidate can openly admit having NO religious inclination whatsoever.

This wouldn't have happened with Hillary! And no the man who holds the babies while she drinks their blood does NOT count as her pastor!

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:07pm

I agree religion has no place in politics. The problem with this is that John McCain needs these Evangelical votes. He has already repudiated Hagee's remarks but it really means squat. If you dig a little deeper you will find out how very anti-Semitic these peoples thinking is.

McCain lost the Jewish vote last week when he crossed line. Unless he picks Huckabee he is DOA.

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:18pm

"Unless he picks Huckabee he is DOA."
Except for the fact that Huckabee's hobby is telling jokes about Obama getting shot...

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:30pm

And much like Hagee he's a Rapturist. And while that might be great for votes, it's no way to dictate foreign policy.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:44pm

McCain hates Huckabee more than Obama hates Hillary.

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:48pm

But...more than Taz hates Obama?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 6:04pm

FLASH!

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USATODAY.com

ON POLITICS

By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence

McCain rejects Hagee's endorsement

Saying that he finds newly reported comments by Pastor John Hagee to be "deeply offensive and indefensible," Republican presidential candidate John McCain has just rejected the minister's endorsement, CNN's Political Ticker blog is reporting.

Political Ticker says that:

The Huffington Post had published a recording of Hagee saying that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel in accordance with biblical prophecy.

"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," McCain said in a statement to CNN Thursday.

Hagee's February endorsement of McCain has been controversial from the start, at first because of things the pastor said in the past about Catholics. McCain, who welcomed the prominent televangelist's support when it was given, quickly distanced himself from Hagee's views. But until today, he had not rejected the pastor's support.

Update at 4:33 p.m. ET: The Associated Press is on the story now.

Update at 4:07 p.m. ET. McCain's statement.

The senator's presidential campaign just sent his statement to the rest of the media. The full text, in which he mentions his Democratic rival's controversial former pastor, follows:

"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. I have said I do not believe Sen. Obama shares Rev. Wright's extreme views. But let me also be clear, Rev. 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."

McCain rejects Hagee's endorsement

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:58pm

He can't win without it.

[Namaste]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 9:29pm

I love how since Falwell croaked, Hagee has stepped into line.

One fat white man replaces another.