Web Site With Speeches and Sermons From Palin’s Former Church Shuts Down as Religious Views of Candidate Face Scrutiny

Rev. Wright was unavailable for comment.

And it just keeps a-comin’.
Seriously, this MUST be getting on some people’s nerves down at McCain Central.
I think I can hear someone go “sheesh, I wonder what’s next!?” at the coffee machine…

As Evangelical Christian who in the Palin family is recognized as the moral authority in the household?

Hey, all you who are blasting Rev. Wright and G.D.America, did any of you EVER take the time to hear the entire sermon? No. Gee, I didn’t think so. You listen to the propaganda machine and go “baa baa baa” like the good little sheep you are.

I don’t think this is going to help the Republicans in Florida……

But it’s apparently fine by her when her pastor says that people who vote for John Kerry won’t go to heaven.
Who would have thought that the candiate who was demonized by the lunatic right wing fringe in 2000 is now leading it?

Send in the cleaners. And I wonder when young Mr. Johnston found out he was getting married.. probably the same time as everyone else. Especially since he claimed on his MySpace page to not want any children. That’s also been shut down, and I bet they give him a nice shave and haircut to go with a new suit when he shows up in St. Paul. Its all damage control now for the party of the f’n rednecks.
As an Illinois Republican who doesn’t have much to be proud of here besides Peter Roskam and Mark Kirk, now the national party continues its slide into further embarrassment and ridicule.

Marylou, obama is black, well he is legally black but half white, which still puts the empty suit in the off limits territory.

Karma, baby. Karma! Now who’s got pastor problems. Heehee.

marylou: OMG what country have you been in this past 2 years… I have had Rev. Wright shoved so far down my throat my stomach aches. Get a grip!

At least we know Rev Wright served America in Vietnam.
However McCain`s spiritual guides who would not risk their lives for America but rather preach hatred against fellow Americans.

Seriously Senator Mccain, didn’t you learn from George McGovern in ’72 that you have to do more than a minimal background check on your VP?

So FoxNews covers Rev Wright 24/7 for a month.
A blip story about
RW reaction? Where are the Wright stories! Why won’t the media cover this?
You want to know why?
Political amnesia is a necessary components to being a right winger.
You have to forget the horrible things you did and extoll the recent good things.
Examples.
McCain touts his wife Cindy, pretends 1st wife does not exist.
Bush brings every resource to bear for Gustav and Republicans pat themselves on the back for not repeating Katrina.
McCain votes for a war based on a lie. Touts his support on a later specific war policy to claim we are winning a war we should have never fought.
RWer call Hillary the most horrible names for 15 years. 3 months into Dem primary, Hillary is venerated by the right wing.
McCain campaign for months hammers Obama on his experience. Then they pick a neopyhte unknown gov from a small state….rwers tout her executive experience!
And just last night, to get them to boo Obama, Joementum got them to simultaneously cheer Bill Clinton.
At least I hope its political amnesia because otherwise it just means right wingers are craven people who are practically sociopaths.

Oooops, I guess that McPOdubya just lost another plank in his platform against Obama huh? Can’t claim he doesn’t have the experience anymore and now can’t blast him for the Rev. Wright nonsense. Sarah Palin, the Democrat’s gift that just keeps on giving.

Sue and the rest of you who are “sick ” of this:
Obama went through this religious scutiny foe months on end and no one stepped forward and said it was disgusting. You all jumped on the bandwagon and called him a Muslum, athiest andf everything else negative.

“In an election year full of amazing events to me the most hard to understand is how Hillary ran such a lousy campaign and how John McCain go announce his VP candidate with such poor vetting. These two are supposed to be pros, experienced, staffed by the best. I don’t get it at all.”
You shall know them by their deeds and not their reputations.

The McCain campaign seems paranoid about the Obama campaign and the media. Do they have any proof that all this is coming from Obama’s people? For having delt with the Reverend Wright controversy, he would have to be really stupid to be pushing a story like this one. Which proves to me that the McCain people are starting to act out irrational since they cannot even decide who to blame for the lack of judgement from their candidate.

