In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will
By KIRK JOHNSON and KIM SEVERSON
September 5, 2008
WASILLA, Alaska — Shortly after taking office as governor in 2006, Sarah Palin sent an e-mail message to Paul E. Riley, her former pastor in the Assembly of God Church, which her family began attending when she was a youth. She needed spiritual advice in how to do her new job, said Mr. Riley, who is 78 and retired from the church.
“She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,” Mr. Riley said.
He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king’s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.
Mr. Riley said he thought Ms. Palin had lived out the advice as governor, and would now do so again as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee. the rest
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The rolling collapse of the Obama campaign is at least in part owed to the wide-and-getting-wider recognition that the MSM's [mainstream media] Emperor has no clothes and that the MSM has been covering for him. The giant MSM snarl unleashed at the wildly popular Sarah Palin not only rallied millions to her side, it also exposed the virulent antipathy towards middle America on the part of many in the MSM and the agenda journalism of the rest. Bill Kristol writes today that Sarah Palin is a "Wal-Mart Mom." (HT: RobinsonandLong.com) The huge anger displayed towards her from Manhattan-Beltway media elites has been a great lesson for all Americans on the contempt in which "Wal-Mart Moms" are held by MSM and Democratic Party elites. This contempt won't be forgotten.
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