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I was extremely discouraged by this article. I am a 25 year old supporter of Barrack Obama and I am intensely skeptical about Sarah Palin. However I found little insight or value in this article.
For the author to take Palin's comments and twist them into a claim that she has a "deterministic view of God's will" was unfair. It seems obvious to me that she was saying she hoped that what political leaders were doing aligned with "God's will" but never implied that leaders were, or should be, given any sort of divine guidance.
As for the laundry list of the Assembly of God's strange beliefs, I would imagine one could come up with a similar list about any church any of the candidates belong to.
I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt in regards to Rev. Wright's comments because I realize that attending a church does not imply a parishioners belief in or support of everything which is said and done there. Why should Palin be given any less benefit of the doubt?
I realize she has opened herself up to some degree scrutiny because she has not come forward more openly to the media, but there are plenty of good ways to illustrate the fact that she would be a very disconcerting presence in the Oval Office without resorting to the kind of innuendo and guilt by association tactics practiced by less reputable media outlets than this one.
