John McCain has once again stepped in the whole Hagee mess and John Nichols, at the Nation, gets most of what's significant about the McCain-Hagee political tie - Barack Obama's pastor has said controversial things but McCain himself indicated he considered religious leaders such as Hagee to be hate-mongers long prior to when McCain pursued Hagee like a dog in heat (detailed in this video of mine, 1st in a series).

 

On January 24, 2007 Christians United For Israel founder, Pastor John Hagee (CUFI), participated in a conference call with Jewish-American bloggers. The intent of the call was to familiarize the bloggers with CUFI and to assure them that CUFI's motives were benign - that he didn't cynically support Israel to provoke Armaggeddon and the Rapture, where Christian souls would be saved but Jewish souls "left behind."

The following video showcases evidence demonstrating Hagee's motives were far from benign.

During the conversation, one blogger asked Hagee for some help on what to tell Jewish friends of hers who questioned the motives of Hagee and CUFI. Responding to that blogger, Hagee stated, "I do not support Israel because of any eschatological concept or prophetic concept. I support them because that I have a Bible mandate to do so beginning in the Book of Genesis and neverending."