ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it “God’s will.”
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”
The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee explains how Sarah Palin will move women everywhere to vote Republican this year: “John McCain chose a woman who is almost completely unprepared for the job, and who disagrees with me on every core value I believe in, but I will be voting McCain in November because…” (embedded below)
The McCain campaign has done a clever job of minimizing coverage of Obama’s Thursday night convention speech with their
ludicrouspickofSarahPalin as his running mate.
The distraction doesn’t change the political savvy, structural sophistication, rhetorical power, historical context, or flawless delivery of the speech (embedded below.)
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