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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: zeta1961 who wrote (13885)3/17/2008 1:20:28 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
McCain/Hagee is MUCH WORSE than Obama/Wright...this is from a poster on the MyDD blog:

Jeremiah Wright is a complicated man with some paranoid political views. But he's a very well-respected theologian in the United Church of Christ, a mostly white denomination. Obama came to Wright while doing community organizing in Chicago. Wright turned Obama to Jesus and counseled his family for years. Obama was undoubtedly exposed to Wright's afrocentric theology, though how rhetorically excessive when Obama was in attendance is hard to say. Read the Audacity to Hope sermon and you can see the appeal of Jeremiah Wright to anybody. Obama decided that the fellowship and pastorship of Wright outweighed the strident afrocentrism of Wright's politics. Lots of other highly respected blacks in Chicago decided the same. Most importantly, Obama didn't turn to TUCC or Wright BECAUSE of those incendiary sermons. He turned to Wright for reasons that most people turn to preachers.

But McCain made a decision to seek Hagee's support and declare Rod Parsley a spiritual adviser AFTER knowning the two preachers' bigotry. In fact, I would argue that McCain turned to Hagee and Parsley BECAUSE they were bigots and had appeal among the fundamentalist base in the GOP that he needed for support. McCain's embrace of these preachers was far more cynical and wicked than Obama's relationship with Wright.

by elrod on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 08:53:49 PM EST
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