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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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  • Howard Bess clashed with Palin.....

    Howard Bess should be afraid...... but not of Sarah Palin. Between the six and seventh trumphets Howard Bess will get a direct look a God's judgement regarding his perverse doctrine........ You can bet if Sarah Palin was attacked by Bess it's a sure bet she's gain God's favor and not the chuch alone. As a Hilliary supporter I am angered by the Osama campaigns continual attacks and belittling of career women! As a voter in one of your major swing states I hope I cast the deciding vote for the Palin McCain ticket!

  • Can't

    Don't drink the kool aid.

    -- bugaboo

    We can't. You drank it all already.

    By the way, look at some letters I posted earlier today to see who was up to his asshole in contributions from some of our failing financial institutions.

    I won't say his name, but his initials are B.O.

  • Thanks for Interviewing this Political Activist

    He even admits:

    The retired minister moved to the Mat-Su Valley with his wife, Darlene, in 1987, after his outspoken defense of gay rights at Baptist churches in the Santa Barbara, Calif., area and Anchorage landed him in trouble with church officials.

    So he was kicked out of his church and exported his rdaical theology to Alaska. Palin stood fast against this nut.

  • @ulyssesmsu

    Barack Obama has a 20-year on-going close friendship with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist who wants to make America into a marxist gulag, but Howard Bess is not afraid of that.

    Of course he's not afraid of that. No one sane is. That's because you just made up the whole "20 year ongoing close" part, as well as the bit about making American into a marxist gulag. Seriously, don't you have enough confidence in your own opinion that you can keep from making things up to defend it?

    But according to Howard Bess, it is Sarah Palin we should fear, because she tried to warn her fellow Alaskans about his book.

    Wrong, thanks for playing. No, the correct answer was not "she tried to warn people about her book," but rather "she tried to ban the book to prevent anyone from ever knowing about it." Big difference, and unfortunately our judges won't accept your answer. Vanna will give you your dunce cap to wear for the rest of the show.

  • And This is Important Compared to the Economy?

    Obama is out down-talking the economy, hoping to totally destroy consumer confidence with doom and gloom predictions, and you're talking about religion?!?!?!

    Obama wants to spend us into oblivion, with no plan to rein in ever-increasing Entitlement programs, and you're sipping java with a guy who ran away from his own congregation in Santa Barbara?

    Obama hangs out with home-grown terrorists, racist ranters in his own church, and the Hollywood elites, and you're reporting about a guy who claims homosexuals are "healers" of the church (have these healers cured AIDS, yet? Just wondering...Karma is a female dog, eh)....

  • Not really a clash, though, kind of

    a little tiny and very friendly disagreement. I mean, clash would at least be confrontational. Maybe some jail time.

  • Book banning list didn't happen

    That story has been debunked. Palin never tried to ban any books. These types of articles and the liberal barrage against Palin is not helping Obama. Keep up the good work.

  • @paulpsd7

    That's because you just made up the whole "20 year ongoing close" part [about William Ayers]

    Wrong, thanks for playing.

    First, Obama has a lot to fear about his connection to Ayers. That's why he lied during one of the primary debates when asked about Ayers and responsed, "He just a guy in the neighborhood."

    First, Obama launched his presidential exploration committee in Ayers' living room. And in fact, Obama and Ayers' relationship goes back to the mid-'80s, when they worked on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the only executive experience Obama has.

    And what a cock-up it was. It was supposedly a charitable organization that took grants from the Annenberg Fund to be used to improve Chicago schools. In reality, it funneled millions to Ayers' pet causes while turning down grants to genuine educational organizations such as the Chicago Algebra Connection. In the end, Chicago schools scores actually declined.

    But if it was innocuous, why did Obama go to such great lengths to keep it suppresed, and why did he lie in the debate? The records for the Annenberg Challenge were stored at University of Chicago, which refused to release them until sued by Stanley Kurtz. When a Chicago radio station had Kurtz on to talk about what he had found thus far (only a few days into researching thousands of files), the Obama campaign sent an e-mail blast to all its supporters to try to shout down Kurtz and the radio station. (An Obama rep was also invited to be on the show, but they declined, citing logistics, even though Obama's Chicago headquarters is a mere few blocks from the radio station.) The brown shirt tactics were pathetic, people all reading from the same script as they deluged the radio station to try to silence it.

    Why? What's in those records? Why is the University of Chicago (a public institution, by the way) trying to protect Obama?

    There's way more here, and when Kurtz gets more time to go through the files, the shit will truly hit the fan--just in time for election day.

    Read and weep:

    http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM

    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-ayers-and-the-annenberg-challenge-cover-up/

    http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/09/annenberg-gate-university-tipped-off.html

    And read the many fact-filled links on the latter page, full of dirt on Obama's lying and stonewalling on this. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and Obama is trying like mad to hide the smoke.

  • A couple answers to trolls

    1. Sarah did inquire into banning books. Just that www list was bogus, not the inquiry. And then Sarah fired the librarian, but the town gave her back her job the next day.

    2. This guy Ayers was an American "terrorist" when Barack was a little kid. Barack met him decades later, in a different world.

  • "Evangelical" vs "Fundamentalist"

    As a progressive follower of Jesus, I cringe when I see the word "evangelical" used without qualification to characterize reactionary fundamentalists like Sarah Palin and the members of the Wasilla Assembly of God. Referring to them simply as "evangelicals" is like referring to neocon warmongers simply as "Republicans". The term "evangelical" covers a very broad assortment of Christian believers united only by a robust faith in Jesus Christ. Many of us, however, hear in the words of Jesus a call to tolerance, compassion, and humility that issue in beliefs toward gays, the poor, and the exercise of military force that are at polar opposites with Palin and her fellow ideologues (think former Salon contributor Annie Lamott!!), who see the world in the easy-to-process black and white of a simplistic theology based on a quirky, literal reading of the Bible.

    So please get it straight, Salon -- evangelicals are not necessarily fundamentalists! You indiscriminately tar the entire group -- which includes a lot of avid Salon readers -- with the same brush when you use the more inclusive term to refer only to its most extreme members.

  • @timbuktom

    More ignorance on parade. First, the "I was 8 years old when he committed these acts" defense is pathetic, since Ayers in unrepentant. In a case of colossal poor timing, an interview with Ayers in the NY Times that ran on 9/11/01 had him saying about bombing the Pentagon and Capitol Building, "I regret that we didn't do more."

    Second, that's not even the main issue. The main issue is the scam he and Ayers ran on the Annenberg Foundation. (See all the links in my previous post.)

    There must be something extremely damaging there, or else Obama wouldn't be lying about it and trying so hard to suppress the story.

    By the way, imagine if supporters of a Republican candidate had tried to shut down a radio talk show. We'd still be reading about it. MSM coverage of Obama's brown shirt tactics? A small story in the Chicago Tribune.

  • Question for Palin

    Ask for her views on the End Times.

  • Scary

    She is scary and she is a liar to. Very scary indeed. www.privacy.cz.tc

  • Is Sarah Palin another G W Bush, but even worse?

    G W Bush, as an exceedingly ignorant man, but a clever politician, saw the evangelical Christians as a means to the end of obtaining the governorship of Texas, and then the White House. Bush, however, seems to have pretended to be a believer.

    Sarah Palin, every bit as ignorant about the wider world of international affairs, diplomacy, etc., as was Bush, may be sincere in her fundamentalist Christian beliefs. If this be the case, she would be a menace in the White House. Remember, the Reverend Hagee pushes hard for war with Iran, to help to bring forward the day of Armageddon! Is Palin an End Believer?

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