She is a religious fanatic who courted (and her husband was a member of) a group that wants Alaska to secede from the U.S. THAT is a disqualifier in my book to even remotely THINK about being VP. The Reps went after Obama with a vengence for something as trivial as not wearing a lapel pin, yet someone who wants Alaska to secede from the U.S. and hates the U.S. is second in line to be Commander in Chief of the armed forces? And a former P.O.W. picked this unpatriotic person to be his VP? Are you freakin’ kidding me?! America should be outraged! She is a nutjob, and anyone who votes for McCain/Palin is a nutjob.

lol
people still saying this is the media…
aye aye aye
take off the blinders…this avalanche osf issues…is overwhelming…
it’s not one scandal…not one misinformation…
not one closed down business or ethical question…
it is not just one denial of science…
or one issue that the world faces that she has no reported familiarity or statements or judgments on
it is overwhelming
the worst VP choice in the history of our nation.
all in the name of game playing gender politics…
get this guy to retire…yesterday. When he still had some trace of his old character.

They had to close down the website in preparation to rename it…
“the judicial branch of the United States of America”

Where was ABC or when Obama scurbbs his website daily. when Wright’s website was scrubbed? Wright -scrubbed Pfleger -scrubbed. Surge bashing by Obama-scrubbed.

Karen a more apt question is where is Sarah Palin answering her own questions.
…learning how to answer 30 second soundbites on how to be the leader of the free world?
Biden Mccain Obama Clinton Hutchinson you name it…answer hard questions themselves…
the problem is this woman can’t unless it is in a controlled speech written by someone else.

Sarah Palin fires up the conservative and evangelical base and she attracts female swing voters and hardcore Hillary supporters out to wreck things fo the Democrats. Repubs know they don’t have to get many Hillary supporters. A few percentage points will make the difference. No wonder the Obamabots and their conspirators in the MSM are going after Palin so visciously. The nastiness of the attacks is indicative of their fear.

Wow, the MSM will go to any lenght to dig up dirt on Palin, even if it’s unfounded. The double standard here is glaring and the media risks real damage her by appearing to lose all objectivity in this campaign. The MSM is so in bed with Obama they don’t even seem to care about being blatantly biased any more. I used to be a Democrat until this year, and now I can see why so many others have left the party over the years.

My father literally built this “controversial” church. We attended it for years, and the media really had to dig to find some dirt. The church is NOT political, but I am certain that errors from the pulpit occurred. You cannot compare the hatefulness of Obama’s church with Wasilla AOG. Pastor Riley (who has been retired for a very long time) was Sarah’s pastor for years, and he was a just, honest, level-headed man. Besides, Sarah used her judgement, and moved to another church when she disagreed with the church leadership, not when the media convinced her it would be politically expedient. But, like most things, liberals are too blind to the truth to understand the difference between the hate of Black Liberation Theology and genuine religious convictions.

This is nothing compared to the freak show that played in Obama’s church for 20 years. Since some seem to have forgotten “evil white people” and “chickens coming home to roost” and “US of KKK,” perhaps a comparitive religion piece is in order. I don’t doubt that most Americans will find Palin’s church much more mainstream than the extremely bigoted and anti-american fare served at the church that the Obamas attended for years.

Andy as we have seen what’s good for the goose is good for the gander…
the media is now going to go through those statements from that church and parse them together and we will watch on top of all her other issues how a church can look from 5 minutes of a lifetime of video…
will Palin actually answer questions on this?
since she can’t seem to answer questions outside a speech written by someone else.

Invading Iraq and bringing
blight to that country is
her God’s plan?

I’d be interested to read anything Palin may have said/written on the separation of church and state.

geevil
the difference is Biden answered questions himself…
The difference is Biden has NEVER been asked about those. or “Oh that Joe’s” daily gaffes and bizarre ramblings.

Anon:
Did you read the whole sentence about what Palin really said?
“She very clearly was saying that she’s praying for military men and women to do what’s right,” Goldfarb said. “Every religious American prays that the what the U.S. is doing in Iraq is something that is a righteous act.”
Religious Americans regularly pray that acts they take, and acts they take, are the correct, or righteous ones, Goldfarb said, arguing that was what Palin meant by her remarks.

“The difference is Biden has NEVER been asked about those”
Actually he has been dealing with much of that his entire political life.
Palin has yet to answer any questions from the press (and no I do not count People magazine as press).
John McCain is set to give his 1st interview (and no Leno does not count) since the houses gaffe tonite.
What happened to being available for questions and all the tough talk about having question and answer period every month like in Parliment?
Guess he realized the press was calling his bluff, so he ran away.

