Bill Greenwood wrote:
Since you guys wrote all the stuff about the candidate, I'll add a few that were pretty funny, if they weren't so sad.
This is true, not even made up, as I saw the video: Cindy McCain was being interviewed and asked about the new 44 yr old v p candidate not having any national or international experience,. Cindy answered with a straight face, "That since Alaska was our closest state to Russia, that Gov. Palin had international experience". A comedian picked up on this statement and said since Mt. McKinley in Alaska is the highest US point, then Palin must also have outer space experience.
On the more serious side, according to today's paper, Palin stood up in her very conservative church and told the people that God sent us to invade Iraq, also that God wanted Alaska to build a big $40 billion pipeline for the natural gas companies. The video of this was on the church website, but was taken down in the last few days when it came out in public.
Hey Bill-
I usually try to stay out of these political arguments...but here is what she really said. Vastly different than what you have reported:
"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
She wasn't saying that is was God's plan, she was saying that the congregants need to be praying that our national leaders would make decisions within God's plan.
Watch the speech, you can find it on the internet. It is different than what is being portrayed in the print media.