May 9, 2008 at 8:38 am · Filed under Barack Obama, Black America, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Obama, Pulpit Bullies, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rod Parsley, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, Watch Senator John McCain's Pulpit Bullies ·Tagged Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Pulpit Bullies, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rod Parsley, Senator Barack Obama, Watch Senator John McCain
Does Senator John McCain Have Friends that are Pulpit Bullies? Why isn’t Senator McCain being taken to task for his associations with Rod Parsley, John Hagee, and the late Jerry Falwell? We have had Jeremiah Wright overkill, why not take Senator McCain to task for his preacher friends?
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musesofamom said,
May 9, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
The argument is McCain was not a member of the church. Whereas Barack Obama was a member of Trinity for twenty years, but McCain courted Hagee& Parsley to get the endorsement. McCain is not stupid. He knew the kind of hate-filled venom that both Hagee and Parsley spew, but they are his ticket to the white evangenlical vote. Read my blog on the ministers: http://www.ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com.
Sally Beecher said,
May 21, 2008 @ 12:29 am
Even worse than the ones you mentioned is Rev. Moon, the darling of the conservative Washington. - The following is something I just found: Mysterious Republican Money
By Robert Parry
September 7, 2004
If House Speaker Dennis Hastert were really concerned about drug profits being laundered into the U.S. political process, he would not be sliming billionaire financier George Soros with that suspicion. Hastert would be looking at a principal conservative funder: South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon.
While Hastert was unable to cite a shred of evidence that the liberal Soros is funneling illicit money, there is a substantial body of evidence that Moon has long commanded a criminal enterprise with close ties to Asian and South American drug lords. The evidence includes first-hand accounts of money laundering disclosed by Moon confidantes and even family members. Besides those more recent accounts, Moon was convicted of tax fraud based on evidence developed in the late 1970s about his money-laundering activities.
Since serving his tax-evasion sentence in the early 1980s, however, Moon appears to have bought himself protection by spreading hundreds of millions of dollars around conservative causes and through generous speaking fee payments to Republican leaders, including former President George H.W. Bush.
Moon himself has boasted that he spent $1 billion on the right-wing Washington Times in its first decade alone. The newspaper, which started in 1982, continues to lose Moon an estimated $50 million a year but remains a valuable propaganda organ for the Republican Party.
How Moon has managed to cover the vast losses of his media empire and pay for lavish conservative conferences has been one of the most enduring mysteries of Washington, but curiously one of the least investigated - at least since the Reagan-Bush era.