Will He Walk His Talk?

John Hagee is to John McCain as Jeremiah Wright is to Barack Obama. That's the answer to the new "Miller Analogies Test" question. To expand on this point a bit further -- Hagee is this no-neck, ignoramus preacher who somehow wound up leading a "megachurch" -- defined as a church where you have to catch a shuttle bus from the parking lot to the main church building, which is on a "campus". Among Hagee's many brain farts is the notion that the Inquisition and the Crusades were instituted in order to persecute Jews. Another is that Hitler was a "good Catholic". It's just the standard set of KKK drivel that has been floating around since Martin Luther's day, but has been given a certain raw-boned, American-style cachet by the Evangelicals and/or Fundamentalists. But that's not the point. Hagee supports McCain because McCain promises to keep the war in Iraq going forever, and the reason that's good is that -- as every good Evangelical knows -- the war was initiated for the sole purpose of getting Iraq out of Israel's face, and the only way to _keep_ it out of Israel's face is to keep occupying the place indefinitely. This is all crystal-clear, and quite explicitly discussed, in Evangelical circles, but for some reason the MSM won't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Maybe they're afraid that the rest of the American electorate, i.e. non-Evangelicals, won't take too kindly to that notion of why we're in Iraq and why we have to stay there at all costs. Well, one can hardly blame them, because the whole thing is based on a highly suspect reading of the Book of Revelation -- but that reading has energized the Evangelical community and has, in turn, had a decisive impact on the Bush administration, which means it will also have a decisive impact on a McCain administration. All of which goes to show that this ballyhooed "wall of separation between church and state" is the titanic myth of our time. Our foreign policy is being dictated by a bunch of lowbrow, knuckle-dragging Bible thumpers, and that's all there is to it. Now, of course it would hardly be fair to claim that just becuase McCain has the endorsement of Hagee, that he agrees with all his views... but wait! That's the assumption that everyone is making about Obama vs. Wright, isn't it? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, right? Good thing Hagee came along at the right time to level the playing field a bit -- gosh, for a while there I was afraid that McCain might not have a "preacher issue". One thing for sure -- Hillary won't ever have one. Maybe we should give her a second look...