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The pastor who clashed with Palin

Baptist minister Howard Bess, who wrote a book Palin wanted banned and who fought her on abortion and gay rights, says the country should fear her election.

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  • Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:51 PM

    Keep telling the truth

    Amen, Rev. Bess. Please keep telling the country the truth!

    Sarah Palin is the Theocrat that the framers of the Constitution worked so hard to thwart. Let's not let them down by voting her into the VP office.

    She is not a Protestant nor a regular Evangelical. She is a Pentecostal! She speaks in tongues and believes Armageddon will occur within her lifetime. Sounds like she's ready to get it started. Her pastor says Alaska will be a refuge state for hundreds of thousands of their type when the rest of the world is engulfed in flame.

    If you love your children and you love living on this beautiful green planet, please vote for Barack Obama.

    She speaks in unitelligible tongues -- all the Wasilla Pentecostals do as they believe that is the first sign of receiving the Holy Spirit.

    But she didn't have a clue what The Bush Doctrine was. The "we can do anything to anyone at anytime that we think might be a threat to us" statement of arrogance from the most ignorant, autocratic administration we've had in the US, at least in modern times.

    How could she not know the fundamental theme of the man her political career has been modeled after?

    Does she not pay any attention to national politics whatsoever?

    As mayor and governor, Mrs. Palin has shown ample evidence she will take W's arrogance, abuse of office, and prideful ignorance to new extremes.

    Now that W. has laid the groundwork by coopting the power of the other two branches (by stacking the federal courts and the normally non-political attorney posts in the Justice Dept. with under-qualified ideological hacks, and by cowering the Congress, just like he's cowered the news media, all is ready for Sarah Palin to come in and implement her theocratic ideas cooked up in a complete vacuum of actual law.

    Given how she wrested away the governor's chair from fellow Republican Frank Murkowski, I would like to make a market on how long it would take her to have John McCain declared unfit for office, if something like Alzheimer's crops up.

    Sincerely,

    The American Way '62

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