Day Nine: No Straight Talk from McCain on Parsley’s Call for Destroying Islam

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Still nothing.

It’s been over a week since this site broke the news that John McCain campaigned with (and accepted the endorsement of) a televangelist who has called for eradicating Islam, and McCain has not publicly renounced, rejected, denounced or disavowed the Reverend Rod Parsley, who is an important player in Ohio politics. McCain’s campaign did tell Fox News that McCain does not agree with all of Parsley’s views. But that’s not much of a response to Parsley’s call for a holy war to destroy the “false religion” of Islam. One could argue that Jeremiah Wright never went that far—and look what Barack Obama had to go through (justifiably).

McCain’s campaign press office refuses to respond to a request for comment on this. He is trying to duck and cover. Not much courage there.

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