Code Broken
The code has been broken on how Barack Obama can rid himself of the Rev Jeremiah Wright albatross. And he has John McCain to thank. Pastor John Hagee has written a letter in which he apologized for calling the Catholic Church a whore. Now all is forgiven and McCain is out from under a dark cloud and can infer that Obama is not.
This is a great vote of confidence for our American political system. After years of hate tinged rhetoric aimed at first, to generate church company (and personal) ”proift” and second, to gain crowd control (so that he could make more money in the future), Hagee can simply say he was sorry for one thing he said. The news media can now drop any reference to Hagee and focus more on Obama.
The sad part of this is that neither Hagee or Wright are relevant to the choice of our next President. George W Bush spoke often and directly to God, himself, (he reported) and look what a dismal failure Bush has been. Hagee and Pat Robinson do stand for denying gays/lesbians and women their inalienable rights and Wright does have an excellent record of community outreach to the very poor, but those are moral or ethical values, not religious based actions. Religion should play no part in this or any other election. The ethics and morality of any supporter of McCain or Obama who the candidates whole-heartedly accept should be of interest to us.
At the end of the day, it is what’s inside the two candidates that will count. Generally speaking the cost of raising campaign funds will swamp most other influences on the next President. It just seems to me that community outreach is more in keeping with the American tradition than ignoring the rights of so many of our citizens.