Three times McCain has spoken out against Earmarks requested by the Mayor of WASILLA Alaska. The then mayor ? Sarah Palin

sounds like her thoughts on separation of church and state is that we separate by replacing science and law with the church.

Thank you, Andy.
And at least Palin had the GOOD judgment to move to another church BEFORE it came under scrutiny…….

“sounds like her thoughts on separation of church and state is that we separate by replacing science and law with the church”
Just the people to lead us in the 21st century.
Obama is talking about investment in our education to make us more competitive on the world market.
This woman wants to teach creationism.

“Palin was only introduced to the media about 5 days ago. why is it ok for Obama not to speak to press for about 3 weeks,”
Obama went on vacation for a week and since then Obama has been speaking to the press. He will sit down with O’Reilly on Thurs. McCain ran away from Larry King because Samantha Brown humiliated one of his spox.
BTW, you don’t think its important that people get to know Palin through press interviews before she is nominated to be VP?

With all this attention on McCain/Palin I’m kind of wondering Obama who?

This is excerpts from Palin’s church speech. directly from Huffington post – the Obama post:
Read for yourself:
“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.”

Sandy B
“And at least Palin had the GOOD judgment to move to another church BEFORE it came under scrutiny…….“
——————————————
But her thoughts and beliefs remain the same.
Worst VP pick in American history. Bad judgment from McCain.

So amy what do you think of Palin blaming falsified intelligence and a rush to war on God?

Can’t we get past these religious issues and focus on whose policies would be best for this country.

Mark
“And at least Palin had the GOOD judgment to move to another church BEFORE it came under scrutiny…….“
Yes, and it looks like she moved to a new church… where this pastor is saying controversial things…
This shows exactly what???

Dl,
Most things in the Palin story have turned out to be false.
Commander in Chief experience with National Guard? Nope.
Against the Bridge to Nowhere – for it before she agin it and she kept the earmark money.
Against earmarks? Nope had a list of $200M for Ted Stevens just 6 months ago.
Reformer? Extension ties to Ted Stevens, only throwing him under the bus when he got indicted.
Even their description of the vetting process has been rife with lies.

“When is McCain and Palin going to face tough questions from the press.”
When the press starts asking tough questions instead of smearing them with DailyKos talkingpoints.

“When is McCain and Palin going to face tough questions from the press”
McCain is doing an interview tonite after chickening out against Larry King last night.
Palin was interviewed by People magazine.
I can’t believe that she will answer ZERO press questions before she is officially nominated.

WOW! this is terrible that Palin’s church is this viscious. Should we just overlook it after what happened to Obama? I think not. Let’s let this ride for a while.

She’s into banning/burning books, too. What about snake handling? And AIP…holy crap, who’s keeping count?
And Sally, Rev. Wright just fell off the republican talking point table.
Cornell, did you even read what her church is saying??…oh wait, Bush (because that’s who’s now fully involved now) is scrubbing this.
McCain/Palin = Crash/Burn

I tend to agree that Palin’s “God’s plan” comment doesn’t have any messianic implications. What’s more disturbing is that it’s been reported that her pastor has made some extremely inflammatory comments. One of them reportedly was that people who voted for John Kerry in 2004 would go to hell.
Isn’t that exactly as bad as Rev. Wright’s “God d*** America” comment? Or maybe it’s worse, since America is a society and couldn’t suffer the eternal torment that real live Americans who voted for Kerry would, if this guys theology is correct.

Obama writes most if not all of his own speeches and is hailed as one of the great orators of our time.
Compare that with our current President whose lips practically move as he reads the teleprompter.

“If McCain is afraid of our domestic press how will he handle the world?”
Last weekend I watched two park rangers poke sticks at a copperhead curled up inside a log outside our cabin door. The snake being smarter than the rangers pulled further into the log. Of course, we spent the day with the snake because it was smart enough to withdraw and I wasn’t stupid enough to push my hand into the log and the rangers weren’t patient enough to wait for sundown.
McCain is handling the press like I handle the snake in the log. As long as it keeps its distance, it gets to live another day. If it comes out at sunset, it gets to meet the business end of Mr. Hoe.
How will he handle the world? Like the snake that it is on some days, and like the park rangers on others.

I am always amaze at how people could be so hypocritical in their assessment of life. It appears as if there is a double standard scale that is used to weigh decisions and judgments of these presidential candidates. Isn’t it funny how some people have the gall to imply that Obama is an empty suit. A man that wrote two best-selling books and graduated at the top of his class at Harvard which is no small feat and not for the “empty headed.” It appears that Obama is criticized for being a community leader for twenty years but Sarah Palin is applauded for being on the PTA board. This experience is considered legitimate however, Obama experience is mocked. Many come and proclaim Sarah Palin has experience as a Mayor over a small town and overlook Obama experience as a senator from Illinois for eight years. It is not even considered in the equation of evaluation on the “experience” thermometer. It is also interesting to note that Obama can be berated and mocked continually and rumors about him being a Muslim is forever spreaded in spite of facts otherwise…and yet when questions are put forward about Sarah the old gender card is played. So, is it safe to assume that if Sarah can not be critique due to her gender…shall we be fair and apply that same ruler to Obama…Let’s say that each and every time a question emerges about Obama experience..shall we holler “racism?” You can not have it both ways. If the gender card is going to be played..then let’s bring out the race deck for it has been dealt since Obama first ran as quiet as it is kept…the old elephant in the room that we keep pretending has no relevance. I only wish America was that advanced..but it is not.

“”Isn’t that exactly as bad as Rev. Wright’s “God d*** America” comment?”
Given the context of Wright dicscussing the US government’s policies of discrimination and examples of racism, God Damn America comes off more like an indictment of shameful US actions.
But aren’t discrimination and racism shameful actions??? I’m confused.

The VP to the potential 72 year old POTUS has attended a church most of her life that WANTS HOLY WARS and END TIMES!!! You want to hand over “the button” to that?????? It’s simply a matter of looking up Assemblies of God and their doctrine. Much of their focus is on bringing about Armageddon and the second coming. NOT VP MATERIAL.
GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT FOLKS. PALIN HAS MUCH BIGGER CHURCH ISSUES THAN OBAMA

Finally, Mainstream media does it’s job.
Mainstream media has been John McCain’s best friend. They have allowed him to pass on things that American voters should have been made aware. They have allowed gaffe after gaffe, pass after pass.
McCain, you fool, why did you Bite the hands that feed you? They were covering for you, but you had to blow it. Being vindictive and arrogant, thinking you had them under your spell.
Stop whining. Man Up. Take it like a man. All eyes on you and your in competencies. They are not covering for you anymore.

“What political figure comes to mind when we think of book burning? Please, everyone focus on this issue.”
Bill Ayers? Oh wait, he blew up buildings.

Hey, you people bringing up Rev Wright, don’t you realize that was shoved down our throat for months. Did any of you read his sermons? He was speaking out against perceived injustices to the Black Community. The “chickens coming home to roast” was actually a quote from a former US ambassador to the UN who was commenting on how America’s foreign policy in the middle east created blow back that strengthened fundamentalist groups like Al Queada. Maybe if you knew anything about the US’s history in the region you might understand why we are so hated. They do not hate our freedom and our culture, they hate what we have done abroad. Maybe you heard of the US giving Saddam weapons or training Bin Laden or supporting a dictator in Iran. No? Now don’t think I am excusing 9/11 because those attacks are just despicable and those that did that are hateful evil people. However, if you suggest that US actions in the middle east does not attribute to anti-americanism that terrorists thrive off then you are delusional. Everyone in the world knew that eventually someone would strike out back against us but such an acknowledgment in the US is unpatriotic. Guess what I realize America made mistakes and I love America so much that I want to question and criticize our leaders so that we can truly live up to our own principles. Like John Kerry said, “Yeah my country right or wrong, but when wrong make it right”. isn’t that what this election is about making right the mistakes of the last 8 years

“The point is , the church issue is but another red flag in an emerging sea of red flags which casts some serious doubts on her fitness to be a heartbeat away from the Preidency.”
Are you kidding????
Obama is the KING of red flags. There are very few people that could top his red flags … and he is at the top of his ticket.
I will take AIP/pregnant teen/controversial guest speaker over 20 yrs in racist church that teaches children that the gov gives people AIDS/Chicago corrupt politican butt kissing/first time proud of country/Farrakahn/Haamas/lying about history/phone banks in Gaza/etc/etc/etc

“Did any of you read his sermons?”
Didn’t you get the memo? Barry threw Wright and his church of 20 years under the bus when he thought that they may interfere with his ego-driven run for the Presidency.
uh…that’s not the mentor that I knew for 20 years….uh…

Geevil at 1:37 is right. Republicans haven’t really used the Wright stuff, yet. Some who don’t follow politics may not even know the falp over the whole Trinity/Wright/Pflager/black liberation theology/damn this and that, and bringing THIS NOTHING OF A STORY out there WOULD ONLY HURT THEM, BECAUSE WRIGHT WILL BE REVISITED.
Probably a tape locked up somewhere with BO and wifey in the pews dancing when Wright is hollering slander..
NEVER OBAMA – HILL SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN!

I’ll take Palin’s experience over Obambi’s, who was so intimidated by her executive experience that he actually called his presidential campaign “executive experience”.
True story. Better than Leno.
I think it’s funny that the libs are so desperate that they’re trying to compare Palin’s former – by six years – conservative small-town church to Obama’s race-hate, Farrakhan-following Wright whom Obambi couldn’t, then did, throw under the bus with his grandmother.
Maybe Wright can get his book out in October.
I’m also laughing that Biden, who voted for the war before he was against it, is on the Dem ticket with Obambi, who was against the war before he was for a surge in Afghanistan.
Biden/Obambi: A pair of foreign-policy failures.

Sarah Palin does not represent the average women. She is RICH. She owns a few houses and a private plane. She hires nannies to take care of her children. She is another power hungry Republican who doesn’t practice what she preaches.

“. . . political intolerance by any political party is neither a Judeo-Christian nor an American value. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values.
“They are corrupting influences on religion and politics and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.
“Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.”
John McCain
April 2000
James Dobson on John McCain: “I pray that we won’t get stuck with him”
Jan. 14, 2007

The left wing media has gone way too far this time around. This sexist and degrading stream of fictional attacks and grabbing at straws is one of the saddest things I have seen in my 33 years on this planet.
Babies are not issues. Children are not issues, and the media has no right to demand paternity test to see if your child is really yours. You folks are making America sick to their stomach and losing this election for Barack Obama.
From your dummy polls with baited audience to the horrid attacks of the past few days. The media is scared their golden child, fools gold, is losing and thus they have taken a line that ensures loss.
This is the ugliest campaign I have ever seen. I have already stopped watching 3 major networks because of this coverage and would like to applaud Fox News for standing up and condemning the actions of mainstream media. You should be shamed.
Andy

“It’s fun watching the media properly vetting a candidate”
Yeah especially after they never vetted “the one”.

Funny how the Republicans can dish it out but can’t take it. I am glad that the Democratic party is fighting back. If the tables were turned, the Republicans would be the first ones making sushi out of Gov. Palin.

Obama has nothing to do with the investigation of Sarah Palin. He’s an honorable man and, frankly, too busy running a presidential campaign.
I would like to know, though, if she is truthful. Only that. Whether it’s a pregnancy or big oil, I think we all deserve a candidate who tells the truth. I’m not yet satisfied that she’s honest.
I, personally, as a private citizen, am one of those who wants to know more about Sarah Palin. She could be the next vice president of the United States, and maybe even the president. We know John McCain. We know Barack Obama. We know Joe Biden. Each has tons of official records and statements just a click away. But who is Sarah Palin?

You got it Ernesto!
Bullies don’t like being socked in the mouth and right now the Republicans are getting their just desserts.
Look at how they whine and whine.
This is the tough guy party?

“Obama: Kids off limits”
uh…I have no control over my surrogates…uh

In other words, it’s perfectly ok for any GOP candidate to be a raving religious lunatic, but god forbid a Democrat should have been anywhere near anyone who said anything controversial, ever. Because I guess Republicans retain their good judgment and morality no matter what they hear in church, while Democrats just soak it all up like a sponge…poor things.
The hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so important.

“We know Barack Obama”
Which one? The one to left, the one to the right or the one in the center?
Posted by: Mack | Sep 3, 2008 3:51:46 PM
The one in the center and who has always been there. He just looked left cuz you were right, and right to those who were left.
It’s called perspective. Got it?

