election 2008 from the eyes of an ebony mom

Statements below are from 2 prominent ministers supporting John McCain

John Hagee: “”All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are– were recipients of the judgment of God for that.” - (Google news count for search ‘”john mccain’ ‘john hagee’”: 495)

• Rod Parsley on Islam: “I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Did I miss it or have we seen the tapes of these ministers making the aformentioned statements. I’m sure if the press looked a little harder they would probably find some more radical musings from these two pillars of society. No one seems to be approaching this with the same zeal as the Jeremiah Wright debacle. In the Wright case on Good Morning America they said they purchased the tapes for the purpose of doing the story. I know Hagee and Parsley also have extensive tape libraries, but nobody is looking. I am not saying McCain was a member of either of these two congregations, but these are radical statements that are not shared thoughts of the mainstream. I think it would at least warrant some repudiation, but instead they have been embraced as a ticket to the evangelical vote.