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Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview
Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God. Her speech in June provides as much insight into her ...

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Taylor Marsh:  Palin on Iraq: ' '... our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God...'

INSTAPUTZ:  Palin's nutjob pastor thinks 50 million Americans are going to hell.

TPM Election Central:  Palin Church Speech Shows Intertwining Of Politics And Religion

The Latest on Air America:  Palin- Iraq is God's plan, plus he can get us that $30b gasline money

Think Progress:  Palin: Iraq is a task ‘from God.’

Political Animal:  Palin's pastors

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Sarah Palin's church: Vote for Kerry in 2004 and you might not go to heaven

The Swamp:  Palin's past pastor: Bush-foes Hell-bound

Stop The ACLU:  Latest Palin Controversy: She Prayed that God Would Guide National Leaders!!!

Ben Smith's Blog:  Remainders: Northern exposure

Brilliant at Breakfast:  With the Palin selection, Camp Grandpa has also lost Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue

democracyarsenal.org:  Palin Foreign Policy

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines:  More Nuggets from the Palin Gold Mine

Hot Air » Top Picks:  GOP convention, night two: Thompson and Lieberman

Rhymes With Right:  What The Left Finds Offensive About Palin

Jonathan Martin's Blog:  Remainders: "Transpartisan"

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:  MSNBC Attempting to Make Palin McCain's Rev. Wright?

The Mahablog:  What Did I Miss?

The Poor Man Institute:  Impossible dilemmas

BlueNC - The people's think tank:  I post, you guess

Daimnation!:  Palin's church

Political Punch:  Website with Speeches and Sermons from Palin's Former Church Shuts Down as Religious Views of Candidate Face Scrutiny

The Reaction:  Thy will be done

News Hounds:  “Grapevine” Shines Spotlight On Jeremiah Wright While Palin’s Pastors Are Invisible

Chicago Boyz:  Maybe They Should Go To Church Once For the Experience

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Palin on Iraq: ' '... our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God...'
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH Finally, Campbell Brown gets an answer to her question. Complete with video: ...

Palin's nutjob pastor thinks 50 million Americans are going to hell.
INSTAPUTZ — Kalnins is pastor of the church Palin grew up in. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war "contending for your faith;" and said that Jesus "operated from that position of war mode." Does Sarah Palin agree with this? She should be asked, over and over. Every sermon should be subjected to the most careful scrutiny and analysis. She ...

Palin Church Speech Shows Intertwining Of Politics And Religion
TPM Election Central — ... The Huffington Post has unearthed a video of Palin speaking to her former church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, a few months ago. Palin shows the degree to which her politics has been shaped by religion -- and also how it's worked the other way around, too: ...

Palin- Iraq is God's plan, plus he can get us that $30b gasline money
The Latest on Air America — ... Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. ...

Palin: Iraq is a task ‘from God.’
Think Progress — ... Huffington Post reports that on June 8, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) addressed the graduating class of commission students at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. During that address, Palin portrayed the Iraq was as a quest decreed by God, and said that U.S. soldiers were carrying out “God’s plan”: ...

Palin's pastors
Political Animal — PALIN'S PASTORS.... Barack Obama's connection to the former pastor of his former church has been, fairly or unfairly, one of the more scrutinized aspects of the presidential campaign. But if the political world considers Jeremiah Wright a legitimate issue, then it's inevitable, I suppose, that Sarah Palin's pastors get a closer look. Nico Pitney and Sam Stein have the story of Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church that Palin attended for years. A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative ...

Sarah Palin's church: Vote for Kerry in 2004 and you might not go to heaven
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — For 25 years Sarah Palin attended a Pentecostal church. Here are some of the things the church preached: Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war "contending for your faith;" Wonder how they fell about Catholics. ...

Palin's past pastor: Bush-foes Hell-bound
The Swamp — ... And, in a Palin videotape that the HuffPost is showcasing, Palin, who had been mayor of Wasilla when the pastor first met her and returned as governor of Alaska to address the church in June, calls the war in Iraq "a task that is from God'' and asks congregants to pray for a new oil pipeline - "I think God's will has to be done.'' ...

Latest Palin Controversy: She Prayed that God Would Guide National Leaders!!!
Stop The ACLU — Here is the latest nonsense in the political witch hunt on Sarah Palin! She actually said the following contoversial statement to a Pentacostal Church!“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” Holy moley! This is, of course, offensive to Obamatons because it is direct violation ...

Remainders: Northern exposure
Ben Smith's Blog — George W. Bush speaks at the Republican convention tonight, via satellite. Lindsay Lohan urges America to focus on the issues, not Palin's personal life. Rick Davis says the campaign isn't about the issues. Remember when he said it was about the issues?  Huffpo has video of Palin speaking to her church -- complete with her description of her son's Jesus fish tattoo. Phil Gramm assures McCain supporters that they aren't "whiners." Ryan Lizza hangs out in  the McCain spin ...

With the Palin selection, Camp Grandpa has also lost Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue
Brilliant at Breakfast — Praise the Lord and pass the popcorn. You thought Jeremiah Wright was going to be a problem for Barack Obama this fall? Let them just try. Then we will take on the Wasilla, Alaksa Assembly of God: ...

Palin Foreign Policy
democracyarsenal.org — ... policy credentials. It really speaks to McCain’s judgment that he, a person who claims to be an expert on these issues, would actually choose as his running mate someone who couldn’t even converse about basic foreign policy issues. What we know: Palin got a passport in 2007. She claims to have visited Germany, Kuwait and Ireland…but we’re now learning that the Ireland “trip” was a refueling stop. Oh, and she has been to Canada. She sees the war in Iraq as “A mission from God”…but really hasn’t focused on it…but she favors an exit plan. ...

More Nuggets from the Palin Gold Mine
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... of young Bristol Palin, the Huffington Post has a disturbing report on Ma Palin’s right-wing church: “Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war ‘contending for your faith;’ and said that Jesus ‘operated from that position of war mode.’ ” ...

GOP convention, night two: Thompson and Lieberman
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... for now, but if you’re hungry for more, here’s tomorrow’s “scandal” today: HuffPo video of her addressing a Pentecostal church and asking for prayers that the task of U.S. troops be “a task that is from God” and “that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” NBC has already picked it up and is naturally ...

What The Left Finds Offensive About Palin
Rhymes With Right — She's a conservative woman. She's a believing Christian. And she prays in public -- horrendous, outrageous prayers like this : "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." I guess praying for the troops and our nation's leaders makes one unqualified for high office in this country. I ...

Remainders: "Transpartisan"
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... Byron York reveals the Bristol rollout -- the McCain campaign gave the heads up to 40 culturally conservative leaders. A Lowry emailer wonders if the Palin/Clinton dramas will end up setting back women in politics. Redstate pounces on the Palin oppo dump. Yuval Levin defends the McCain vetting process. The Ron Paul convention! Palin met with AIPAC today. She has an earmarking past. Huffpo scrounges up the inevitable Palin pastor video.

MSNBC Attempting to Make Palin McCain's Rev. Wright?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The video, first reported by the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com, is from a June Palin speech to the graduating class of commission students at Palin's former church in Wasilla, Alaska. While describing her family, Palin told students about her oldest son, 19-year-old Track, who is set to be deployed to Iraq this month with the U.S. Army. She urged students to pray "that our leaders -- that our national leaders -- are sending [soldiers] out on a task that is from God."  ...

What Did I Miss?
The Mahablog — ... pregnant? They might as well pay for the wedding and divorce in one package deal. It would save both those children, and the baby, a lot of grief. Right now I’m too tired to go through all the Palin family dramas that have turned up just today. The biggies: The Palin’s association with an extremist, anti-American secessionist movement; as governor, Palin slashed money for teen moms; just three months ago, Palin called the Iraq war a messianic affair in which the United States could do the will of the Lord. Sarah Palin ...

Impossible dilemmas
The Poor Man Institute — ... crazy.  And in those areas where he isn’t actually crazy, he is willing to act crazy to appease the Crazy Bush Base.  He is a very angry little man.  And now, in his one pre-executive decision, he has managed to pick the craziest, stupidest, most unqualified, most embarrassing candidate since the Foley Administration …  and whose pastor believes that terrorism is God’s judgment on the Jews, and that people who don’t love Bush are damned … and whose undeclared business was shut down by ...

Palin at controversial church: Iraq war and gas pipeline are God's will
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Sounds like a continuation of Bush's idea of God's will in Iraq though I suspect if asked, Bush would also throw in a natural gas pipeline from Alaska as well just for good measure. ...

I post, you guess
BlueNC - The people's think tank — ... is getting more credit than she's due. But of course, she does have god on her side, so that's something. And of course, her "daughter's decision" to marry the father comes just in the nick of time to coincide with Palin's coronation as Miss Congeniality in the Republican National Convention. If the kid really made that choice, why didn't it happen five months ago when she got pregnant instead of getting announced the day after mommy jumped in John McCain's pocket? ...

