Despite the McCain campaign's push to smear Barack Obama for his 'associations' with William Ayers there's been a noticeable ban on criticisms from his campaign of Rev.Wright. Part of that reluctance to highlight Obama's pastor certainly has to do with their campaign's own problem with demagogic spiritual leaders.
McCain reversed his criticisms in his 2000 run for president of Falwell and Robertson as 'agents of intolerance', just in time to run for the office again. McCain refused to renounce the support he solicited in this campaign from Rev. John Hagee, a demagogue who has called the Catholic church 'The Great Whore' -- even after Hagee said Katrina struck New Orleans because of a gay rally there.
I think most of their reluctance to bring up Wright, though, has to do with Sarah Palin's church's 'witch hunter' who she
credited for praying her into the governorship and has been
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/100149/shocking_footage_of_palin_praying_with_%27witch_hunter%27/">videotaped praying directly behind Palin, as she bowed her head, for Jesus to eradicate witchcraft and elevate her political career.
"In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every form of witchcraft is what you rebuke. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, father make away now," her Pastor Muthee says in the video.
"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Pastor Muthee continued. "Make her way, my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. Use her to turn this nation the other way around."
It's no accident, I think, that McCain has resorted to a witch-hunting campaign against Barack Obama. Palin has evidently persuaded McCain that the source of his problems isn't the lying, hypocritical campaign he's been running. Palin must have sold McCain on the Pastor Muthee doctrine.
Pastor Muthee ran a woman out of town after he convinced residents that the source and cause of the crime and poverty rampant in their community was a woman he picked out at random to scapegoat. “We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place,” Pastor Muthee said.
from a 1999 Christian Science Monitor article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/1999/0923/p15s1.html"According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned . . . Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon."
McCain and Palin have decided that the problems they're promising to take responsibility for are beyond their earthly power to solve. So, they're taking their supporters on an old-fashioned witchhunt, stirring up 'suspicions' about their rival's character; casting aspersion on his 'associations'; and casting him as the pernicious source of all of that ails the nation. Their witchhunt is oblivious to their own messianic zeal as they stir the rabble to reject the infidels.
All that's left for them is the stoning.
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