Sep 10th, 2008 | Politics survey

Do you agree with Sarah Palin when she says that Attacking Iraq was a Task From God?


Sarah Palin was addressing the Wasilla Assembly of God.




51 votes, 215 views , 24 comments
 
 
Poll tags:Politics, Sarah Palin, Extremists, Religion, God, Crusades

 
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Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 15th, 2008 at 14:54 CDT

concerning politics, yes......

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 15th, 2008 at 13:12 CDT

What do you know about truth? You listen to Neal Boortz.

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 15th, 2008 at 12:09 CDT

does the truth hurt?

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 15th, 2008 at 12:08 CDT

do a little research to see who lives in that area...

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 15th, 2008 at 12:07 CDT

the same goes for obama....

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 16:00 CDT

I think you're absolutely hopeless. Go ahead on and vote for the Republicans; you'll get what you deserve. Only thing is: we'll ALL get what you deserve.

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 15:59 CDT

You don't know that. What in the world do you base that on? Blind loyalty?

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 15:58 CDT

There's plenty more about her to be "frikkin worried about."

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 10:39 CDT

if they were murdered then clearly they were associating with the wrong crowd...

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 10:45 CDT

if your media is not covering this completely then how can you make an informed decision? ..apparently the 'line' everyone is so frikkin worried about was inspired by and may actually be from an Abraham Lincoln speech....although i have not checked it out yet..

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 10:44 CDT

if you watched her last night on abc....apparently the 'line' everyone is so frikkin worried about was inspired by and may actually be from an Abraham Lincoln speech....although i have not checked it out yet..

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 10:41 CDT

there would need to be a majority of pentecostals in the congress in order to worry about what they would do to this country and any laws that would come from that majority...

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 11th, 2008 at 15:30 CDT

Congress makes law only on a unanimous decision? I'm sure that you didn't mean to say that.

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Sep 11th, 2008 at 12:34 CDT

the entire congress would need to be pentecostal to get something done that would affect all of america and the government...not gonna happen....btw did you know that moses and god are depicted all over the monuments and certain buildings in washinton dc?

Ivylibertine
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Brazil

posted Sep 11th, 2008 at 11:16 CDT

I didn't know that. Even though I read american newspapers, the brazilian press is not covering the american elections carefully.  This woman is ridiculous. I think I'll start invading people's houses and blaming God .

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Sep 10th, 2008 at 19:57 CDT

Some liberation. Did you know that Iraq has only one tenth of the christian population that it had before the war? They have all either fled or been murdered.

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 10th, 2008 at 16:45 CDT

I heard somewhere that Track and Trig are hunting terms. I've never been hunting myself, and I don't know anything about that, but it sounds right to me. "Track" is obvious from a hunting point-of-view, and "Trig" sounds like it might refer to the triangulation of one's quarry.

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Sep 10th, 2008 at 16:34 CDT

Thank you for taking the time to provide such a considered and well-thought reply. I hope that I can address your concerns (at least in part) by replacing the short clip with a longer version, called "The Sarah Palin Church Video Part One" from YouTube. Those who are interested to hear the Part Two may do so by following this link. -Ordinarily, I would say that words spoken in church have no place in the playing of politics, and should not be dragged into it. But this election has crossed that boundary already, hasn't it? I agree with you when you say, "She has a right to practice her religion, the same as anybody, so if she wants to pray, she should be allowed to." In my opinion, this is another good reason for the separation of Church and State. Politics is part of the public space; we all share in it. Religion is part of one's personal space, and I wish that all of us could keep them apart.- The founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams, advocated this separation, in the interest of protecting the church from the worldly values of politics. He described it as a “hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world.” Maybe he had a good point.

Kookie.lee
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Australia

posted Sep 10th, 2008 at 15:16 CDT

This is a calculated HALF quote.  What Palin said was "I PRAY...."  In secular terms, that would be saying "I HOPE..." or "I WISH..."  Palin did not say that this was a task from God, she said she PRAYED that it was.  Put it in context with her own son being shipped out, it would make sense that she would hope that her son could enjoy God's protection in moving within His will.  She has a right to practice her religion, the same as anybody, so if she wants to pray, she should be allowed to.  Since it is already written in history, a fact that we have gone to war, in essence she was saying "I hope that this country has been moving within the will of God".  Anybody who believes in any god would hope the same thing, that their country would move in the will of their god.  What the media is trying to do is smear Palin, and attach her to Bush's plan in this war, which he attributed to God.  By leaving out part of the truth, the media has effectively convinced some of the public that Palin agrees wholeheartedly with Bush's war.  Those who want change, who do not want war and hate Bush for it, could now be convinced easily that voting for McCain and Palin only adds more years of the same thing as Bush.  It's a deliberate manipulation done by the media, a common practice in the reporting of so-called 'unbiased news'.  After all, they didn't lie, did they?  They just reported the 'relevent' words, right?  Who cares about the whole statement, the actual truth, as long as the report curved in their favour.  And they didn't even have to lie to do it, right?  They just didn't report the WHOLE truth.  Sound familiar?  The media does this on a multitude of subjects, not just political campaigns.  Children do it when reporting events to parents that the parents didn't actually witness.  It's child's play.  What voters should do is study the facts, ALL of them, from the source (such as watching the video of Palin on Youtube), and not assume that the news contains the whole truth.  They obviously don't.

Mscrowe
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Florida, United States

posted Sep 10th, 2008 at 12:59 CDT

We liberated Iraq.

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