I note that John McCain has now raised the issue of Barack Obama's affiliation with the controversial Jeremiah Wright after vowing that his campaign would take the high road.
Given McCain's embrace of the blathering evangelical literalist John Hagee, that's hypocrisy in its purest sense. It also reveals the media's simpering devotion to McCain and its knee-jerk pro-Israel sympathies. The mainstream media is obsessed with Wright, but says little about McCain-Hagee.
Apparently you can spew vitriol about gays and the disastrous consequences of their parades as long as you don't "damn" America for it's genocidal history and it's murderous foreign policy. And you can blurt out anti-Semitism without repercussions as long as you voice support for America's staunch nuclear ally --Israel-- in the Middle East, even if that support is compromised by Israel's expected demise in the soon-to-come battle of Armageddon.
Which of the two --Wright or Hagee-- is truly delusional?
(The American Israel Public Affairs Committee --the most influential American pro-Israel lobby-- and the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman have embraced Hagee as well. McCain's hypocrisy pales in comparison.)
If Jeremiah Wright's damning of America is a campaign issue --only ignorance and intolerance makes it one in a country that separates church and state-- then McCain's embrace of the delusional, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic John Hagee, for "political" purposes, should surely be an even more legitimate, and publicized, campaign issue.
The God-fearing Christians have sure made a mess of things right down the line and all across the board.
The first atheist humanist rationalist who comes along gets my unqualified support. Unless it's Christopher Hitchens. Or Sam Harris. Or....
Oh, never mind.
Posted by: Steve R. | April 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM