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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
That's what Sarah Palin called the war in Iraq. Snippets of the Alaska governor's speeches are emerging on YouTube. She's scheduled to address the Republican National convention in St. Paul tonight.

In a speech to her Assembly of God church, Gov. Sarah Palin called the war in Iraq "a task that is from God...There is a plan and that's God's plans."

The talk shows Palin speaking without notes. In addition to having a habit of dropping her "g's" in speaking, the presumptive vice presidential nominee has a casual, anecdotal speaking style.

"You guys are all a bunch of cool-looking Christians," she tells the youth congregation. "People are going to be interested in Jesus because of the way you look."



Posted by Karen Heller @ 4:12 PM  Permalink | 5 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:46 PM, 09/03/2008
    Gov. Palin: This is GOD speaking. Stop using my name for your selfish motives, or I what I did to Jonah will seem like a vacation compared to what I will do to you. Hey, it's worth a shot - she may just be crazy enough to believe it.
    AHiredGun
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:51 PM, 09/03/2008
    oh gauwd. why? why? hasn't her affiliation with Alaska's Independent Party be enough?
    tulipwalk
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:52 PM, 09/03/2008
    Whats the big deal? She was speaking to church goers in a CHURCH.
    Leron
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:53 PM, 09/08/2008
    Ummm, if you actually watch the video, Palin doesn't actually claim that the plan in Iraq is God's plan. What she actually said was: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan." Asking people to pray that there is a plan in Iraq and that that plan is the same as God's plan is VERY different than claiming that there is a plan in Iraq and claiming that that plan is God's plan. If I ask people to pray for world peace, that's vastly different than my claiming that there IS world peace.
    rbernard80


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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.