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For weeks on end now, we have heard the MSM and the dems bleat on about how Obama can not be held accountable for his Jeremiah Wright, 20 year, pew-parked butt. It is unfair to challenge that relationship and it is down right racist to question it. Obama is a uniter and he can reach across the aisle and heal us all. And on, and on, and on.
Besides, we all know that John McCain has his own pastor problem. Right? Seriously, he allows such bigoted fools like John Hagee endorse him. And we all know that John Hagee is an anti-catholic bigot. So there. Stop giving Barack a hard time.
Or, maybe not. I know the MSM is going to give this story little or no play at all, but it is something worth acknowledging.
…”Evangelical leader John Hagee, one of John McCain’s highest-profile supporters from the religious right, has apologized for comments he made that were offensive to Catholics.”
The article goes on to further explain what lead to the apology and what both sides are now doing to move forward.
John McCain had this to say about the apology-
“I believe the fact that these two individuals came together is a laudable thing and a testimony to both individuals and their principles, which are Judeo-Christian values,” he said, adding that his campaign had nothing to do with brokering the apology.”
Now, McCain has publically stated that his campaign had nothing to do with this turn of events. Nor should it have had any part of it. McCain had already denounced the remarks and moved on. As well he should have.
I do find this development here interesting though. For all the talk of Obama being the great uniter and the one that can get us all to work together, I have questioned that assertion from the beginning. And my questions have stemmed more from who Obama surrounds himself with much more than the man himself.
Obama has publically denounced Jeremiah and thrown him under the bus. He has also publically denounced Louis Farrakhan. Neither of these two men have made any apologies to the millions of people they have offended nor have they apologized for the division their remarks have caused between us. One would think that if Obama were truly such a leader, he might be able to encourage some reconciliation. To date, all he has been able to do is allow those men (particularly Jeremiah) to become even more emboldened in their hate speech.
Now, you can draw what ever conclusions you so desire from this event. My conclusion is this.
Johnny Mac, for all the wailing and gnashing he causes us, may well, by his example, be the one to finally move us towards that reconciliation we most desperately need.
YMMV.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/13/pastor-hagee-apologizes-for-anti…
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