“You should ask that question to the guy who proudly proclaimed he only watches FoxNews.”
I’m with him. I can’t stomach to watch CNN and especially MSNBC anymore.

“The one in the center and who has always been there. He just looked left cuz you were right, and right to those who were left.”
Ha! The most liberal senator. He’s to the right of the socialist party.

Liberals are finding themselves critical of Sarah…. a woman’s choice to raise children and earn a living, calling it bad parenting. Maybe it is because the Dem’s have no one like Sarah. Has anybody ever asked Barry can he bring up his two kids and be president of the United States? If Sarah was a Dem none of this would be an issue. Where are the Feminist? You can not have it both ways. Where are the Feminist? Stop the sexism

Hmm its funny.
Obama is ranked as the most liberal Senator for 2007 when he missed quite a few votes that are part of the review. He was not as liberal in 2006.
John McCain missed so many votes they did not even have enough to calculate his rating.

I will only watch Foxnews because it’s the only place you can get equal and fair coverage of the campaigns.
I’m not alone, because foxnews is consistently the number one news organization on cable. CNN and MSNBC’s numbers are so low it’s laughable, yet they still haven’t caught on because they are still fawning over empty suit Obama. The joke will be on them in Nov.

We have our first glimpse into how a McCain administration would operate…..
COVER IT UP AND BLAME EVERYONE OTHER THAN YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT AND DECISIONS.

“The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine on”
Does your wayback machine show when was the last time that she attended? Otherwise, who cares?

How much more dirty laundry of Sarah Palin’s will come out?
VoteO
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The only dirty laundry Palin has is in her house—-Obama’s is too dirty to be laundered.

I downloaded the entire catalog yesterday! LMAO

Rev. Wright’s website was scrubbed long ago. I think JT reported it here, in fact.

So Mack about those Obama surrogates going after Palin’s daughter. Can you name them?
Or are you going to run away from the question like your candidate does?

I read nothing scandelous here. Was it objectionable for her to pray for our troops. Was it bad that the church said it wished both parties well. I guess I missed it. What exactly is in this article that some find objectionable about Palin?

“I don’t know where you get your statistics”
The statistics are taken from FEC donations records vs your small little world of right wingers
Obama gets more money from servicemen and women than any Presidential candidates grabbing some 57% of the total money given to Prez candidates.
And that is when the GOP has received a majority of total political donations.
Obama also gets 6 times as much money as McCain from servicemen and women who were serving overseas at the time of their donation.
Even Ron Paul got more money from the military than John McCain.
I guess they don’t like McCain’s policy of wars based on lies.

Axlerod: “Barack, I want you to go out and say that family is off limits and no one should discuss Palin’s daughter, I’m going to get our volunteers who blog to slander her and make up stuff and it will make you look lily white. You in?”
Obama: “Sounds like a great plan, she’s a threat to our campaign and it will take the focus off of our sexism. While your at it Axelrod, make sure you tell the bloggers to keep pushing that if they don’t vote for us their racist.”
Axelrod: ” Sounds good, Barry”

“I don’t see where it says Foxnews and Republicans are the only ones who believe this.”
I never said there were the only ones.
I said they were 4 times more likely to believe it.
Seriously, your defense of Foxnews grows weaker when you deliberately misrepresent what I said.

Gee, guess now one can’t control what the preacher will say. Hmmm. And why didn’t Palin just walk out when she heard those crazy words from that visiting preacher? At least Obama was proven not to be there for some of the incendiary stuff he said, so he wasn’t there to have to walk out.
But between this and her belonging to a separatist movement that says they hate America and it’s flag? Yeah. Karmically high-sterical.
I expect that Faux will play the videos of this preacher 24/7 as well, right? They’ll talk about how it goes to Palin’s judgement and McCain’s for picking her without any real vetting, right? Oh yeah I forgot th “librul,” media won’t treat these the same.

Self-centered–Thank you for your kind words. You are correct, they do not take sides while in uniform. The president, whomever it may be, is their commander-in-chief. They do what is asked of them for their country whether they agree with it or not. That is what they signed up for. These liberals forget, unlike the socialist and communist countries, we have a volunteer military. They sign up for love of country.

wow, if the media had spent 1/10 of this energy vetting Obama…

Also, I’ve seen post that suggest that the military strongly supports Obama over McCain. This is the most idiotic thing I’ve heard. Every single one of my friends overseas supports McCain and the ones that I’ve asked this say that they know very few people in the military that support Obama. This seems to be McCain’s strongest demographic. So please stop spreading lies and learn the facts.

