Friday, May 23, 2008

Hurt Feelings in the Wake of McCain's Preacher Massacre

As Sarah Posner points out, McCain's active recruitment of Hagee and Parsley makes rejecting them now that much more odious - that is, from the perspective of the Christian ultra-right. (Yesterday I'd proposed that his active recruitment of Hagee made McCain's preacher problem more odious as a general matter of political ethics than Wright/Obama. Paul Waldman tacks a slightly different course on this theme.)