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The author of the piece is a conservative Jew who is taking CNN to task for their attempt to equate Palin’s church (where the congregation prays for the protection of our soldiers) with Obama’s (God d*&%m America).

The Obama campaign is in a death spiral. 30 lawyers and all they can come up with is Palin spent $43,000 in travel and expenses for her family over 2 years, boy there is a hugh scandal (not), trying to compare her pastor to Wright (lets see, I think that there are about 20 blacks in Alaska so Palin’s pastors black liberation theology will play real well), and attacking her bridge to no where veto, when one of her democratic opponents says she is right is stupid. The 2 million she got for the plane she sold on Ebay less the cost of the plane's up keep more than compensates. I can not believe a major, well funded campaign for president could be so off message, off stride and out of step. If picking Palin for VP can screw up Obama’s great executive experience to this extent what would Putin do to Obama???

CNN trying to make Palin's church sound like Wright's? Click on the text below for the transcript.

Palin's current church, the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church, is now also under the microscope. On August 17, just days before Palin was asked to run for vice president, the founder of Jews for Jesus, David Brickner, told worshipers, terrorist attacks on Israel were God's judgment of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.

BRICKNER: Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. When Palestinians from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people, judgment, you can't miss it.

KAYE: Palin's new pastor, Larry Kroon, agreed with Brickner's views.

Would David Brickner be invited to speak here again after making those comments?

LARRY KROON, PASTOR, WASILLA BIBLE CHURCH: Yes.

KAYE: Yes?

KROON: Yes. He would be.

KAYE: The McCain campaign has confirmed Palin was in attendance for that sermon, but Palin's spokeswoman told me Brickner's comments are not a reflection of her views.

STAPLETON: I know that the governor without a doubt is pro- Israel.

KAYE: Pastor Larry Kroon wouldn't comment on Palin's beliefs.

How do you think a person's faith influences them or shapes them and their decisions?

KROON: You're talking to a real core aspect of who they are and how they see things, and they will, I think -- I think that's part of how they'll make decisions and react.

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COOPER: Randy joins us now on the phone -- Randi.

KAYE: Anderson, I guess the real question is how will Sarah Palin make decisions, if she does become vice president? And if the past, really, is any indication of the future, as governor of Alaska, she did not push her socially-conservative agenda.

But some of the Democrats here say that's because she was too tied up with the oil industry and trying to build the pipeline and that, if she doesn't make it to Washington, that she will turn her attention towards abortion and some of these issues.

COOPER: What's been the McCain campaign response to all the YouTube videos coming out on Sarah Palin's church?

KAYE: It hasn't been very happy about it, Anderson. They released a statement late today, certainly trying to clarify those comments about the Iraq war, staying that she has saying that the war will be God's plan. She is not asserting that it is God's plan.