McCain courts another kooky preacher pal, which would give him a 3-1 lead over Obama in that category
March 15th, 2008 at 08:41pm Pat Cunningham
In the beginning, Barack Obama had the redoubtable Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
John McCain, never one to be outdone, soon came up with his own inflammatory clergyman in the person of the notoriously anti-Catholic Rev. John Hagee.
Then, while Obama was busy dealing with questions about Wright’s insensitive pulpit pronouncements, McCain stole a march by winning the support of the hateful Rev. Rod Parsley.
Lately, McCain has been working hard in quest of a two-kook lead in this dunderhead derby. He’s been whispering sweet nothings into the ear of another anti-Catholic standout, Tim LaHaye (above). And this guy’s anti-Jewish to boot.
LaHaye’s views are SO ODIOUS that he got canned from Jack Kemp’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination 20 years ago.
Entry Filed under: Tim LaHaye, Rod Parsley, John Hagee, John McCain, Barack Obama
6 Comments Add your own
1. Kaus | March 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Gee, I would say Obama has the lead 1 - 0 in being a MEMBER of a kooky church. AND I am glad that at least you admit that Rev. Wright is a kooky preacher.
2. Kaus | March 16th, 2008 at 5:42 am
In addition, Tim Lahaye endorsed Huckabee in the primaries. And I have found nothing to your anti-jewish allegation. This is minor stuff though, every religion thinks it is the best. I can even hear arguments between methodists and baptists. Nit pick.
3. Mike Carroll | March 17th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
OOPS
“Barack Obama insists he wasn’t present at his local church when his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made incendiary remarks attacking America. Mr. Obama also insists he wasn’t aware of many of Rev. Wright’s controversial opinions.
His claims may already be unraveling. Ron Kessler of Newsmax.com reports that on July 22 of last year, Mr. Obama was at Mr. Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. He was observed in the pews by Jim Davis, a freelance reporter for Newsmax, and was also seen to be nodding in agreement with the fiery minister’s remarks. In his sermon that day, Mr. Wright condemned America as the “United States of White America” and said young blacks were “dying for nothing” in Iraq. He called the Iraq war an “illegal” war based on lies and “fought for oil money.” The Obama campaign says that the candidate did not attend church services that day, flying instead to speak to an Hispanic group in Chicago. Mr. Kessler stands by his story.
Still more evidence has surfaced that Mr. Obama likely knew a great deal about the content of his pastor’s sermons. Last year, the New York Times reported Mr. Obama personally called Mr. Wright to tell him he was being disinvited from giving the public invocation at the announcement of Mr. Obama’s candidacy. Mr. Obama explained the move by pointing out to his pastor that a recent Rolling Stone story called “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama” had reprinted excerpts from Wright sermons. “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public,” was Rev. Wright’s recollection of what Mr. Obama told him.
The Rolling Stone story included the following Wright quote describing the United States: “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS…. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God…. We conducted radiation experiments on our own people…. We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!… GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S***!”
At least one member of Rev. Wright’s church apparently had her fill of such rhetoric. Oprah Winfrey, a staunch backer of Mr. Obama, began attending the church in 1984. But sometime in the mid-1990s, Christianity Today reports the superstar abruptly stopped going. It may well have had something to do with her desire to distance herself from his fiery speech. Rev. Wright criticized her absence, claiming that Ms. Winfrey has broken with his notion of “traditional faith.”
Mr. Obama took a different path. He not only remained in the church, but in 2001, the same year Ms. Winfrey left, had his daughter Natasha baptized by Rev. Wright. The question more and more people are asking is: Why?”
– John Fund
4. Pat Cunningham | March 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Mike: Newsmax is running a correction on Kessler’s erroneous report. So is the New York Times, which carried a Bill Kristol column that repeated Kessler’s error. It turns out that Obama was in Florida on the day in question.
5. Pat Cunningham | March 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Mike: Check out this: http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1797602/did-kessler-make-false-claim-about-obama/
6. Mike Carroll | March 17th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Pat-Thanks for the update. I checked out the linked article.
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