Now, I know this is the age of swiftboating, but with all the obsessiveness over Obama's pastor, we really ought to at least hear a bit of the same about McCain.
After all, on different occasions, McCain has been "very honored", "very proud", "glad", etc, to have Mr Hagee's endorsement. Even if McCain claims to "condemn" the man's views. Hagee likes to say the Catholic Church is, well, our profanity rule prevents me from quoting the man. Hagee says Hurricane Katrina is God's punishment for the city planning a gay pride parade.
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Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: "'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that."
He goes on: "Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust.
"Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says—Jeremiah writing—'They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,' meaning there's no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don't let your heart be offended. I didn't write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel."
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Sources:
1. "McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran'," Think Progress, February 28, 2008.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3553&id=12705-6839633-ajeENp&t=2
2. "The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam," Salon, February 29, 2008.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/29/hagee/
3. "McCain Admits Hagee Endorsement Was A Mistake," ABC News, April 20, 2008.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3685&id=12705-6839633-ajeENp&t=3
4. Press Release, John Hagee Ministries Website.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3688&id=12705-6839633-ajeENp&t=4
5. "Pastor John Hagee on Christian Zionism," NPR, May 22, 2008.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6097362
6. "McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will," Huffington Post, May 21, 2008.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3687&id=12705-6839633-ajeENp&t=5
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