JC Weatherby,

Hagee, while certainly a loon, is an individual and is permitted to endorse anyone he chooses. What would be against campaign finance laws would be for his church to endorse a candidate.

If that were to happen I’m sure the media would be all over it.

Hagee’s comments advertise that he is one or two steps from insanity, mean-spiritedness, self-delusion, egomania or all of the above.

What amazes me is that Rev Wright has caused 2 months or more of media headlines and Obama attacks while Hagee who makes Rev. Wright look normal is getting a few minutes.

In addition, Pappy McCain has no trouble rejecting him in a heartbeat, for it’s not what is right it is what is expedient.

Where is the fairness in the media? McCain has gotten a free ride just as George W. Bush, a deserter, an alcoholic, a failed businessman, and a drug-user did.

Whom is the media trying to get elected?

“No; all that was fine with McCain. But then the news surfaced that Hagee said something that Israel and the Jews didn’t like. All of a sudden, Hagee was radioactive.”
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Thank you Non Credo for highlighting to me the Israeli factor in McCain’s change of heart about Hagee. I think this is the ultimate explanation, and I thank you again for bringing it to my attention!

Frostedflakes, NonCredo and others....

It still seems to me the most basic question is; is there any evidence that McCain actually knows Hagee? Or is McCain simply doing what all politicians do in seeking as many endorsements as possible? I fail to see how anyone can fault McCain for being a politician playing the game of politics.

Do you really wish to set up a situation whereas every politician must now know and endorse every union, church or trade group leader before they ask for an endorsement? Is it truly feasible to require anyone running for office to comment on what strangers say after they receive an endorsement? Is it not correct that Obama fans keep telling anyone that will listen how unfair it is to judge Obama by what Rev. Wright thinks and says? But Obama fans are now the loudest in making Hagee an issue. Does that not smack of hypocrisy?

Here’s the problem Sen. Obama has with Rev. Wright. Mr. Obama has made it clear that Wright was once his close and trusted “mentor” and “advisor”. I know of no such claim from McCain regarding Hagee.

Well felicity! Though the truth of your statement-metaphor hit me real hard, I feel like going into a state of denial that it’s really so. How painful that it has to be that way! And isn’t there a better way to do public service to one’s country without prostitution?!

The one who would answerer this question convincingly will get the reward of helping restore faith to someone who is bordering on loosing it for ever!

It seems that you always have some kind of unrational conclusion to the most clear cut similarities. Why would one man’s influence be stronger than the other, particularly when Hagee is the head of a mega-church that broadcasts internationally on a daily basis?

So the best candidate the neocons have to offer to America is a man who goes out of his way to get the endorsement of a fanatic preacher, and stand happily with him on a stage, shaking his hand warmly, with that fake-yellowish smile of his.

Then weeks later, when somebody told him that this preacher’s endorsement might hurt his chances, he comes to offer his excuse that he really didn’t know what the preacher said or what he stood for.

This is called in my dictionary an excuse that’s even worse than the original sin. And yet, there are people, who obviously care more about partisan politics than caring about the future of this country, still consider this disaster-in-the-making as a savior!!

Why is this not as big of an albatross around the neck for McCain as Rev. Wright was and is for Obama. Also not to mention that McCain also has and had the endorsement of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

Thisguy,

I don’t understand what Rev. Wright has to do with McCain or Hagee.

Do we know if McCain actually knows Hagee? I mean aside from standing on a stage with the fruitcake and shaking his hand? Seeking an endorsement?

What does Sen. Obams’s 20 year close personal relationship with Rev. Wright have to do with McCain?

This McCain/Hagee business seems odd to me.

Clinton, Obama and McCain are seeking endorsements of thousands of people and thousands or groups. This is all an attempt to receive a block of voters, right?

It’s not possible for every candidate to comment on every word uttered by every person who may endorse him or her. Is that really what we want or what’s needed? Candidates from City Council to President will seek out anyone and everyone for a potential endorsement. That’s the nature of the game, yes?

Preachers, teachers, lawyers and farmers. Unions from the Fraternal Order of Police to the UAW. NGO’s and the Coalition of Plumbers. Do candidates have to actually endorse the front man with each of these thousands of groups representing millions of people?

Now, honestly, if someone has knowledge of McCain endorsing Hagee, and the things he utters, I would think that an issue worth considering. That may show us something about what the candidate may think and feel. Or, to really get down to it, is there any knowledge that Hagee and McCain actually know each other? At least outside of the process of a political endorsement?

Again, McCain, Obama and Clinton, and every man and woman who’s ever sought public office is doing, and it will continue, is to seek these endorsements from people they don’t actually know. So who cares what Hagee thinks and believes? What’s that have to do with a candidate for public office? No matter who that is.

McCain is hurting for money.  He apparently needed Hagee because he represented a constituency of campaign donors (and potential voters.)

If nothing else, McCain’s dilemna blatantly reflects a basic sickness in American politics.  You have to crawl into bed, prostitute yourself in other words with anybody and everybody - picking and choosing not advised.

As a matter of fact, politicians must constantly prostitute themselves; it’s the way American politics work; it’s the way you get a seat and/or keep a seat.  (Any prostitute knows that if you don’t go to bed with the guy, you’re not going to get paid.)

... the ONLY one with a Pastor Problem?