For What It is Worth: Videos of John Hagee

There has been quite a stir about the relationship between John Hagee and John McCain. Part of it stems from the fact that McCain criticized Bush’s move towards Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell in 2000, and so it makes McCain look like a hypocrite. Certainly one cannot and should not engage “guilt by association” tactics with politicians and judge them by those who endorse them on their own. However, things are different if a politician specifically seeks it out — because then, in a way, the politician is also doing an endorsement.

Through McCains relationship with Hagee, Hagee (who already had a considerable following) has been given even more prominence. Now much of what he says should not be surprising. For example, he says Obama is not the Antichrist (in case anyone wondered).

But much of what he says, as in these videos of a “fiery” speech he gave in support for “Christian Zionism,” should really give one pause. Not only that, the kind of responses he gets in these videos should scare any American. For not only do you hear Hagee being jovial at the idea of war and the kinds of deaths which would happen if we got into a war with Iran, the crowd is passionately moved to follow and agree with him on these very sentiments. No wonder Hagee is so sympathetic with “bomb Iran” McCain.

Part I

Part II (with praises to the “great one”) in the background:

Part III (of the “gift from God”)