sarah palin on gods mission?

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Palin affair claim, 'witchcraft' blessing dog McCain camp

SENATOR John McCain's campaign has threatened legal action against The National Enquirer newspaper for running a story about his running mate, Sarah Palin, alleging she had an affair with her husband's business partner.

"The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of The National Enquirer insinuating that Governor Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie," said McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt. "The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it.

"Legal action will be considered with regard to this disgraceful smear."

The allegation would normally be dismissed by political observers as the random musings of a supermarket tabloid except that the paper has built up a reservoir of legitimacy following its earlier reporting on the John Edwards affair.

According to the paper, three members of the man's family, including one by sworn affidavit, have claimed Mrs Palin had an affair with husband Todd's former business partner, Brad Hanson. Mr Hanson owned a snowmobile dealership with her husband, who terminated the partnership after he heard stories about the allegations in 1996. This was around the time Mrs Palin was mayor of Wasilla.

The controversial choice for Republican vice-president is also the subject of a grainy YouTube video showing her being blessed in her home-town church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.

The video shows Mrs Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft".

"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Bishop Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Mrs Palin's shoulders. "Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus … Use her to turn this nation the other way around."

Mrs Palin filed campaign papers a few months later, in October 2005, and was elected governor the next year. She does not say anything on the video and keeps her head bowed throughout the blessing. The Republican vice-presidential candidate was baptised at the church, but stopped attending regularly in 2002. A spokesman for the McCain campaign declined to comment.

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Misgivings about Palin multiply before TV debate

CONSERVATIVE commentators are openly expressing doubts about the candidacy of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin following another terrible television interview.

Mrs Palin's third-only TV interview with CBS's Katie Couric was widely panned as a disaster and would have made front-page news but for the financial meltdown.

National Review editor Rich Lowry called the performance "dreadful". MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Mrs Palin "just seems out of her league".

"I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States," columnist David Frum said. And referring to George Bush snr's oft-ridiculed vice-president, he added: "Dan Quayle never in his life has performed as badly as Sarah Palin in the last month."

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker went further by calling on Mrs Palin to quit, warning that the Alaskan Governor could cost running mate John McCain the campaign. "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself," Parker wrote.

Speculation is growing that the McCain camp will ensure that the wedding of Mrs Palin's 17-year-old pregnant daughter, Bristol, to her high school boyfriend, Levi, takes place in the next month — a move that would garner enormous television interest and divert from the campaign's woes.

Amid concerns that she has lost her confidence in the week of the vice-presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden, Mrs Palin is to spend the next 2½ days at "debate camp" at Senator McCain's ranch at Sedona, Arizona.

The two top campaign advisers, Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, are being sent to Sedona to coach the candidate. And Mrs Palin will be accompanied by her family in a bid to get her more relaxed and back on track for her first national debate.

The debate in St Louis, Missouri, on Friday (Melbourne time) will pit two politicians with very different styles and expertise.

Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, a foreign policy expert who has twice run for president, is a veteran of the Senate and of presidential debates. But he is sometimes too loquacious and loose with his facts.

Mrs Palin's experience is limited to gubernatorial debates in Alaska.

The McCain camp is still insisting she is a big asset, but according to the Wall Street Journal, there is real anxiety in the campaign that Mrs Palin has been "over-prepared", leading to bouts of confusion and looking scripted at others.

In the Couric interview, Mrs Palin again boasted that Alaska's proximity to Russia and Canada amounted to relevant foreign affairs experience and her rambling answer was replayed over and over on networks and the web.

"Well, it certainly does," Mrs Palin said, "because our, our next-door neighbours are foreign countries, they're in the state that I am the executive of."

Couric asked the Governor if she had ever been involved in negotiations, for example, with her Russian neighbours.

"We have trade missions back and forth," Mrs Palin said. "We, we do — it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."

There are claims that CBS has still more of the interview that it has not yet aired, which could prove just as embarrassing.

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The video shows Mrs Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft".

Time to roll back the American clock by a thousand years, eh? Before you know they'll be burning immigrants as "Inka witches".

Matt Damon telling it like it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk

man what is it with the US and electing brain dead whackos to the presidential post...

i find it staggering and scary that after 8 years of Bush Jnr you guys are contemplating electing such politicians...

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She's hot. Thats all I need to know!

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QUOTE (Georgios @ October 10, 2008 12:39 pm)

She's hot. Thats all I need to know!

She's hot indeed. greekturkish/beerchug.gif

Palin seems hot when you compare her with other well-know US politicians

Condoleezza Rice
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Hilary Clinton
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Madeleine Albright
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I still think Palin is a hick.

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QUOTE (katastrof @ October 20, 2008 09:51 am)

lol hillbillies

this same fear mongering crowd reminds me of our own chp voters and their "secret agenda" theories on akp greekturkish/laugh.gif

grain of salt