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May 22nd, 2008 9 Comments

Even though the Hagee hate speech has been on the record for years – long before McCain sought out his endorsement, he tepidly repudiates Hagee today, while also making a tired attack on Obama.

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  1. Dave in SoCal says:
    May 22, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    From the link:

    “I have said I do not believe Senator Obama shares Reverend Wright’s extreme views. But let me also be clear, Reverend Hagee was not and is not my pastor or spiritual advisor, and I did not attend his church for twenty years. I have denounced statements he made immediately upon learning of them, as I do again today.”

    What isn’t know is whether McCain also stated that he could no more disown Hagee than he could his own anti-Semite grandmother.

  2. SpiderJ says:
    May 22, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    McCain’s getting really skilled at the verbal acrobatics. He manages to say, in the span of three sentences, “Obama should not be judged on his association with Reverend Wright” and “Obama should definitely be judged on his association with Reverend Wright.”

    And yes, there’s a significant difference between Hagee’s relationship with McCain and Obama’s relationship with Wright. Obama’s relationship with Wright is personal, and familial. Obama befriended Wright long before Wright said God Damn America. By the time Wright had made his offending comments–which were, by the by, nowhere near as alarming as what Hagee is saying–Obama could speak to him man-to-man, and as it turned out, agree to disagree.

    McCain had no long-standing personal association with Hagee. He sought out his support AFTER Hagee had proven himself batshit crazy.

  3. Dave in SoCal says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    McCain’s getting really skilled at the verbal acrobatics.

    I agree, McCain’s definitely getting into Obama-class territory. In the speech quoted by Oliver here, Obama goes from “I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country” to “McCain doesn’t support our veterans” and “McCain is using our veterans for political posturing” in a similarly short span of sentences.

  4. matt621 says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    I’m sure it would have been much more soaring rhetoric if he’d only had 6, no, make that 12 weeks to work on it.

    And of course, the most tepid attacks are the ones you can’t possibly refute… funny, that’s not how I define tepid.

  5. Duros62 says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    I’ll say it again; shouldn’t you check someone’s resume BEFORE you hire them? (I know he wasn’t hired the way some of his lobbyists..,er, I mean campaign staff were).

    Hagee said

    “I am tired of these baseless attacks and fear that they have become a distraction in what should be a national debate about important issues.

    Baseless attacks? What is baseless about it? You said those things. We found out you said those things. On tape. It makes you a horrid human being. What’s baseless about that?

  6. SpiderJ says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    Really, Matt? McCain’s had years to deliver even one speech for the ages on any topic of his choosing. He has forgone the opportunity.

    Actually, Dave, Obama’s quoted paragraph states very clearly that “McCain has always supported our veterans, so I can’t understand why he’d be opposed to this bill now.”

  7. Dave in SoCal says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Sorry Spider, but nowhere in the speech quoted does Obama say anything even close to resembling ““McCain has always supported our veterans”. Look again:

    “I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can’t understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI bill. I can’t believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue. There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.”

    Instead he says:

    I respect McCain for his service.
    McCain is siding with Bush (against this bill).
    McCain thinks this bill is too generous to our veterans.
    McCain is denying our veterans the chance to go to college for partisan posturing.

    His “can’t understand why” and “can’t believe” statements are obviously meant to imply that McCain should, as a veteran himself, support this bill but doesn’t.

  8. Duros62 says:
    May 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    And your point is what?

  9. Duros62 says:
    May 23, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Yeah, that’s what I thought.