Earlier in the week, an adviser to the campaign was touting the visit to high-profile Catholic Republicans. These gatherings are important for reasons of substance and symbol. McCain will receive invites to all these breakfasts; at which ones will he choose to appear?
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What his friend Hagee in attendance too? 
He just dropped in to tell them the whore of Babylon is a cunt.
Good comments about McCain and his association with Hagee. Ironic that McCain at once courts a pastor who has said some very negative things about Catholics and the Catholic vote at the same time. But we all know that only black people have to answer for each and every association they've ever had in life; white people do not. So if a white person is buddy buddy with a pastor who has said bad things about Catholics...well, hey that's OK...we all know he means well...
I'm not sure what would be worse - whether you all actually believe the propaganda you've been spoon-fed (McCain's divorce, his "relationship" with Hagee, etc.), or whether you simply take pleasure in spreading it, believe it or not. Either way, please keep up your great work winning new people over to your wonderfully positive, post-partisan, and unifying new politics!
CK MacLeod: McCain's divorce, and his seeking out of John Hagee's endorsement (and Hagee's view of the Catholic church as the "great whore") are not propaganda, they are indisputable facts. My point is that the rationale given by Stephanopolous for his flag pin and Ayers questions were that they go to the candidate's handling of controversy. I am curious to see whether he applies that same rationale to John McCain, as well.
What his friend Hagee in attendance too? I think Hagee he was McCain's date. The only question is who in that relationship is the bitch?
What's so typically propagandistic about your and other presentations of the Hagee and divorce "facts" is the way people such as yourself seize upon a kernel of truth and twist it into a scurrilous lie. Of course, Hagee endorsed McCain - what's absurd is the idea that the two were "buddy buddy," or for that matter that their relationship extended or extends beyond a single political endorsement of McCain by Hagee, not the other way around. Likewise, the depiction of McCain's divorce from his wife: A multi-year estrangement leading to an amicable and generous settlement turned into some cartoonishly vile abandonment of a "disfigured" woman by the side of the road. The first Mrs. McCain went on to have a successful career in and out of Republican Party politics, including a stint as Nancy Reagan's personal secretary. Obama fans and Democrats should really not want to open up the '70s for scrutiny and embellishment - unless you want to force the electorate to choose between your young Communist druggie and the Republicans' war hero. Beyond that, it's a symptom of a degraded or stunted mind to think that you can judge from this distance what really went on between McCain and his wife 30 years ago, and that it could or should matter to us today. I'm now waiting for the South Carolina slanders or Keating 5 exaggerations to get their airing. I wouldn't be surprised to see them vomited up on this thread before I hit the "post" button.
CK MacLeod. First of all, the biggest complaints about the SC slanders came from Democrats who were appalled by the Rovian tactics and furios for the way Bush just shrugged it off as politics. Secondly, the Keating 5 should be looked at, particularly if you think there are a bunch of exaggerations out there, just so that it doesn't hurt McCain. The McCain campaign went to Hagee to get his endorsement, not the other way around. And I don't know of anybody who thinks they are buddy-buddy.
I don't know if it's a glitch, but all post above this no longer allow comments. Marc,
Uhm......why bring up McCain's first marriage? Do you know how many soldiers returned home from Vietnam and had peronal lives that fell apart (a lot of the POW's returned home to broken homes). How could you compare his marriage to Obama's issues? Marc, only a snob would try to compare the two, but of course, most of the miliary is made up of small town volunteers, you would not understand.
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Will George Stephanopolous ask John McCain whether John Hagee loves Catholics as much as he does? Or why John McCain left his first wife, who was badly injured in an accident, and married Cindy McCain a month later? After all, as Stephanopolous himself has said, "People also take into account...how candidates handle controversy. That's what campaigns are about, as well."
Posted by south side | April 18, 2008 8:57 AM