John Hagee and John McCain

Frank Rich of the New York Times has written a great piece about the hypocrisy of the Rev. Wright situation. He implies, correctly, that had Wright (been white) and said equally outrageous things that didn't play on white fear of black people it would have gotten little notice. Take the case in point of the a preacher that is a far greater and whiter lunatic than Wright.

John Hagee, (seen right) who would not have ever existed had the right people always been in charge, was actively sought out by McCain for an endorsement. Rich explains:

BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John Hagee Roman Church Hitler,” and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.

What you’ll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee, lecturing in front of an enormous diorama. Wielding a pointer, he pokes at the image of a woman with Pamela Anderson-sized breasts, her hand raising a golden chalice. The woman is “the Great Whore,” Mr. Hagee explains, and she is drinking “the blood of the Jewish people.” That’s because the Great Whore represents “the Roman Church,” which, in his view, has thirsted for Jewish blood throughout history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust.

Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives’ favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race...

Mr. McCain says he does not endorse any of Mr. Hagee’s calumnies, any more than Barack Obama endorses Mr. Wright’s. But those who try to give Mr. McCain a pass for his embrace of a problematic preacher have a thin case. It boils down to this: Mr. McCain was not a parishioner for 20 years at Mr. Hagee’s church.

That defense implies, incorrectly, that Mr. McCain was a passive recipient of this bigot’s endorsement. In fact, by his own account, Mr. McCain sought out Mr. Hagee, who is perhaps best known for trying to drum up a pre-emptive “holy war” with Iran. (This preacher’s rantings may tell us more about Mr. McCain’s policy views than Mr. Wright’s tell us about Mr. Obama’s.) Even after Mr. Hagee’s Catholic bashing bubbled up in the mainstream media, Mr. McCain still did not reject and denounce him, as Mr. Obama did an unsolicited endorser, Louis Farrakhan, at the urging of Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton. Mr. McCain instead told George Stephanopoulos two Sundays ago that while he condemns any “anti-anything” remarks by Mr. Hagee, he is still “glad to have his endorsement.

In addition to the above mentioned dysfunctions, I did a search and found out that he also claims that Jews did not reject Jesus as the Messiah, which means that according to him Jews are actually Christians.

If you are not at least as disturbed by the following video as you are by anything Rev. Wright has said, you are undoubtedly a close minded and racist xenophobe that probably listens to Sean Hannity more than you read and hates everything the Beatles did after Rubber Soul:



Amongst other things, the first one dollar bill was not produced under Washington, it was produced under Lincoln, who fought a war against this bastard's ancestors.

MSNBC Airs 1 Hour Special Report on Obama and Rev. Wright

Kent Brockman: In other news, MSNBC no longer stands for Microsoft-National Broadcasting Company. The initials have now been adjusted to represent Ms. No Black Candidate...

Yes, the above mentioned network has decided to air an atrocious one hour segment on this most tired of topics. Another line has been crossed. If you are pissed about this level of attention, please be proactive and let them know: letters@msnbc.com; verdict@msn.msnbc.com

Outside of K.O., they seem to be obsessed with this story in an almost unhealthy way. This is NOT a story, it is a distraction, a drama, and a intellectual drain. I would rather watch someone on QVC test out a Dustbuster.

In other news, Obama is up 53/47 with 79% reporting in Guam. The boob on CNN, while reporting this information just now (12:14 PST), actually just said that Obama has a home field advantage for having grown up in Hawaii. Then, in an effort to correct himself, he said, well at least a home ocean advantage as the two islands are not that far apart as the crow flies. For the record, the crow flies 3,805 miles between Honolulu, Hawaii and Hagatna, Guam. Just to offer some perspective, the same crow flies only 2,713 miles between Seattle, Washington and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Oil: What is the Magic Number?

I was having a discussion with a student this morning and we were trying to figure out what would have to happen for Americans to get organized to deal with these gas prices. I paid 3.95 for the cheap stuff in San Diego this morning. Actually, I paid 3.96 when rounding up the nine-tenths of a percent that we pay. That in of itself is amazing. Many of us have already been conditioned to round down this number, but I digress...




Shell and B & P are reporting first quarter earnings of 17 billion USD combined. Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister (left) and the president of OPEC is warning that crude oil could end up costing over 200 USD a barrel. That would likely mean we are paying over 8 dollars a gallon.
This posses a variety of scenarios, problems and concerns. The first question we must ask is what will it take for us to act? 5 dollars a gallon? 7 dollars a gallon? 8??? What is our price? What is gas going to have to cost before we get organized and do something about it? I am starting to think we are trapped in a game of the Sims whereby the player got up to go to the potty room and forgot about the game. But again, I digress...

