I’m taking the bait russ, even though I know perfectly well, that YOU know perfectly well, that McCain not only ‘accepted’ this racist assholes endorsement, the SOUGHT IT! He went after it russ, because he is a flippin’ hypocrite, and a liar, and he didn’t just START lying. He went after this endorsement because Hagee has a huge congregation of other morons, and AND a whole bunch of money that the same morons, racists, and hate mongers give him.

Now his whole campaign staff is disintegrating because he finally figured out that it didn’t look so ‘straight talk express’ for him to have all of those LOBBYISTS surrounding him. So somebody decided that there would be a new rule that one couldn’t be a lobbyists, and ALSO a paid worker on his campaign staff. So..they all left to return to their lobbying jobs full time.
McCain “Proud” of Endorsement From John Hagee Who Calls Catholics “The Great Whore.” Where’s Tim Russert Now?
Posted February 29, 2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/mccain-prou d-of-endorse_b_89227.html

OK russ, there’s even a video with them together on this one.

McCain Defends Hagee: ‘He Said That His Words Were Taken Out Of Context.

On Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he repudiates “any comments” by hard-line conservative Pastor John Hagee “that are anti-semetic or anti-Catholic, racist, any other.” “I repudiate the words that create that impression,” said McCain.

But unlike his previous, half-hearted attempts to distance himself from Hagee, McCain also spoke up in the controversial pastor’s defense, saying that Hagee “said that his words were taken out of context”:

I will say that he said that his words were taken out of context, he defends his position. I hope that maybe you’d give him a chance to respond. He says he has never been anti-Catholic, but I repudiate the words that create that impression.

McCain then said he could look past Hagee’s bigoted comments because “when we were doing the No Surrender tour, he came and spoke on behalf of not surrendering in Iraq.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/11/mccain-hagee-hewitt/

John Hagee’s McCain Endorsement Sparks Uproar
NEW UPDATE MARCH 21, 2008: According to a New York Times magazine interview this week, John McCain sought out the endorsement of Hagee:

“It’s true that [John] McCain’s campaign sought my endorsement.”

NEW UPDATE MARCH 11, 2008: John McCain defended Pastor Hagee’s comments today, saying he believe Hagee’s claims that his statements were taken out of context

Then there’s this:

PERRspectives Blog: McCain, Hagee and Armageddon as Foreign Policy

Then there’s the real helpful stuff all in one neat little spot for you russ:

TPM’s Own McCain/Hagee Timeline
By Eric Kleefeld - May 23, 2008, 9:51AM

In the wake of John McCain’s public rejection of John Hagee’s endorsement, a prize he had sought for some time up until the Texas primary, we here at TPM have assembled a timeline documenting their political relationship from 2007 to the present.
Check it out here.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/0 5/tpms_own_mccainhagee_timeline.php

Have YOU ever read that in the bible russ? Yep, I bet you probably have. So it’s all just a big misunderstanding of course, and it’s all taken ‘out of context’ since he didn’t say it himself, those few hundred times in his sermons. It wasn’t him, it was the bible talking ‘out of context’ and all he was doing was repeating what the bible said. He says the same thing about Jews and homosexuals, and starts in on people of color from time to time as well, and you can look THAT shit up on your own.
I know, I know…he didn’t say the words, ‘spiritual advisor’. He just did everything he could to get the guys endorsement/money/votes of morons.
How does that surprise you? It’s from the McSame playbood as the shrub.

Rus7355 that somebody else on TD was probably Howard,as relentless as you in a lost cause.Israel is despised and for good reason,get used to it.

I think McCain also called Hagee a ‘strong leader’ and explained how pleased he was to have his endorsement.

Since this TOO, was WIDELY published, I’m not even gonna bother to provide any of the numerous links, because Russ has a full time job devoted to lying and denying and obfusciating.

Let him collect his troll paycheck from the McCain lobbyists and AIPAC.

We only have 6 more months to put up with him, unless the repugs run completely out of money first. Then again, he’d probably volunteer his troll time.

So, just 6 more months. Once Obama becomes president, russ will hightail it to Israel to take up residence.

As somebody else on TD noted the other day; the sun came up today in the East. Must be Israel’s fault. The bastards ~

John Hagee gave the keynote address last year at AIPAC’s annual convention.

Thank you Credo for trying to be nice. You almost succeeded. LOL

Now I’ll ask again. Where is the evidence that McCain actually knows Hagee or Parsley?

Yes, yes I read what you submitted at the top where you believe it would do the most good. But what I’ve still not seen, and you have not shown us, is anything, at all, that places McCain and Hagee or Parsley together as personally knowing each other.

Are you saying that McCain calling someone “A spiritual guide” is something more than me calling Smoky The Bear “A cartoon Forest Ranger”? Is Smoky The Bear “my forest ranger“‘? “My guide”? My forest advisor”? No, of course not. It’s simply a statement of fact.

When asked McCain said he does not attend either church, does not actually know Hagee or Parsley in any personal way, and they are not advisors to him.

Where, Credo, is there some evidence that McCain actually and personally know either Hagee or Parsley? Where is some evidence that McCain was attended to, or advised by, these two men? Can you show us that, please?

I love it. The GE hasn’t even really begun yet, and McCain is throwing weight into the sea! Sorry, Johnny, those holes in your record are not going to be plugged up by fat televangelists. };>

Where is the evidence that either Parsley or Hagee were ever McCain’s “advisors”. I think this distinction is important.

If McCain once relied on either of these men as advisors then that may tell us something about the Senator. I don’t, however, recall any claims that McCain actually has a relationship with Mr. Hagee or Mr. Parsley.