Lieberman strode to the stage, then compared Hagee to Moses

During a banquet at CUFI's 2007 convention, I watched with astonishment as Lieberman strode to the stage, then compared Hagee to Moses .........."I want to take to opportunity to describe Pastor Hagee in the terms the Torah used to describe Moses," Lieberman declared. "He is an Ish Elohim. A man of God. And those words really do fit him. And I have something else," the senator continued. "Like Moses, he's become the leader of a mighty multitude. Even greater than the multitude that Moses led from Egypt to the Promised Land."

Was Lieberman aware at the time of Hagee's statements about Jews and the Holocaust? I don't know. But with McCain's tacit acknowledgment of Hagee's anti-Semitism, Lieberman must now decide: is Hagee a man of God, or just a mamzer?

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Update: A friend just sent me Lieberman's defense of Hagee during a 5/13/08 Fox News segment:

SEN. LIEBERMAN: Well, look, I think that the DNC is obviously doing this because they set Pastor Hagee as some kind of response to Reverend Wright for Senator Obama. But I don't think that's fair in the basic way that everybody's already said which is that John McCain never went to Pastor Hagee's church. He accepted his endorsement. He represents a lot of people in this country, particularly Christians who care about the state of Israel. He founded a group called Christians United for Israel.

And statements that were brought out that he had made about the Catholic Church were a total surprise to me. I know to Senator McCain they were obviously reprehensible. And I give Pastor Hagee a lot of credit for just plain apologizing. And I must say there's a difference because Reverend Wright never did apologize. He just restated the objectionable and reprehensible things he had said.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/my-interview-with-pastor_b_103177.html

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Use this to sink Lieberman and McCain.

denial ? :)

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You know, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges Of course Moe has more brains than Hagee, but it would be an interesting comparison.

At the time he did this in the 1930's it was not accepted practice to ridicule Nazi's and took considerable courage. Moses Horowitz (Howard) was also Jewish.

I've seen the movie they made which was banned for a time, ridiculing the Nazis. Before WWII, there was a sizable pro-German faction in the US, led by folks like Henry Ford, who kept an autographed photo of Hitler on his desk, and Charles Lindberg. Interesting, isn't it, that the real Nazi appeasers in this country were all conservative Republicans?

My Grandfather was a shirt tail relative of Lindbergh and knew him personally. There were German sympathizers throughout the family on the side my Grandfather was related to Lindbergh. During the war my Uncle was actually ferried in a plane to England by Lindbergh who recognized the family name. By that time he must have had a change of heart.

Later during the war some cousins (on that side of the family) actually made a derogatory comment about my Uncle to my Grandfather bombing relatives in Germany, he never spoke to them again and I was never allowed to associate with them growing up in the 1950's. He referred to this branch of the family as German Nazi trash. To this day they are all Republicans, I learned to associate Republicans as Nazi trash. As for Lindbergh my Grandfather never had a problem with him, we have a picture of Lindbergh in his Curtis Jenny from his mail route days. My Grandfather used to drive Lindbergh to town from the field he would land on stopovers. By the late 1930's my Grandfather was a rabid Democrat and never wavered. Hunger does that to you, Lindbergh did not experience the Depression he could afford to sympathize with Republicans and Nazi scum.

So Joe Vichy Lieberman can be removed from the party.

Other than his nice suits and the fact that he gets to be on the tee-vee from time to time, it's getting harder and harder to tell Ol' Joe from the guy at the park who mutters about the Trilateral Commission while dispensing stale bread to the pigeons and picking his nose . . . .

on their ties to religious nuts like Hagee. People like Hagee are part of the explotiation and propaganda necessary to keep the war machine rolling. Lieberman and McCain know perfectly well what Hagee is and supported him willingly.

because they didn't go sooner