McCain Throws His Pastor Under the Bus
I hope this is the last time we hear of John Hagee and his extremist religious ideas. Audio tapes surfaced of a Hagee sermon in which he talks about the founding of the modern state of Israel:
"How is God going to bring them back to the land? The answer is fishers and hunters. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and forces you. Hitler was a hunter. That will be offensive to some people. Well, dear 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.'"John McCain quickly denounced the statements and rejected Hagee's earlier endorsement. Hagee himself retracted his endorsement.
Jeffrey Weiss, in The Dallas Morning News Religion blog, citing earlier reports of Hagee's offensive attitude towards gays, towards blacks, towards, Catholics, asks, "What is so beyond the pale about Hagee's most recently publicized quotes that make them so much worse than all the others that had long been in the public record?"
It's a good question that I can only speculate on an answer. I suppose it is a matter of the straw that broke the camel's back. McCain just got tired of fending off questions about why he sought and welcomed the endorsement of this lunatic religious nut. After all, the original endorsement was out of political expediency. Why should throwing Hagee under the bus now be explained any other way? McCain is not a religious bigot. In fact, I've seen no evidence that McCain has a religious thought in his head. Why would he want to have to continually defend lunatic theology?
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