Loading ...Three months later, McCain rejects Hagee endorsement
flockwoodBy LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press Writer
UNION CITY, Calif. (AP) — Republican John McCain has rejected the endorsement of an influential Texas televangelist criticized for his anti-Catholic views.
John Hagee, the Texas preacher, withdrew his endorsement at the same time.
McCain issued a statement after audio surfaced in which Hagee said God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.
McCain said in a statement: “Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well.”
Hagee also issued a statement saying he was tired of baseless attacks and he was removing himself from any active role in the 2008 campaign.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I believe McCain is trying to avoid any kind of controversy like Obama and his former pastor were involved in, the thing that I can’t quite get is this; what was it Hagee was trying to gain by endorsing McCain? We may never know, was there a hidden motive? And if he did like McCain, does he still now? We may never know.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Explain to me why Insurance can call hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes acts of God, but when preachers stand behind the pulpit and say they are an act of God we want to say the preacher is nuts?
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I can’t say within any real certainty, other than what Jesus promised us, we’re going to have as many if not more of the world hate us as love us, John 17:14 ‘I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.’ The words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.