God's Will?

There's nothing that the republican crowd wants more than keeping people focused on Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright. And who can blame them? The dude said some really offensive things that sound even worse when taken out of context. And when somebody close to a candidate does something that might be considered offensive, it's like a dream come true to the opposition. I'm sure when Obama gets the highly coveted Flavor Flav endorsement, we'll be hearing that crowd spewing out lyrics from Fear of a Black Planet. Yet in the meantime, John McCain has been sucking up to the lunatic fringe of the religious right, actively seeking their endorsements since he doesn't have the kind of fundy cred that Mike Huckabee has. As far as I know, he actually believes in the theory of evolution, and science that kind of kooky liberal nonsense will certainly not fly with that crowd. The kinds of crazy shit these people spew on a daily basis makes Wright look like Ward freakin' Cleaver, yet the press barely picks up on it and the right keep on making excuses how their wackos are more acceptable than our wackos. But the latest thing to come out of John Hagee's mouth will hopefully be the last nail on the coffin of this ridiculous guilt by association game. Because it's one thing to blame natural disasters on the gays, but it's another to say that Hitler was fulfilling God's will by exterminating millions of Jews. "Oh no he didn't," you shout. But oh yes he sure did. Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: "'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that." He goes on: "Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust. "Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says—Jeremiah writing—'They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,' meaning there's no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don't let your heart be offended. I didn't write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel." I'm sure it will give great comfort to people whose relatives died in those gas chambers that it was all just part of the plan to bring about an end of the world scenario where they get to go directly to hell without passing Go and collecting $200. Hagee is a Christian Zionist. He supports Israel not so much because he has any great kindness for the folks who he blames for killing Jesus, but because in order for the apocalypse to happen, the Jews need to control the holy land. And anything to hurry that scenario along, whether it be shooting at rock throwing kids, collective punishment of families, or the attempted fucking genocide of a whole race of people is all part of this wackjob's God's great plan to pick up him and his followers in a giant cross shaped UFO and bring them to the great big Stryper concert in the sky. So, let's refresh... On one hand you've got a pastor who sounds like a Public Enemy album. On the other, you've got a guy saying that the Holocaust was all part of God's great plan to end the world so only the people who believe in one particular interpretation of an ancient book of mythology get to have themselves a private party while laughing and saying "I told you so" at all the people who thought they were just a bunch of nutjobs. I challenge anyone to try making excuses for John McCain not publicly bitchslapping this raving loon and telling him not to come within a hundred feet of his campaign. Or better yet, you guys shut up about Wright and we'll shut up about this guy and perhaps we can all focus on the issues that actually effect our lives instead. UPDATE: Hagee kicked to the curb!