"Spiritual advisor" if it means Meeks is a political ally who is also a preacher and with whom Obama has been known to bow his head in prayer with as a form of non-denominational fellowship. Sure. Thats exactly what the article says. But "spiritual advisor" if it implies some sense of obedience to Meeks's church's teachings, nope, it ain't there, and thats why i take beef with the choice of words.

Again, I also don't think that McCain believes any of the hateful "religious" things Hagee spews like Katrina was God's wrath at New Orleans for allowing a "gay pride parade". I am deeply concerned however that McCain repeatedly gets confused about telling the Shiia from Sunni but has deliberately courted the support of a preacher who has called in no uncertain terms for a preemptive strike at Iran in order to urge on the Apocalypse. Hagee believes that McCain and he are in agreement on Middle East policy and he's come to that conclusion from meeting with McCain in person and interviewing on the subject.

So on the one hand we get McCain going out of his way to make promises to a guy who explicitly views Middle East politics in terms of the Book of Revelations and on the other hand we have McCain running specifically on his foreign policy "experience" who repeatedly mixes up the religious conflict underpinning the simmering civil war in Iraq.

In case any readers at home are confused like McCain, Iran is a Shiia religious state and is funneling aide to several Shiia factions - both those associated with anti-American cleric Muqtada al Sadr and those associated with Iranian inspired Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, part of Prime Minister Mailiki's ruling Shiite political bloc. Al Queda on the other hand are Sunni extremists and view Shiias as defilers of the true Muslim faith. The chief stumbling block to a stable government in Iraq is lack of political reconciliation between Sunni and Shiia factions, though more recently fighting between Shiia factions have come to the fore as well. If you need to understand one thing about the violence in Iraq, the Sunni-Shiia conflict should be it.

Nontheless McCain repeatedly mixes up Al Queda (Sunnis) with Iran (Shiias) - not just when Lieberman bails him out here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EetobKXQsr8

But then flubs it again when questioning Petraeus in the Senate here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdNKQ...eature=related

And then repeats the same mix-up again in a radio interview here.
And while we are talking about McCain and why he doesn't seem have half the foreign policy "expertise" he claims to, lets listen again to some of McCain's musical stylings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg

Yep, thats the guy I trust to be sane and level headed as the leader of the Free World.

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Barack Obama on security, Iraq and Afghanistan. We need a Commander in Chief who knows the differences between Shii'a and Sunni.