“1. WMD was factual not alledged…ask the Kurds.”
Yes in 1988(we have the receipts after all). In 2003, no WMD.
“2. Don’t recall anyone alleging Iraq was involved in the 9/11 incident, only of harboring and allowing the training the terrorist who were.”
Which was also not true. See FoxNews lied to you.
“3. After the “nth” time that Pres. Bush approached the UN for support, I don’t believe any thinking adult held such hope.”
I agree with that last line. The problem is FoxNews viewers were 4 times more likely to believe that we had world suppor tgoing in.

Palin tried to fire Wasilla’s librarian because she wouldn’t get rid of books in the library Palin said offended some residents.
Lots of things will have to be scrubbed about her and the Republicans don’t have time. They should have googled her first.
Intraders are betting her nomination will be withdrawn. Just went from 12.7 to 14.2 in the last hour.

daniel n-
Using anecdotal evidence and/or lying about your multiple friends overseas doesn’t quite measure up to responsible surveys. Troops deployed overseas have donated to Obama 6 to 1 when compared to McCain.

I’ve never heard anything like this out of Jews for Jesus in general or out of David Brickner in particular. I would want to see confirmation of the alleged comments before believing that they have been reliably represented here. I have a suspicion that we are getting a whole lot of spin rather than fact.

Does this mean that the Democrats are putting the Reverend Wright back on the table?
It sure sounds like it.
This is as tactically stupid as harping on the (now discredited) slur that Palin’s 4 month old baby is really her daughter’s child (“it’s the time-line, people!) or hypocritically yammering about Palin’s 17 year old daughter getting pregnant outside of marriage (“We are only for ‘family values’ when it suits).
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

We cannot judge Obama by what his church said while he was a member but we can judge by what her church said after she left. Just some more Liberal hypocracy!

It’s going to be a little harder now playing the Reverend Wright card after these comments come out and get scrutinized by the media.

Sarah Palin’s longtime pastor, Pastor Kalnins, said that “Jesus operated from a position of war mode.”
Anyone who so blatantly misunderstands and misrepresents the words of Jesus is scary and deluded and dangerous.
And by the way, how many thousands of civilians, including children, have been killed in the Iraq war? Many Republicans think that’s OK. But Jesus would not have been OK with that, no matter what.

They need to wait 18 months before reporting any former church to be fair

Republicans turning our country into the laughing stock of the world again? I can’t say I’m too surprised …

Doesn’t Palin support a group that is seeking Alaska’s succession from the United States? Sounds pretty anti-American to me.

Sara Palin is just the gift that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving. She’s like a broken faucet, and all you hear is drip, drip, drip here comes another controversy. This is really good stuff. Keep it coming. The media should not punk out and back off this story like they always do when they get criticized even though they are doing there jobs. Barack Obama was put through the grinder, so was Hillary Clinton. Any individual who stands to be a heartbeat away, or who stands to be the President of the United States has to have the press rummaged through their life. If this person and her husband are members of a party (the Alaskan Independence Party) that want to secede from the Union the public needs to know, if this person abuses her power of office, the public needs to know, if this person believes that the war in Iraq is a war on God’s behalf, the public needs to know. Hey Media grow a spine, stop slithering at the first sign of criticism – Your job is to expose the truth about all those who seek elected office who will have tremendous impact on the lives of all Americans. Media grow a spine and post this, unless we live in Russia now!

Sarah Palin was an EXCELLENT pick for VP, and will do an outstanding job. Thank you, leftwing nutjob media for fueling the backlash of ‘flyover’ America. We’re getting a bit of tired of being told we are ‘bitter’ and ignorant and unable to do anything—when in fact we are the heart and soul of this great nation. The tale will be told in full on November 4th.
Search on, leftwing media…but I guarantee you that you will NOT find Palin assiocating with a church or a ‘pastor’ that is an anti-american racist. No Rev. Wrights will be found in her closet.
Obama is a zero.

