It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | John McCain Mixed Up With John Hagee, Just Like Mike Huckabee |
We have focused on the dangers of the link between Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and right wing extremist religious leader John Hagee. Really, though, this focus has not been completely fair. After all, Mike Huckabee is not the only Republican presidential candidate to associate himself with the violent, lunatic ideology promoted by Hagee. John McCain, it turns out, has linked himself to John Hagee as well.
In early 2007, John McCain and John Hagee had an “extended breakfast” meeting at which they discussed American foreign policy in the Middle East, including Hagee’s idea that Iran needs to be bombed so that the wars of Armageddon can begin and Jesus can return to Earth. Hagee has been working on all the practical items necessary to bring about prophecies of the end of the world, even including a breeding project in Texas to create a “perfect red heifer” to sacrifice to Jesus.
Then came summer, and the McCain for President campaign began openly courting the support of John Hagee and his cadre of right wing supporters. McCain announced that he would make a surprise speech before Hagee’s pro-Armageddon organization, Christians United for Israel.
John Hagee introduced John McCain himself, proudly saying, “I have had the privilege to meet and talk with Senator McCain on several occasions.” The two men then hugged, in a display of mutual political affection.
McCain, for his part, slathered praise on John Hagee’s organization, saying “God bless you, God bless you for your commitment,” and appreciating the groups vision of the United States as a “Judeo-Christian principled nation”.
As he embraces a political partnership with John Hagee, John McCain embraces Hagee’s outlandish religious political beliefs, which include:
- The idea that the European Union is involved in a conspiracy to place Satan at the head of a united world government
- Plans to create a theocratic regime that rules over the United States
- Use of the U.S. military to conduct religious warfare
- Claims that God himself planned the Nazi holocaust
- Belief in groups of terrorists organized by God and ready to attack the United States if Christian religious law is broken
If you don’t want a President who leads according to these kinds of beliefs, then you don’t want to see John McCain elected in 2008.
(Sources: John McCain speech at Christians United For Israel, 2007; AlterNet, January 30, 2007; People for the American Way; July 16, 2007)
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