Governpr Palin Emerging Background/News
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I was curious about Governor Palin, and was hoping to find out more about her over the coming weeks. I read this morning that she was a long time Pentacostal and then also saw this article that may, unfortunately, raise some uncomfortable issues -
The Alaska governor addressed parishioners at Wasilla's Assembly of God Church in June and likened the war to a messianic mission.
Ed Kalnins - the church's senior pastor since 1999 - has preached that critics of President Bush will go directly to hell. Although the church took its Web site down yesterday, Kalnins' sermons are widely available on Google video.
During the 2004 election, Kalnins - who originally hails from New Jersey - praised Bush, and offered this message:
"I'm not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for [John Kerry], I question your salvation. I'm sorry."
In another eyebrow-raising development, voter records revealed that Palin's husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce state's-rights group that has advocated for secession from the nation.
New York Post â€" 9/6/2008
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09032008/news/nationalnews/church_prayer_for_iraq_war_127206.htm
The Alaska governor addressed parishioners at Wasilla's Assembly of God Church in June and likened the war to a messianic mission.
Ed Kalnins - the church's senior pastor since 1999 - has preached that critics of President Bush will go directly to hell. Although the church took its Web site down yesterday, Kalnins' sermons are widely available on Google video.
During the 2004 election, Kalnins - who originally hails from New Jersey - praised Bush, and offered this message:
"I'm not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for [John Kerry], I question your salvation. I'm sorry."
In another eyebrow-raising development, voter records revealed that Palin's husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce state's-rights group that has advocated for secession from the nation.
New York Post â€" 9/6/2008
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09032008/news/nationalnews/church_prayer_for_iraq_war_127206.htm
from the Rapture to believing that Jews NEED to be converted.
That the taking over of other nations countries and killing thier people is a messianic mission.
I WANT RELIGION OF ANY KIND OUT OF POLITICS
But since we seem to be stuck with hiring the religious---could we maybe hire the ones who are not at the extreme ends of it?
btw----THEY ALSO PREACH THAT YOU ARE NOT TO QUESTION YOUR LEADERS----EVER
It is so important to them, that it is on their front page.
Pillars of society such as Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine secretly followed what today would be seen as occult and mystical beliefs and a few of our founding fathers believed we are descendants of aliens. "In God We Trust" didn't appear on our money until the 1950's during a Republican Presidents term.
In a democracy we must always question our leaders and then vote them out of office if they have not lived up to expectations. Otherwise we have a Theological Monarchy or worse...
This is unimportant. What is important is how Sarah Palin has conducted herself while in public office (and the few years in between, after she lost her bid to become Lt Governor of Alaska).
As a middle aged woman from the rural Midwest who juggled family and career, facing discrimination along the way, I can identify with Sarah Palin. And I want to like her. But the more I find out about her, the more difficult this is.
It's not about her daughter's pregnancy, or wondering if the boy she is supposedly going to marry is going to be able to handle the responsibility. I don't know anything about the daughter or her boyfriend, and frankly, don't want to. Young people fall in love and face similar challenges across America every day.
It's not about her husband's political beliefs. As stated before, different perspectives and party memberships between married couples is not that uncommon.
It's not about Sarah Palin's youth, her beauty, her education, her ambitions as a starry-eyed student. It's not about her penchant for hunting - that's how she was raised. It's not about her being a small-town girl. Harry Truman came from Independence, MO (a place that I know well), he never graduated from college. He was in a similar position to Palin. Thrown into the national spotlight, first in line to the presidency when everybody knew Roosevelt suffered from frail health.
What is the difference between Palin and Truman?
My mother knew Harry Truman before he was Vice President. Truman could talk tough, but he didn't have a mean bone in his body. He was neither petty nor vindictive. He didn't set out to destroy anyone who disagreed with him. He was ambitious - but not ruthlessly so.
I have a collection of documents now on Sarah Palin. I did not spend any more time researching her than I have any other person running for VP or President now or in the past. But what I have learned is deeply disturbing. Unlike Truman, she has been - and continued to be as recently as last year - vengeful. Anyone who disagrees with her is her bitter enemy. She extracts revenge in ways that I have rarely seen, but the closest analogy I can come up with is the outing of Valerie Plame by the Bush administration. Joe Wilson told the truth to the American people, and for his trouble his wife - another successful working mother - lost her career. Joe Wilson - the man who bodily threw himself between Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Embassy employees to protect them. A man whose bravery and patriotism is beyond reproach. They couldn't touch him, so they attacked his family.
And there is the other analogy. I don't believe in attacking Sarah Palin's family - nor John McCain's, nor Barack Obama's nor Joe Biden's. The McCain family suffered the most revolting assaults by the same people McCain now employs to help him attack his opponents. And now Sarah Palin employs them, too.
That in itself speaks volumes. That isn't about love of family or country - that is about blind, relentless personal ambition. And it smacks of total hypocricy to claim otherwise.