I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.
Bush Statement made during campaign visit to Amish community, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004
Palin:
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 certitude in both Palin and Bush's statements are disturbing and deja vu-ish.
Jump for articles on Palin and one on Bush and God
I am a worried about Palin's certitude. She reminds me alot of Bush. He was very certain about all his decisions because he said 'I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job'
Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
AP link: http://news.yahoo.com/...
Now we have an article from her home newspaper (amongst other stories elsewhere) that she has 'fundamentalist cred' because of those who are behind her selection as Veep.
I really do not want to have another fundamentalist-person-who-is-certain-that-God-is-guiding-their-job in the whitehouse.
MY TAKE:
When I read this below article regarding Palin and the connection her canditacy has to 'the family' I became more worried. These people are truly trying to consolidate and to change this country where we will all live by their extremist views and rules. Last week I read an article about Palin linking her electoral win to a Kenyan witchdoctor hunting priest
http://www.alternet.org/...
and now we have her home paper talking about her connection to the family. When she told Charlie Gibson in her interview that she did not blink when she answered McCain for veep I really felt a chill run down my spine. There is something about her no-blinking-certitude that gets my goat. Now we have this report and my discomfort deepens.
See article from Anchorage below.
From Anchorage Daily News
Kopp hiring proved Palin's fundamentalist street cred
ALAN BORAAS
COMMENT
(09/20/08 00:53:15)
So far Gov. Palin's handling of Alaska's Troopergate has focused on why Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan was fired. An equally important question is why Chuck Kopp was hired to replace him.
On June 30, 2008, David Brody of CBS News reported John McCain met in North Carolina with Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, director of the multimillion- dollar Samaritan's Place faith-based charitable organization. McCain was courting the religious right who, at the time, were skeptical of his social conservatism and his Christian qualifications. After the meeting Graham issued a statement praising McCain's "personal faith" and added, "We had an opportunity to pray ... for God's will to be done in this upcoming election."
Subsequent events suggest that the price of support for McCain by the fundamentalist Christian leadership would be a vice presidential candidate of their liking. Gov. Palin was a logical choice for Franklin Graham, whose ties to Alaska include a palatial, by Bush Alaska standards, second home in Port Alsworth: a community that has often served as a retreat for Christian fundamentalist leaders...
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...Palin's connection to what Jeff Sharlett has called "elite fundamentalism" is of interest now that she is an election and a heartbeat away from the presidency. Franklin Graham has been the keynote speaker for the Alaska Governor's Prayer Breakfast the past two years. According to their Web site, the organizers believe, "God directs the affairs of Man and is the ultimate authority over human events." The Alaska Governor's Prayer Breakfast is connected to the National Prayer Breakfast sponsored by The Fellowship Foundation, also known as "The Family," which espouses similar beliefs. The Family is headed by Doug Coe, one of the most influential evangelicals in Washington, D.C. Coe's group tends to operate behind the scenes organizing small cells attended by the power elite, mostly Republicans. George Bush was saved in such a cell while in Texas...
http://www.adn.com/...
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Now to Bush, God and certitude. See article below:
MY TAKE:
Remember Bush's certitude? It bothered us during his first campaign. After we saw his governing style and his constant quips about God and him being connected and his so-he-was-always-right style we realized we had a problem but it was too late. We did not succeed in getting him out of office in 2004 and so he tightened his reins on our government. Those of us who saw through him from the beginning felt helpless and frustrated. We hoped that others would see him for the imposter that he was: and they did. Nevertheless, his crazy train just kept running on and on. Even though his numbers have tanked we seem powerless to do anything in the face of his inadequate governance. He still is certain and he still is sure because God choose him. Bush and Sarah Palin are really so much alike in this way that it scares me. Sarah, is even worse than Bush. She looks right into cameras and people's faces and she lies. She is comfortable in her skin because she has God and she has been told that this is her moment (I do not know this for sure but am willing to bet on it). Nothing the media says or her critics say or her opposition say will change the fact that she is the one. The above article shows she has the backing that allows her to feel so sure. Bush had the backing that made him feel sure.
We must stop her in her tracks before she gains anymore power.
We must vote against her and her cabal and send them back from whence they came.
Published on Monday, June 30, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Did Bush Say God Told Him To Go To War?
by Ira Chernus
Did God tell George W. Bush to strike at Al-Qaeda and Iraq? God only knows. Did Bush SAY that God told him to strike? We don't know yet, for sure. But we damn well better find out. Because if George W. said it, he-and all of us-could be in for some big trouble.
Here is what we know for sure, so far. Journalist Arnon Regular wrote, in the June 26 edition of Ha'aretz (Israel's most reputable newspaper), that he has minutes of a meeting among top-level Palestinian leaders, including Prime Minister Mahmoud Abas. The minutes are apparently quite detailed, because Regular wrote a long article recounting very specific conversations. The last paragraph of the article reads:
"According to Abbas, Bush said: 'God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.'"
Before you jump to any conclusions, remember that you are reading a translation of a translation of a translation. Mahmoud Abas does not speak English. Bush does not speak Arabic. If Bush said these words, or something like them, Abas heard them from a translator. Then Abas repeated them, as he remembered them a couple of weeks later, in Arabic. Some unknown person wrote down what he thought he heard Abas say. Then Regular, or someone at Ha'aretz, translated them back into English-or perhaps first into Hebrew and then into English.
Clearly, we don't yet know what Bush said, or why. Just as clearly, the man has some explaining to do. And whatever the truth of the matter, he has serious problems.
First, let's give him some benefit of the doubt. Maybe he never said it. The quote could be fabricated-though it is hard to see who would gain by making it up. Maybe he did say God told him to make war, but he doesn't really believe it. He might have made it up for effect, trying to score some political points in the Middle East.
Whatever benefit he got should be far outweighed by the price he has to pay here at home. This is no little incident that can slip away and be forgotten. Once Bush is called to account, his problems will really begin.
If he confirms the Ha'aretz report, those of us who say God has no place in the Oval Office had better ring the alarm, as loud and long as we can. If he truly believes that he hears the voice of God, there is no telling what God might say tomorrow. This is a man who can launch the world's biggest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction-biological, chemical, and nuclear-at any moment...
http://www.commondreams.org/...