Palin's church
Daimnation! — If Barack Obama's pastor was a legitimate campaign issue, so is this: A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin's longtime spiritual home. The church runs a number of ministries providing help to poor neighborhoods, care for children in need, and general community services. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 ...

Website with Speeches and Sermons from Palin's Former Church Shuts Down as Religious Views of Candidate Face Scrutiny
Political Punch — ... are ecstatic about one of our own being thrust to the national forefront. However, as a church, it is not appropriate for us to endorse any one candidate over another."The Book of First Timothy, the church said, "tells us pray for those in authority. This we will do no matter who is elected. We wish the best to Governor Palin, and Senator McCain, as well as to Senator Obama and Senator Biden."Some of the video of Palin speaking at the Wasilla Assembly of God commencement address was recently posted at the liberal Huffington Post . The governor is shown speaking comfortably ...

Thy will be done
The Reaction — ... Sarah Palin. Was this in reference to taking care of the helpless? She certainly wasn't advocating for helping unwed teenage mothers or any such liberalmarxistfarleftcommie stuff. She's talking about the Gas God, the Republican God. His name is greed, his name is selfish, his name is vanity itself. "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said to her pentecostal church. No matter what the media pretends to advocate, Sarah ...

“Grapevine” Shines Spotlight On Jeremiah Wright While Palin’s Pastors Are Invisible
News Hounds — ... to the congregation. Brickner, who attributes terrorist attacks in Israel to those Jews who don’t accept Jesus, has drawn fire from the Jewish community and the ADL. But for more information on how Palin’s worldview was shaped by her religion, see Sam Stein’s informative article which references how Palin, in addressing her congregation, said that the war in Iraq is a “messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.” There’s lots more information including comments from Pastor Kalnins about how those who voted for John Kerry might not get to ...

Maybe They Should Go To Church Once For the Experience
Chicago BoyzAn amusing little bit of religious ignorance from Huffington Post: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.” In other word: “Pray that we’re doing the right thing.” Wow, I can ...

Wednesday Mostly Palin Bashing
Discourse.net — ... Palin’s Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview (“Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war “contending for your faith;” and said that Jesus ‘operated from that position of war mode.’”) ...

AP Next Going After Palin's 'Derided' Religion
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Apparently the AP is taking its cue from an overwrought HuffingtonPost entry worried that Palin's "controversial worldview" was shaped by her church. Once again, it looks like the Old Media is taking its marching orders from left-wing, extremists websites. ...

guns and religion, huh?
BlondeSense — ... . Among other things. Public speaker she is not. -------------- UPDATE FROM LIZ: You can read more about this at Huffington Post with quotes from her speech. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." and "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get ...

Oh God
Suburban GuerrillaSigh. Chris, pass me some of that glue. Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that ...

Yawn: The AP smears Palin over prayer for troops in Iraq
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... I mentioned this in Tuesday’s convention thread but now that the smear’s broken big it deserves fuller attention. It’s come to this, kids: The Huffington Post, Arianna’s playpen, is actually fairer to Palin than the Associated Press. Watch the clip at the link ; the money part runs from about 5:30 to 6:15. HuffPo quotes her, accurately:“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what ...

AP Next Going After Palin’s ‘Derided’ Religion
Stop The ACLU — ... and her hard working, middle class family have for the last 6 years belonged to the Wasilla Bible Church which is not a Pentecostal Church but describes itself as an independent evangelical church. So, even if she were raised in the Pentecostal Church — and even if we were to be alarmed at this — she left it behind 6 years ago. So, where is the “obscuring,” where is the secretive past? Apparently the AP is taking its cue from an overwrought HuffingtonPost entry worried that Palin’s “controversial worldview” was shaped by her church. Once again, it looks like the Old Media is ...

The Left Hates Hatred! How Hateful!
Firedoglake — ... you see, we do. I myself had no idea I had anything against her personally. I thought the fact that she lied flat-out in her Teh Awesomes speech about the Bridge to Nowhere made her look like, uh, a liar, a class of person whom I tend not to particularly admire. I also am not pleased about her ridiculous global warming position, and yeah, her position on gay marriage makes her look like a bigot. A foreign policy that is more pragmatic and less messianic and ill-informed might also be nice to see, given how unhappily the last ...

It's Sunday...
Mudville Gazette — ... Over at The Sniffington Post they're salivating over the discovery that Sarah Palin is a Christian (no, really!?!). Not since the Democratic primaries have I heard an attack on a candidate's religion - or lack thereof. (Obama is a Muslim! Obama's Pastor is a whack job!) but I suspect that having been denied two well-planned attacks (Romney is a MORMON! Liebermann is a JEW!) the Sniffpo crowd is whipping out some prepared remarks, changing a name and a few keywords, and misfiring on this one instead (ready, fire, aim!). ...

