Put this one down in the annals of the strange shift on religion in the 2008 election: while religious right activists argue over whether John McCain did or did not rebuff overtures to meet with evangelical icon the Rev. Billy Graham and his son Franklin, Barack Obama was meeting in Chicago with evangelical leaders, where […]
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Sarah Posner’s coverage of religion and politics has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Week, and many others.
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The FundamentaList (No. 37)
McCain’s problems with evangelicals are exaggerated but real, polls show Obama could win the votes of some moderate evangelicals, and a prominent evangelical defends Hagee.
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OBAMA BACKS AWAY FROM UNDIVIDED JERUSALEM PLEDGE AT AIPAC.
After pledging at the AIPAC conference this week that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel, a poorly executed bit of catering to the crowd, Barack Obama was forced to back up, kinda, sorta restoring his position to well, I think the parties to negotiations should decide this question (which is, officially at least, […]
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BIG SUPPORT FOR HAGEE AT AIPAC?
At Powerline, Joel Mowbray (author of “the bum rap against John Hagee”) reports that AIPAC delegates in Washington this week were loving Hagee in absentia. Mowbray writes that at the break-out session featuring Christians United for Israel’s Executive Director David Brog (which, like other political organizing sessions was officially closed to the press), Hagee got […]
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OBAMA TO AIPAC: I’M NOT THE GUY IN THOSE E-MAILS YOU’VE BEEN GETTING.
Barack Obama was extremely well-received at the AIPAC Policy Conference this morning, with a delegate from Illinois introducing him as “the presumptive Democratic nominee” to enthusiastic applause. After saluting Hillary Clinton with high praise like “extraordinary leader in the Democratic Party” and “great candidate,” he (only half) joked that the audience shouldn’t pay any attention […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 36)
This Week in the Religious Right: McCain gets a warm reception from AIPAC and Ralph Reed, evangelicals may not mind McCain’s rejection of Hagee, and Hagee’s Jewish friends don’t mind his controversial comments.
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LIEBERMAN TO SPEAK AT CUFI SUMMIT.
The Associated Press is reporting that Joe Lieberman (I-Hagee BFF) will speak at John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel Summit in July. According to the AP, Lieberman “said Wednesday while Hagee’s comments were unacceptable and hurtful, he will judge him on his life work fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews.” Fighting anti-Semitism […]
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EVANGELICAL LEADER: MCCAIN’S MOVE WILL HAMPER HIM, NOT HAGEE.
I just got off the phone with Bishop Harry Jackson, a pastor and leading conservative evangelical political figure who is friends with both John Hagee and Rod Parsley and supports Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Jackson says that McCain shot himself in the foot with conservative evangelicals by first seeking out Hagee and Parsley’s endorsements […]
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MCCAIN REJECTS HAGEE AND PARSLEY, BUT WILL THE GOP?
Now that John McCain has made the only conceivable move he could in renouncing, rejecting, and otherwise repudiating the endorsements of John Hagee and Rod Parsley, the question remains: is Hagee suddenly toxic to all the other Republicans (and Democrats) who have cozied up to him for so many years? As Paul points out, McCain […]
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MCCAIN AND HAGEE BREAK UP.
John McCain just renounced John Hagee’s endorsement, and moments later Hagee announced that he is withdrawing his endorsement of McCain. Early in the day, in light of newly discovered audiotape of John Hagee preaching that God unleashed Hitler so that the Jews would establish the state of Israel in fulfillment of biblical prophecy, J Street […]
