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Ah a discussion, thats much better!
To your rebuttal, I call his "apology" load of s***, its nothing more than a Political motivated sideshow of "cover-your candidates-butt". I don't buy it for a second.
Hagee made these comments back in March and he apologized for it yesterday, it took 3 months to make an apology, he certainly took his time, didn't he? Thats pretty unbelievable.
Its totally obvious what happened. The American Catholic Groups told McCain that they would shift their support to Obama (which would have certainly cost McCain Ohio) unless a public retraction was made. Thats what happened. Catholics a swing voter blog, McCain cannot lose them or he's already lost the race.
Nor is it the first time Hagee has said something like this. It be one thing if this was a casual slip of the tongue. If you read Hagee literature and sermons you'd see he has been bashing the Catholic Church since 1987. In US history the Southern Methodist/Baptist have long despised Catholicism, these comments are not anything new.
A few other of Hagee's quotes made BEFORE the one he made in March.
“Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.” - Jerusalem Countdown (revised edition, 2007, p. 114)
"A Godless theology of hate that no one dared try to stop for a thousand years produced a harvest of hate." -Hagee's 1987 book Should Christians Support Israel? (p. 4)
Sound Familiar doesn't it? Thats why his apology is absolute crap. And he has made similar comments about Katrina victims, homosexuals and others. A Tiger doesn't change its stripes, just wait until the election is over and he'll be right back to the hate speeches.