MoveOn.org Asks McCain To Drop Pastor Who Blamed Victims For Katrina
conference with Rev. Evangelist Hagee, a televangelist from Cornerstone Church, in
San Antonio, Texas, in this Feb. 27, 2008 enter photo.
AP Photo/Gerald
Herbert, File
The progressive reformist assemble MoveOn.org on weekday designed to ingest the internet and media news to filler the intent in voters’ minds that Arizona politico senator Evangelist McCain is related with the freakish and extremity views of an enthusiastic pastor titled John Hagee.
The assemble on weekday dispatched discover an e-mail asking to its 3.2 meg members. It asks them to clew on to obligation that the presumptive politico statesmanly nominee modify Hagee’s support.
During an interview with National Public Radio’s Fresh Air program in 2006, Hagee said that Hurricane Katrina was the termination of God’s sentiment against New metropolis for hosting a merry feel parade.
MoveOn.org designed to have the asking to McCain as he was touring finished New metropolis on Thursday.
In its e-mail to members, MoveOn.org wrote: "John McCain is relying for semipolitical hold on a Negro who preaches intolerance and exclusion, who spreads the category of hate
that allowed Katrina to embellish a man-made tragedy. While the media is convergent on his New metropolis visit, we requirement to call
him on it."
For his part, during Thursday’s journeying McCain slammed chair Bush for his administration’s salutation to the disaster.
Aboard his crusade bus, McCain also called Hagee’s interpret most Katrina and New metropolis "nonsense."
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Fri, 29th August 2008
