The Wright/Hagee false equivalence

Wright has some pretty silly theories. Many people who look around and see poverty and whatnot do. They're wrong, but they are not, as far as anyone can tell, harmful. They aren't prejudiced, they don't encourage violence, they're just incorrect. Plenty of people believe incorrect things.

And it's worth noting that while those theories appear specifically wrong, in general they are not unbelievable. The US government didn't give black people AIDS, but it did give them other diseases in a few notable instances. It doesn't sell black people drugs now, but please google 'Kerry Committee report'.

And people who think the drug war and drugs are a deliberate racist attack on minorities are not lunatics. They're wrong, it's not deliberate, but there is a hell of a lot of racism from top to bottom, and it has destroyed a huge amount of inner cities and black communities, so if someone thinks it's a conspiracy, I'll cut them a little slack. I won't vote for them, but we're not talking about Obama here.

As long as Obama doesn't believe these 'facts', I'm failing to see how they can possibly affect anything. Someone can be a useful spiritual mentor while believe a few incorrect historical facts, just like a Hindu or atheist, who I think most of us here think are incorrect about a few things, can be a useful electrical engineering mentor.

Whereas McCain, while not believing Hagee's nonsense, is a member of a party that has already shown they can't stop putting Israel's 'interests' ahead of us. (Although in actuality it is not in Israel's best interested to be involved in a Middle-East-spanning apocalyptic war, which Israel has started to realize as they continue to deal with these loonytoons.)

I don't think it means anything, McCain will ditch Hagee right after the election (Either way it goes.), but it does serve to remind people just how the neocons are using the apocalyptic evangelicals in their little game of Risk.

Back to Wright: Additionally, he's not that happy with the US. Which, and I seem to have to remind Republicans of this, is not a bad thing: Being unhappy with the US simply results in trying to change it. Being unhappy with the existing system has produced all political change that has ever happened.

I think the thing we need to consider in this comparison between these two is their sphere of influence where it counts the most, Washington DC.

Let's say Obama is elected. He attempts to make Wright's wrongness a force to be reckoned with in DC. Do you think for a minute his position will carry the water Hagee's does today? Do you think for a minute that Wright would be given the red carpet treatment Hagee enjoys in the halls of Congress?

I think Rod is trying to compare butts without lifting skirts.