HEY MSNBC……THE HAGEE/McCAIN RELATIONSHIP IS NOT ANALOGOUS TO WRIGHT/OBAMA…..THE PROPER ANALOGY IS HAGEE/McCAIN = OBAMA/FARRAKHAN
Chris Matthew’s lead story is predictably…….McCain denouncing Hagee….is this really the biggest story of the day?
Chris Matthews has Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell join the discussion…….PREDICTABLY…….no one points out that Hagee was NEVER McCain’s pastor….In fact, McCain has never been to a sermon of Hagee’s……
Yes, McCain sought out Hagee’s endorsement……….Just like Obama sought out Farrakhan’s endorsement……Lets not forget that Obama marched with Farrakahn at the Million Man March…..keep in mind, Farrakhan’s mosque is in Obama’s Senate District, and former State Senate Disctrict…..they know each other well….
IF MSNBC WANTS TO ASSOCIATE MCCAIN WITH HAGEE (A PASTER WHO ENDORSED HIM, THATS IT)…………THAN AS RESPONSIBLE, AND FAIR, JOURNALISTS…….THEY SHOULD ASSOCIATE OBAMA WITH LOUIS FARRAKHAN (A PASTOR WHO CONTINUES TO ENDORSE HIM)…………..
MSNBC…….ENOUGH………STOP INSULTING YOUR VIEWERS WITH YOUR BIAS
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May 22, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Hi Ray,
I hope you’re having a good day. I read your post and completely agree. This analogy between Hagee and Wright is inaccurate. I did want to point out one item I think you are neglecting (of course). McCain draws the comparison in his renouncing of Hagee. He is the one who brings up Wright and thus, opens the door for the liberal media. It was a bad political move; maybe it wouldn’t have been made had he some lobbyists to help him out. hehehe.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/22/mccain-rejects-hagee-endorsement/
Hope you’re good,
EP
May 23, 2008 at 12:21 am
agreed…..i’m sure he’ll recant….or maybe add farrakhan as an addendum
May 23, 2008 at 1:33 am
I am not sure I follow. McCain renounced Hagee. Obama did not until the press was deep into it, and clearly lied indicating nominal involvement with the church. Why is it bad smacking the liberal (and ignorant) liberal media for not digging into the Wright issue and subsequent behavior of their favorite candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.
May 23, 2008 at 4:59 am
Yeah, I’m not too sure why Obama wasn’t out trashing John McCain today about this instead of being in South Florida meeting with Jewish voters. Maybe you can explain it to me better?
May 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I was just saying that I really admire the fact that McCain renounced Hagee’s endorsement. I really wish that Obama would do the same for Wright. I agree with your previous statement as well, I don’t think it was bad to “smack” a liberal; all is fair in love and war. I just think that by McCain pointing out Wriight in his speech renouncing Hagee he drew the parallel between the two situations. I don’t think his attack was unethical; I think it had the opposite effect than he intended. A metaphor: You can practice character assasination, but the corpse will attract vultures.
I knew you’d like the metaphor.
May 24, 2008 at 5:16 am
MAYBE PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE TO PANDER TO THE BASE LEVELS OF THE AMERICIAN POLITICAL SIC SYSTEM. JUST MAYBE THE SALVATION OF THE USA AND THE WORLD IS A HALF BLACK MAN. WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT . I KNOW WHO THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD…
AS SALAAM ALAIKUM
May 24, 2008 at 7:21 am
I spent some time today putting all of Religious Endorsement Gate into context of time and of each other. I think it outlines why they are related, and in both cases the needless attacks were hypocritical. Take a look, note the date April 9th, and outside my small commentary, pay attention to the dates and events.
May 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Sorry, unless McCain went to Israel for an AIPAC meeting that Hagee ran, I can’t get around to the Obama-Farrakhan analogy.
Or at least went to a pro-Israel march planned by Hagee.
May 26, 2008 at 3:52 pm
LEE,
Let’s not jump the gun and call OBAMA president. He is only a VERY JR senator from Illinois.
Get over yourself and your skin color.
This is 2008, not 1968……most people are not racist anymore….and anyone who is racist, is shunned (as they should be) in today’s society.
People do not care about the color of your skin….just accept it as reality, and move on.
My family survived the Holocaust. Do you see Jews talking about how our ancestors were burned in ovens less than a century ago..and using it as an excuse to not move forward and get ahead in life? If you stop talking about skin color, and your past oppression,and start focusing on what you can do to help your people get ahead in life-you will be much better off.
May 27, 2008 at 1:01 am
Let’s NOT lose sight of the fact the Hagee was never McCain’s pastor. The word pastor, by the way, means “shepherd”. Obamma’s shepherd for many years was, gues who?….the right Rev. Wright.
June 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm
more in hagee’s words , the condemnation of babylon in rev.
September 22, 2008 at 1:38 am
X Slave, it’s SENATOR Obama – BIG difference. Second, if you’re so unhappy in America, as your website indicates, why don’t you move to a Muslim country? Third Obama is NOT EVEN HALF black as you say – check his lineage. Fourth, the ’salvation of USA’, as you say, (or ANY country) could not possibly exist in an individual that refuses to honor that country’s flag. Besides, the USA doesn’t need saving. It needs to turn back to the Bible and return to the graces of our sovereign God. Once we do that, everything else will fall into place.
Finally, “X SLAVE”, as you prefer to call yourself, I’m certain you haven’t been a slave one day in your life – your ancestors maybe. I’ve never had slaves or owned one nor my ancestors. Like a lot of us, we were too poor, so give it a rest already. My ancestors are a mix: Irish, German, Indian, et al. & all endured persecution. We prefer not to waste our time or energy living in the past and harboring ill will. It’s individuals such as yourself that feed the flame of racisim sitting on your “pity pot” rather than focusing on your own personal internal changes. Quit complaining that the rose bushes have thorns and start rejoicing that the thornbushes have roses.
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington c. 1911
The most prominent black American of his era, himself born a slave, Booker T. Washington advocated an up-by-the-bootstraps self-improvement philosophy.
“To those of my race who… underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are’ – cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. …”
(1856-1915)
Lecturer, Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Organization Executive/Founder, Author/Poet