Crazy Like the ADL’s Foxman
Firedoglake — ... The latest example: Sarah Palin's connections to the Dominionist End-Times movement -- you know, the folks that are "friends" with Israel only because they want to see it destroyed in Armageddon? More specifically, her pastor Larry Kroon's links to ...

Palin's beliefs draw closer scrutiny
Political Animal — ... about their comfort level. From my perspective, I'm very much inclined to consider all of this a personal matter, outside the political realm. I do, however, think Palin, given her public comments, should answer a few reasonable questions: * Does she believe in the separation of church and state? Is she comfortable with a government that remains entirely neutral on matters of faith? * Does she believe public officials should use religious beliefs to shape public policy? Palin recently said those fighting the war in Iraq are "out on a task that is from God," and added, in the ...

McCain campaign endorses Palin’s claim that the Iraq war is a task ‘from God.’
Think Progress — ... In June, when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addressed the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God, she “painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.” “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” said Palin. In a statement to the New York Sun yesterday, McCain campaign spokesman Michael ...

No Tough Questions For Palin's Controversial Ex-Pastor From Greta
News Hounds — ... Greta Van Susteren has continued her Palin promotion by actually going to Alaska and stumping interviewing on her behalf. Last night (9/9/08), Van Susteren interviewed Palin's controversial former pastor, Ed Kalnins, who said, for example, that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell. Kalnins also questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven. But did Van Susteren ask Kalnins about any of his tendentious statements? Whether or not Palin agreed with them? Of course not! Video after the jump. ...

Palin's memory better than Gibson's research skills?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words when he said -- first, he suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. See also Hot Air, which keeps going; and ABC News for the partial transcript. Anyway, her comment actually makes perfect sense, given that what she originally said was (via HuffPo): "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what ...

Charlie Gibson, Probably Innocently, Distorts Palin’s Prayer
Patterico's Pontifications — ... went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.” This is a distortion of what Palin said. Palin didn’t say the war was a task from God. She said: pray that the war is a task from God. She didn’t say the war was God’s plan. She said: pray that it is God’s plan. In other words, pray that we are carrying out God’s will. Here’s the accurate quotation, from the Huffington Post, complete with a clip: “Pray for our military men and women who are ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Get It Right, ABC
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... . I've suspected for some time that the next page in the playbook is to make Sarah Palin sound like some kind of religious wacko (payback, perhaps, for the genuinely offensive Jeremiah Wright?). Here's a prime example, in fact. And a significant omission on Charlie Gibson's part tonight only reinforces my suspicion. Here's the exchange: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war? PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. Only ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... And I give him a huge amount of credit for going up on 9/11, on her son's induction day, and not asking, or at least not broadcasting, any heart-tugging questions. (He did use the induction to segue into questions about her church video, although she ...

How would the far left treat FDR today?
Sister Toldjah — ... Considering how freaked out they are over comments Gov. Palin made in her church a few months ago where she said: ...

USA Today: Gov. Palin is not a ‘religious wacko’ and works well with Democrats
Sister Toldjah — ... Anyone with an open mind who reads that article will discover quickly that she’s not the ‘religious wacko’ certain folks on the far left have made her out to be. As I wrote ...

If you quote someone inaccurately, you're a journalist. If you quote someone accurately, you're a hatemonger.
Jihad Watch — Sarah Palin with a "journalist" From ABC's Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin last night: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war? PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. What Palin actually said: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this ...

Tolerist Double Standard of the Day Award
All — ... on ABC's Charlie Gibson interviewing Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin with a "journalist" From ABC's Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin last night: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war? PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. What Palin actually said: "Pray for our military men and women ...

On The Beach
Antiwar.com Original — ... , by Herman Kahn. Especially if a President Palin subscribes to the views of her former Assembly of God pastor about The Last Days . "I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them." You see, far too many people's conception of the aftermath of an all-out war with Russia, which would involve the delivery of thousands of megatons of nuclear-fission weapons on America, have been falsely shaped by Nevil Shute's novel ...

The Gifted and the Afflicted
The American Spectator — ... Muslims. Anyone who didn't know better, or who looked for news in Huffington Post stories with headlines like "Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview," might suppose that it was the governor of Alaska who listened to the "prophetic" rants of a professional grievance-monger for 20 years. In the Democratic catechism, support for abortion on demand trumps religious affiliation, which is why self-described progressives fret more about Christian Republicans than about Christian Democrats, and why more stories are written about George W. Bush's faith than about ...

