Palin 1x blessed 2b free from witchcraft

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Palin 1x blessed 2b free from witchcraft
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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 4:31am

At least the witch doctor blessed her instead of cursed her. lol.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/palin-once-blessed-to-be-free-from/n20080925013309990001

Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'

By GARANCE BURKE,AP
Posted: 2008-09-25 01:33:07

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.

The video shows Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft."

"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Palin's shoulders. "Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. ... Use her to turn this nation the other way around."

Palin filed campaign papers a few months later, in October 2005, and was elected governor the next year.

Palin does not say anything on the video and keeps her head bowed throughout the blessing. The Republican vice presidential candidate was baptized at the church but stopped attending regularly in 2002.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign declined to comment. A person who answered the phone at the Wasilla church confirmed the video was from May 2005 but declined further comment.

Palin was baptized Roman Catholic as a newborn.

Pentecostals are conservative in their reading of the Bible. Unlike most other Christians - including most evangelicals - Pentecostals believe in "baptism in the Holy Spirit." That can manifest itself through speaking in tongues, modern-day prophesy and faith healing, which includes the laying on of hands.

Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, has said Palin attends different churches and does not consider herself Pentecostal.

On a visit to the church in June 2008, Palin spoke fondly of the Kenyan pastor and told a group of young missionaries that Muthee's prayers had helped her to become governor.

"Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he's so bold," she said. "And he was praying 'Lord make a way, Lord make a way' ... He said, 'Lord make a way and let her do this next step.' And that's exactly what happened."

The Rev. Zipporah Ndiritu, who studied under Muthee in the Kiambu, Kenya-based Word of Faith Church, said the bishop is revered among evangelicals there. In a phone interview from Mombasa, Kenya, she said church doctrine focuses on ridding the world of demons - and witches.

"Even in the days of Jesus Christ, according to the Bible there were witches who were manifesting through demonic forces," she said. "You can seek from the Lord, and if you find demonic forces you cast them out."

Ndiritu said she did not know Palin.

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Registered: 08-31-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 7:30am

Here are the links to back it up:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE


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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:33am

I saw this and thought it was pretty scary that someone with these beliefs could be VP.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:17am
Yeah well that's right up there with the "fact" that dinosaurs lived 4000 years ago.



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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:30am

I thought I heard something about that, but I don't think it was verified.


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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 1:42pm
Which one, the rebuking of witch craft or that she thought that dinosaurs lived 4000 years ago? I am just surprised that she let a "witch doctor" lay hands on her. Rebuking the witch craft is good, but how did she know that he was truly a man of GOD? I was raised not to let people touch you, in the name of GOD, because you don't really know what GOD they are praying to. She must really trust that guy.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 1:44pm

I was speaking about the dinosaur comment.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 2:05pm

Clearly this is taken completely out of context. You democrats will stoop so low. Clearly when the Kenyan priest says "witchcraft" he is referring to evil. If you knew anything about African culture you would know this! This doesn't mean she believes in witchcraft.

That being said, I still find it odd that you don't have a problem with Obama's church of 20 years where the racist paster screams "G-- Damn America!" and blames the U.S. government for infecting black people with HIV and blames the government for giving black people drugs.

Why the double standard?????? It's okay for Obama to belong to a radical racist church for 20 years but it's not okay for Sarah Palin to have an African priest bless her? Typical liberal media! Typical nut case democrats for not wanting the entire story....just the one that makes a good headline.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 2:23pm

Clearly this is taken completely out of context. You democrats will stoop so low. Clearly when the Kenyan priest says "witchcraft" he is referring to evil. If you knew anything about African culture you would know this! This doesn't mean she believes in witchcraft.


That's not exactly what the article below says about this man.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 2:26pm

The truth is all around you. The media, and many Americans, when they know history tend to not pass judgment so quickly, because they know that the past is not all hoop skirts, free love, and nationalism. In context, as you say, is extremely important...remember that lie that McCain told about Barack's reference to McCain's economic policies? Instead of focusing on the inept Bush43 economic plan, McCain put it in the context of lipstick. An embarassment, even for Karl Rove. lol.

Palin can embrace witch doctors if she wants to. Just don't justify her behavior by not talking about it.

1)Rev. Wright's comments not in context

http://www.mndaily.com/2008/06/25/rev-wrights-comments-not-context

While the impact of the Klu Klux Klan has dwindled, it still has a significant presence in the United States, thus Wright's comment.

Of Wright's comments that were plastered on headlines across the nation, none sparked more outrage than when he said "G-d damn America." But this too must be put in its proper context. As I mentioned before, Wright grew up in an era in which schools, restaurants and busses were segregated. This was the law of the land. Laws that were created by an American Congress, signed into law by an American president and imposed by an American court system.

Considering this, I find it amazing that more of blacks who dealt with such degradation don't say "G-d damn America."

The media has an obligation to provide the public with credible information and put it in its proper context by revealing as many points of view as possible, but in this instance that obligation was not fulfilled. The media's failure lie in its unwillingness to reveal the point of view of black men who have dealt with racism, which would have allowed the American public to see the real newsworthy information in this story, which was our need as a country to ask ourselves: Was Rev. Wright right?

2)`The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html

The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.

—President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”

Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals

3)History of Cocaine

http://www.casapalmera.com/articles/the-history-of-cocaine/

It was actually in 1914 that cocaine came under control in the United States through the Harrison Narcotic Act, which regulated the distribution of coca, and specifically addressed cocaine in Section 6, even though cocaine is not a narcotic. In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act officially made cocaine illegal in the United States as a Schedule II drug, DEA 9041. Cocaine is a serious drug which causes serious addiction. In fact, most drug treatment centers offer help for those caught up in its cycle of addiction.

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A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

For several years during the 1980s, Webb discovered, Contra elements shuttled thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States, with the profits going toward the funding of Contra rebels attempting a counterrevolution in their Nicaraguan homeland. Even more chilling, Webb quickly realized, was that the massive drug-dealing operation had the implicit approval--and occasional outright support--of the CIA, the very organization entrusted to prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States.
Within the pages of Dark Alliance, Webb produces a massive amount of evidence that suggests that such a scenario did take place, and more disturbing evidence that the powers that be that allowed such an alliance are still determined to ruthlessly guard their secrets. Webb's research is impeccable--names, dates, places, and dollar amounts gather and mount with every page, eventually building a towering wall of evidence in support of his theories. After the original series of articles ran in the Mercury-News in late 1996, both Webb and his paper were so severely criticized by political commentators, government officials, and other members of the press that his own newspaper decided it best not to stand behind the series, in effect apologizing for the assertions and disavowing his work. Webb quit the paper in disgust in November 1997. His book serves as both a complex memoir of the time of the Contras and an indictment of the current state of America's press; Dark Alliance is as necessary and valuable as it is horrifying and grim. --Tjames Madison )))

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Registered: 09-03-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 2:54pm

As an independent voter, I cannot believe how the media will continue to explain away all of the controversies around Obama.

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