I watched the Palin video in which she addressed the graduating class of her church’s School of Ministry. In it Palin says several times that Alaska will be a refuge and that they all have to prepare for Alaska to be a refuge. Is Palin speaking of the Apocalypse? The “Rapture”? The time when Jesus Christ returns to the earth and the world ends? The time when Christians go to heaven and the nonbelievers go to hell? I hope someone who knows about these things would have a look at the video and tell us if this is, indeed, what she is saying.

It is time to purge this evangelical crap out of our government for good.
I wonder, these conservatives like to paint anyone they don’t like as a “Liberal”… gosh I am so sick of hearing them taunt with that.
I wonder if they realize that “Evangelical” has come to carry the same meaning that they have now attached to “Liberal”.
So. To all you Evangelicals, get a new hobby or something! We need much less of you in our government and our way of life.

It’s amazing how quickly Rove wrote this speech! He’s so busy now days with Fox news and his smear tour that finding the time must be a stretch..It must be a new mixture of the KoolAide supplement!
IF this dweeb from AK has a clue, a SINGLE clue, what shes getting herself into with the likes of the Republican smear machine she’ll run away as fast as she can…or be eaten alive and tossed aside like the rest of the non-insiders.
She has no plan, no experience in world affairs, no plan other than Newt’s on energy, no plan for education other than what Dobson tells her, no plan on health care, and no plan to re-build the country’s infrastructure. IF the republicans want to run on the issues rather than a beauty contest the game is over, but the media still seems to be dwelling on the money teet where they’re comfortable with no accountability.
If anyone looks past the smoke and mirrors and thinks of the implications these lunatics can have over our lives for generations, maybe centuries by appointing three judges on the Supreme Court to overturn most of laws from the last 50-80 years then they may think twice. But Rove is counting on everyone loosing sight of that small issue.
VERY dangerous folks…..

It is about time the real people of America are being represented! So long have we waited for “one of us” to be in office. It is just a shame it took so long. Hurray for Hockey Mom’s that still believe in God and go to church! I myself am a football/baseball mom…. and I know who I’ll be voting for this Fall.

What a creative article on Palin! It’s so hard to find a media outlet that isn’t trying and stretching so hard to discredit her. It’s obvious the media hates women, they threw Hilary under the bus now it’s Palin…..Just a though

I agree with Todd. All the reborns need to move to Alaska. Then Alaska can secede and then the republican administration will invade it for oil interests (except the administration will call it “National Security Interests”). Geez, Palin doesn’t know the difference between foreign policy and the book of revelations. Absolutely frightening.

I’ve been to an Assembly of God/Pentecostal church and I too am a Christian. I do not, however, speak in tongues, something quite common in these circles of churches. I’ve been made to feel spiritually inferior as I do not possess this particular gift.
I do believe the gifts of healing and miracles rank right up there with tongues. While I do believe in the healing power of God and have personally witnessed such, I do not believe certain men in this day and age are given these abilities. Miracles, such as raising someone from the dead, were performed by Jesus as well as at least one apostle. When was the last time someone was raised from the dead by someone possessing this particular spiritual gift?
Goto and get a clear understanding of spiritual gifts.

Matt,
It’s the book of “Revelation” not revelations. I see that many people don’t look at the fine details and intend to bad mouth others who don’t share their same beliefs. For instance, you stated that all “reborns” (I am assuming you are talking about born-again Christians) should move to Alaska. Would you say something like, “All black people should move to Africa?” I am seeing discrimination abound in the U.S. culture and it is targeting neither race nor gender. It is targeting Christians. I think that, if you would do your own research, you would find that in order for a comment to be true, it must be 100% accurate. It cannot be 90% truth and 10% lies. This culture is built on the 10% truth and 90% hearsay philosophy. You fail to investigate to find the truth, and you have instead settled for accepting 2nd hand words that have been distorted which essentially amount to a lack of ultimate truth. Yes, truth is out there and if you find it, you have found something more important than the lies that many live by. I will just give you the truth. You don’t have to look this up, but if you desire to be an intelligent creature, you can be my guest. Proverbs 14:12 And, again, if you would like to speak about the Bible or “reborns” or whatever you may fancy, research and investigate the origin not the messenger. Then you may speak about such, but as it stands many people who go by another’s knowledge and another’s opinion begin to call themselves experts. And from them comes your lack of truth. Yes, from the “so-called” experts. Hardly intelligent.