Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'

[RamboLiberal]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle/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.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/24/politics/p212746D88.DTL

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Nice to see it hit the AP - but you know if this was Obama they'd be playing this 24/7 on Faux & CNN.

[billyoc]

1. Must've worked, no witches I know would give her the time of day.

:hi:

[tavalon]

13. Damn straight! I want no part of that woman.

I did pray that McCain would keep her on the campaign but I was sneaky, I prayed to the Christian God rather than to the Goddess - I knew she would kick my ass for being such a petty vindictive brat. But having a pantheon means you can ask the Sky Daddy when you know you won't get what you want from the Earth Mommy!:evilgrin:

[Daemonaquila]

23. I guess they freed her from Druids too...

Maybe we could get him to be even a bit more "free-range" with his next blessing, so that even the fundies won't want to touch her?

[PatGund]

32. Alas, I know one.....

"PaganPower" over in PUMAland is very ga-ga for Palin. Don't ask me why.

Most of my fellow Pagans I know can't stand McCain/Palin. Even those that voted for him in 2000.

[Critters2]

34. They must've prayed to keep UCCs away, too.

Where's the youtube of that?

[patomime]

2. free from witchcraft...

now that's a laugh. :sarcasm:

[Matariki]

3. Well they can kiss *this* witch's ass.

Can't get their God to keep all her many LIES hidden, can they?

[RamboLiberal]

4. Daily KOS has hit something else this preacher said

with Palin there that should be highlighted and shown - there would go most of the Jewish vote for McCain if this was out.

Blumenthal recently visited to the church to see Muthee's latest appearance there. A fascinating read. Be sure to check it out.

But again, that's not what's brought me here.

It's this passage, starting at 1:20 in the video:

The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/171613/532/36/609149

[Snazzy]

6. "you know"

as in what the racist or in this case borderline anti-semite always says, "you know, those people." Wink.

Campaigning and money grubbing from the pulpit, nearly slipping down the slope of overtly saying what he really believes, instead of just telegraphing his ugly though typical subtext. Oh this is the base alright.

[jobycom]

5. Well, they certainly turned this nation around, that's for sure.

From where we were when Clinton left office to where we are now is 180 degrees and a thousand miles down the road to Hell. So maybe the blessing is to blame.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Which(itch)craft? Does the doe-eyed creature from Alaska believe in NON-CHRISTIAN VALUES?

She's a freak.

One thing bothers me. The alignment of the sound with the video is crap.

Could be rovian.

[Sin]

8. O I say we put her to the Test..

The question is she made of wood :)

[Nostradammit]

9. Build a bridge out of her!

She's a witch! Burn her!!!

[bushmeister0]

31. She turned me into a Newt!

I got better . . .

[RBInMaine]

10. SHE'S A FANATICAL NUTJOB UNFIT TO SERVE IN HIGH OFFICE !!

[fascisthunter]

27. I'll second that

[silverojo]

11. She wouldn't know real witchcraft if it bit her on the ass

Shout out to my fellow witches, Wiccans, pagans, and other nature religion types on this board!

[ozymandius]

12. The pastor would have been wiser to bless against abject idiocy.

Something tells me that would have failed.

[cstanleytech]

19. Well thats because in this case its in the "jeans" lol

[santamargarita]

14. Didn't Work!

~

[freeplessinseattle]

15. maybe that's why she's afraid of cats?

ha-sure wish she'd kept her campaign stop here, my black kitty could have made her pee her pantyhose!

[UK populist]

16. Ignore it It has been altered. The audio is wrong

This is one of the videos that was removed from the assembly of god's website and now surprisingly it has re-appeared just when everything is crashing around Mccain. Tis is a fake to garner sympathy for the Palin/mccain ticket and a distraction.

[Political Tiger]

18. Video Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4HIc-yfgM&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-witch-hunter-anoints_b_128805.html

(Palin appears after about 7:30)

[SOS]

26. If "altered", why no denial from Palin?

nt

[Political Tiger]

17. Too bad she wasn't blessed to be free from 'bitchcraft'

I'm just saying... }(

[HopeHoops]

20. It didn't work - she's under the spell of GOP power and greed.

[Maestro]

30. Exactly!

I certainly do not want this medieval woman sitting in the VP seat. She's nucking futs!

[wickerwoman]

21. Come on... it's not like she annoints herself with Crisco.

The bar for batshit crazy has been raised a bit in the past eight years.

[MadinMo]

22. Who knew they have witches in Alaska.....

[Liberalynn]

25. The ice caps aren't the only things that are melting.

;)

Caribou Barbie is the Wicked Witch of the North.

No offense to Wiccan's meant. Only a Wizard of Oz reference.

[Liberalynn]

24. Doesn't that make Palin a Demon?

I mean the Charmed ones only cursed Demons right? ;) :rofl:

By the way Sarah most Wiccans believe in "harm to none"

[Sequoia]

28. I bet she lets her kids go treat or treating on Halloween.

[On the Road]

29. She's Certainly Lost the Wiccan Vote Now

[crossroads]

33. She never had it in the first place! nt

[struggle4progress]

35. See? She's NOT a bridge to nowhere! She's a bridge to the sixteenth century.

[XemaSab]

36. What a freak!

:o