McCain and Clinton want to cut a 5 cent gas tax (saving the average American 50 cents to a dollar per week). This is Obama's response:

Bush is blaming the problem on taxes and not his idiotic policies that have expanded our debt thus devaluing the currency we are using to buy crude oil. Not to mention the illegal and boneheaded war in Iraq which lead to a decrease in oil output and regional stability thus pushing prices higher. Not to mention whoring out our manufacturing base to China which is now getting rich and buying gas as it advances toward development and a culture of waste and leisure.

So what are we going to do? Bitch? Send out emails? A quick Google search of "solutions to the gas problem" produces over 5 million returns. I liked the idea that argued we should all boycott Exxon-Mobil until they lower prices. Then when they do, move on to Shell, then Citgo, ect. That might work, and the Internet is a great tool and resource for us to organize. There are sites like http://www.carpoolconnect.com/ that are great for starters. But what is that going to do for food prices? Truckers are paying through the arse to get your local grocer the food they sell you. A carpool is not going to help us there.

Which leads me to another problem in the form of biofuels. Turning food into fuel is a great idea in a society that has a problem with obesity. We have such an abundance of food that it makes sense that we should drive using it. Plus, its renewable! But what about the other parts of the world that rely on these foods to subsist? This is a real crisis. And what happens to the economies of the oil producing countries once we (humans, not just Americans) stop using oil? More instability I suppose. What about the orangutans?!? We abandon them are our own peril.

But hey, enough of the chit chat, did you hear what Reverend Wright said???

The View on Obama

OK, so you don’t like the show the View. I understand, it can be annoying; you think it’s a show just for women, and you are not a woman; you work during the day, so you have not gotten to watch it; la la la la la the list goes on and on. Personally, I am a man and I enjoy the View in doses. I find the show to be quite revealing in regards to the way the general public views a lot of important social topics. The factor that adds so much is that they have five women of varying intelligences talking about the issues. Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg are really intelligent people who think before they speak. Joy and Sheri are of run of the mill intelligence and think about fifty percent of the time before they speak. Last, dim-witted Elisabeth does not have the brain power of dirt and has the debilitating disease “diarrhea of the mouth”. Again, they do an outstanding job shedding light in regards to the way different people think, which is reflective of our wonderfully diverse society as a whole. In the following video, dumb-ass Elisabeth makes an absolutely amazing metaphor concerning Barack Obama. You have got to watch this, but you have got to hang on until the end of the clip to see it. Trust me, it’s worth it.

The Media is Terrible

I know this is nothing new, but this clip really pisses me off:


IT WAS A QUOTE!!!!

Morning Memo 2.0

Good morning.

- The U.S. Dollar is sinking to all time lows against currencies around the globe. This is getting bad, and ripple effects are appearing throughout the world. The Fed has decided to increase liquidity, which will thus, I presume, further weaken the Dollar. At least Israel is stepping in to help. Buy an umbrella folks! It may not rain today, but you will want to have something you own all by yourself when the other shoe drops. And umbrellas are still pretty cheap.

- This is another story on China and the Olympics to supplement my earlier post about Tibet. Boycott this summer's Olympics! Sign this too...

- Below you will find a great film about corporations. It is called The Corporation. It is long but good (that's what she said ;):


- Here is a bit more about Reverend Wright. I agree with Andrew Sullivan's sentiments at the end of this article. I too think that Sen. Obama must address this before it becomes a Swift Boat scenario. These sort of stories are like cancer; they can be treated, but only when done early and with surgical precision. Stories like this and feeble responses are not going to do the trick. The junior senator from Illinois is going to have to spend a good chunk of that 55 million he raised in February to deal with this. Otherwise, his delegate lead will suddenly appear less insurmountable in Denver this summer.

UPDATE: It appears that Obama is reading the Illiterate Electorate, as he posted a response at the Huffington Post to these remarks, only an hour after I suggested he act.

From the New York Times:

This is a good look at Obama's controversial preacher:

The Wright Controversy

By Jodi Kantor

The Democratic candidates spent much of the week trying to tamp down controversy provoked by their supporters. Earlier in the week, it was Geraldine Ferraro, whose racially charged remarks were denounced Wednesday night by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton after Mrs. Ferraro announced she was resigning from her honorary position on Mrs. Clinton’s campaign finance committee.

On Thursday the attention shifted to the camp of Senator Barack Obama, after a report was shown on “Good Morning America” on ABC, with clips of sermons by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

Reverend Wright has been Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor, and bloggers and television commentators spent the day picking over his stinging social and political critiques in the pulpit.

It was not the first time that questions have been raised about Reverend Wright and his criticisms of the United States government (he has referred to it as the “U.S. of KKK A.,” for instance).(Click here for more)

I wonder where this is going to go? My guess is that fat, crack whore fucking, truth hating scum surfer Mark Penn will be all over this so his girl's boy McCane can get elected.