Palin's Pentecostal witch hunter
Political Animal — ... with witches. Voters' comfort levels will vary, and I'm still inclined to think politicians' spiritual beliefs, whether part of the mainstream or not, are a personal matter. I do, however, have two unresolved questions. First, does she believe in the separation of church and state, and is she comfortable with a government that remains entirely neutral on matters of faith? And second, does she believe public officials should use religious beliefs to shape public policy? Palin recently said those fighting the war in Iraq are "out on a task that is from God," and added, in the ...

John McCain hires Sarah Palin’s Kenyan Pastor to "remove Witchcraft from U.S. economy"
Shakesville — ... Palin. "He’s praying, ‘Lord, make a way. Lord, make a way.’ I’m thinking this guy is really bold. He doesn’t know what I’m going to do. He doesn’t know what my plans are, and he’s praying not, ‘Oh Lord, if it be your will, may she become Governor.’ No. He just prayed for it. ‘Lord, make a way and let her do this next step,’ and that’s exactly what happened. So, again very, very powerful coming from this church, so that was awesome about Pastor Muthee.” Speaking at the Wasilla Assembly of God, Muthee said he was prepared for the challenge of healing the U.S. ...

VP Debate: The Moose is Obtuse
The Latest on Air America — ... I read about a study that I may be mis-remembering (what I remember is the point, even if I've invented the whole thing) where researchers brought together "prim" types, you know, like church ladies and the like peppered here and there with regular women. They showed these "subjects" a photograph that showed a cute little dog. In the foreground was the profile of a young woman's exposed breast. Very few outside the control group reported that there was a breast in the picture. They didn't see it! Now listen up. Red state America doesn't see what we do ...

Liberal Catholic Bigotry Against Sarah Palin
American Thinker — ... former British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. Nor has Wills suggested that Obama might be unfit for consideration because of his associations with William Ayers, the unrepentant former Weather Underground terrorist, or Tony Rezko, who was convicted in June for seeking bribes from companies that wanted to do business with the State of Illinois. Yet liberal Catholics suggest that Palin should not be elected because of her religious associations and views. Consider reaction to this statement Palin made in June at the Wasilla Assembly of God, now her former church:"Pray for ...

Sarah Palin’s Crazy Ex-Satanists
Firedoglake — Are ex-satanists the new ex-gays?  I sure hope so.  Ex-gays are pathetic and sad ("I'm totally denying my sexuality, and you all should too!"), but ex-satanists are hilarious - especially when they're members of an Assemblies of God front group! (Y'all remember Sarah Palin's church, right?)  I just wish Amy Klobuchar hadn't requested a $500,000 earmark for them.  WTF, Amy? ...

Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits
Crooks and Liars — ... these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy..." (Misunderstanding Alaska's 3.5% share of U.S. domestic energy production, September 11, 2008.) "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America." (October 16, 2008.) "A task that is from God." (On the war in Iraq, June 8, 2008.) "I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies ...

Sarah Palin Interviews on O’Reilly: Are They Finally Over?
News Hounds — ... as normal now as I was back then when I was the mayor of Wasila, I’m still raising my kids . . . I’m the same person today as I was then, minus, I guess, a little bit of the spotlight.” First of all, I’ve been meaning to ask: Who is, by the way, raising your kids? You’re on a book tour, lady. It might be Todd, it might be Bristol, but one person it appears not to be is you. And second – this “normal” thing you talk about “back then” . . . wasn’t that when you, as reported by the Huffington Post, “painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United ...

In Their Own Words
MyDD — ... In the past at her Wasilla Assembly of God church, Palin has painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. ...

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WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to ...
McCain Says He is Satisfied With Palin VettingFOXNews.com 9/2/2008
PHILADELPHIA — Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he is satisfied that Sarah Palin’s background was properly checked before the Alaska governor became his vice-presidential running-mate. “The vetting process was ...
McCain says Palin thoroughly vettedmsnbc.com: Politics 9/2/2008
The Republican presidential candidate said Tuesday he's satisfied that Sarah Palin's background was properly checked out before the Alaska governor joined the Republican ticket.
Panelists defend Palin's family and nodPOLITICO.com: Politics 9/2/2008
At breakfast forum, they swat down speculation about the Palins but acknowledge there are risks to her nomination.
Fred Thompson: Palin Is ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’WSJ.com: Washington Wire 9/2/2008
Susan Davis reports from St. Paul, Minn., on the Republican convention. Former Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson defended John McCain ’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , as a victim of left-wing media attacks who ...