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Palin Prayed Over: Ooooh, Scaaary

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:16:01 AM
With the aghast tone of this AP report, "Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'", the media once again displays its total disdain for Christianity.  It doesn't even seem to have an inkling that to most Christians, and even many non-Christian Americans, the content of this prayer is not all that odd, much less alarming. 
 
The odd thing is that Ms. Palin was not even the one doing the praying, but was prayed over by a guest pastor, Bishop Thomas Muthee, someone from a different culture, and a man "of color".  Usually the left falls all over itself for such a spiritual person.  Desmond Tutu could perhaps have given this prayer.
 
While Pastor Muthee's Word of Faith church is thought by some Christian scholars to be "outside the pale" of Christian orthodoxy, praying for protection from satan (evil) and praying for financial support for a mission in life, having fellow congregants lay their hands on you, is commonplace and seems rather innoucuous. 
 
In trying to paint Palin as scary because of this prayer, the left only points the other three fingers back at itself, for Barack Obama's spiritual mentors are far outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy, and his poloitical philoshophy mentors, mostly Marxists, are far and away outside of the the Founder's beliefs, American beliefs. 
 
Now for the kicker.  Bishop Muthee is from Kenya.  I wonder if he knows Barack Obama's brother?
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Obama: Have Email, Will Travel

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:48:53 AM
Here's Jonah Glodberg on Obama's ad that claims McCain shouldn't be President because he doesn't know how to send an email:
 
"... Besides, by this logic, Obama is even less qualified to be commander in chief because, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane or led men during wartime."
 
I guess Obama's come-back could be that when he (small H) is President, there won't be any wars - but he'll be sending emails galore and typing like crazy on his internet blog (www.blahblahblah,com).
 
Hmmm.  I wonder if Sarah Palin ever sent an email to a moose asking him to turn himself in ...
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Palin is a Real Woman, Doniger is Not a Real Professor

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:21:39 AM
Kathryn Jean Lopez, at National Review Online's The Corner blog posted this this morning.
"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."   
 
The rabid reaction to Sarah Palin just got worse: This time, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School, writes that Sarah Palin is not really a woman"
That Ms. Doniger is a "professor" of "the history of religion" is not only pathetic but ironic.
 
Apparently the professor professes in public that she doesn't appreciate it when anyone professes anything about religion other than in private.
 
If that happened I guess she'd eventually be out of a job.
 
In support of that making that happen, I'll volunteer to keep my mouth shut for awhile (in private).  

Sort of like Ted Kennedy, about whose religious beliefs it's been said, "they were so private, even he didn't know about them".
 
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise." - Orlando Gibbons
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Lipstick on Pigs in the Animal Farm

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:54:10 AM
The morning drive-time radio team was engaging callers this morning in a discussion of whether Obama’s recent “lipstick on a pig” comment was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin or merely a description of the GOP’s policies.

The audience was split on the answer but leaned slightly to the sense that Obama knew what he was doing, which is my take.

While Obama’s campaign has shown much stupidity of late, they can’t be accused of not being clever and devious. Obama and his staff knew perfectly well that in using this well-known phrase they were getting a two-fer. They could seem to be attacking McCain’s policies yet at the same time get a dig in on the bottom of the ticket, all the while knowing that the commomness of the expression lent them plausible deniability of the latter.
The evidence of Obama’s intent can be seen in his delivery of the line. First, he verbally stumbled and hesitated before making the quip.  Second, rather than maintaining eye contact with his audience during the utterance, he looked down. Thirdly, and most telling, was his full stop after the line, the rhetorical trick of someone whose script says “pause for laughter” – the laughter they knew would come.

The ironic thing is that, even if Obama was only speaking to his opponents’ policies, it’s yet another example of the Democrat trick, perfected by Bill Clinton, of the pot calling the kettle black.

Essentially, Obama’s rhetoric amounts to putting the lipstick of caring and compassion on the tired old failed, and dangerous, pig of socialism.

“All animals are equal , but some animals are more equal than others.” – a proclamation from the pigs on the Animal Farm
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