McCain On Wright.............Nauseating!

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/04/28 · 10:07

Before Sunday, John McCain hadn’t ventured into the controversy surrounding the comments made by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Barack Obama’s former pastor. Mr. McCain even asked Republicans in North Carolina not to broadcast an ad that questioned Mr. Obama’s connection to Reverend Wright.

But Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, shifted his tone in Florida on Sunday, reports Michael Cooper of The New York Times.
But Mr. McCain took a different approach at a news conference here when he criticized Mr. Wright for, as the senator paraphrased him, "comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior, I mean being involved in that" and for "saying that Al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags." ...

Mr. McCain said that he did not believe that Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, shared those views and that he was still against the advertisement in North Carolina. But he suggested that Mr. Obama had made the subject fair play by declaring in an interview shown over the weekend on "Fox News Sunday" that questions about Mr. Wright were "a legitimate political issue."

http://www.nytimes.com/

As Jake Tapper notes in his column:

"Wright never said "al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags." He compared Americans thinking that God blesses US military actions that kill innocent civilians with the belief of al Qaeda. He decried "making a pre-emptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing that al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag -– calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem."

John McCain has some nerve criticizing Rev. Wright for making what McCain implies are unpatriotic remarks, when he is endorsed by an extreme right-wing evangelical demagogue posing as a religious figure who blames Katrina on New Orleans’s decision to hold a gay pride parade. (He neglects to explain how it was that Mississippi suffered greatly as well, but I’m sure he will come up with some equally offensive excuse.)

Is anyone in the media following Rev. Hagee around. No.
It’s time for the media to come out of their trance.

It would seem only fair, that viewers and readers see some sermons by Rev. John hater-of-Catholics Hagee.

What is worse, it is astoundingly hypocritical of McCain to has accepted the endorsements from people he once referred to as "agents of intolerance."

Obama, in contrast, absolutely repudiated Rev. Wright’s comments more times than anyone can count and has essentially broken off relations with him.

This is yet another example of McCain and other right wing, radical republicans speaking from both sides of their mouth.

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