[Vision2020] SarahPalin's Church Speech: US Troops Sent To Do God's Will

[lfalen]

Ted
Thanks for sending the youtube post, however my computer is overloaded and cannot handle you tube. There have been a lot of youtube links that I would like to have seen. I guess I am going to have to get a computer with more power. I would like to thank Tom for posting This year in History, even though I can'y view them. I do however read the "This Year in History web site and take the History Channel Magazine.
Thanks again.
Roger
P.S. I have been busy all last week running the Grange Food Booth at the fair and am just now trying to get caught up  on my email.
-----Original message-----
From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:14:03 -0700
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: SarahPalin's Church Speech: US Troops Sent To Do God's Will

> Roger et. al.
> 
> For those who have missed it, here again is a link to a YouTube video of
> Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska church speech, where she discusses our leaders
> sending our troops to do "God's will:"
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k&feature=related
> -------------------------------
> 
> Roger, thanks for your response.
> 
> We sometimes don't agree.  But you have never resorted to personal insults
> to undermine my posts.
> 
> Republican Mitt Romney was governor of one of the most "liberal" and
> Democratic states, Massachusetts, with a huge budget, which he was
> instrumental in managing wisely.  He is a smart businessperson.  He is far
> more qualified than Sarah Palin as McCain's VP choice, but I wonder if he
> was even seriously considered.  I would be much happier with him as a
> Republican presidential candidate, for that matter, than McCain.  But I
> think his Mormon background was a major negative as a candidate, which it
> should not have been.  Yet witness Sarah Palin's disturbing statements about
> US troops being sent to do "God's will," which do not appear to be seriously
> negatively impacting her popularity.  As if "God" is in the business of
> waging war?  This is scary thinking...
> 
> Ted Moffett
> 
> On 9/8/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ted
> > You have some good points here. You are probably right that someone who
> > does not belong to a mainstream religion would not be elected. As for me I
> > don't care what there religion is or if they have one. It is they basic
> > philosophy and and values that I am interested in.
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> > Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:45:24 -0700
> > To: vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Separation Of Church And State Marginalized:
> > SarahPalin's Church Speech
> >
> > > Respect for the separation of church and state is not an
> > > essential criteria that McCain considered when choosing a vice
> > presidential
> > > candidate, given Sarah Palin's explicit linking of her religion and the
> > > goals of government.  In fact, given the realities of US politics at this
> > > time in history, any candidate for president or vice president must
> > > announce, and back up by action, they are a devout Christian, or they
> > will
> > > have a limited chance of election.  Witness Obama's repeated insistence
> > he
> > > is not Muslim, his emphasis on his Christian faith, and the attacks, by
> > > those wishing to undermine his campaign, that he has a Muslim background.
> > >
> > > Does anyone realistically think a Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan,
> > Atheist
> > > or Agnostic, would have a chance of election as president?  Mitt Romney
> > is
> > > far more qualified than McCain as CEO of the US, yet who doubts his
> > Mormon
> > > heritage, viewed by many Christians as questionably "Christian," was a
> > > negative?  Or that any presidential candidate would choose someone
> > > representing those other spiritual orientations listed, as a VP
> > candidate?
> > > Certainly Obama's choice of devout Catholic Joe Biden for VP supports
> > this
> > > theory, though I trust Biden supports the separation of church and state
> > > more than it appears Palin does.
> > >
> > > Religion dominates the US political landscape.  It is more prejudicial
> > for a
> > > candidate for the presidency or VP to be other than Christian as a
> > religious
> > > orientation, than it is for the candidate to be of a "racial" minority,
> > or
> > > of the female gender. * *
> > > **
> > > *I suppose this is some sort of progress!*
> > >
> > > Religion is a dominate form of prejudice in politics.  No, I am not
> > offering
> > > exhaustive research at this time to back up this claim... I have offered
> > > exhaustive research to this list on other issues, and it is ignored and
> > > mocked by those with an irrational bias.  Nonetheless, this claim appears
> > to
> > > have merit.  Why else does Karl Rove tailor Republican strategy aimed at
> > > earning the Christian evangelical vote, certainly a partial reason to
> > choose
> > > Palin?
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k&feature=related
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