Posted on 09/25/2008 2:42:41 PM PDT by Chet 99
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer
When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase "under God," Sarah Palin was not amused. Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper.
Dear Editor, Palin wrote in 2002. San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase under God away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words, Palin wrote.
God Bless America, she concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com ...
The writer probably thinks this is a slam against Palin. How sad that the drive by media has no sense of what being an American is all about.
Plenty of bitter disappointment to go around the newsroom, I guess. No smoking gun, no screeds, perhaps a small obsession with lips ;) [I’m joking]. God Bless her, she is a real person.
Add another 1/2% to the margin for the McCain-Palin ticket in Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan. . . . . .
The Palins are anathema to neoliberals.
Upon exposure to anything Palin, a neoliberal will immediately writhe, hiss, speak in parseltongue and vomit. Their head may also rotate completely around.
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“Is MSNBC flogging this as a great discovery that will finally sink McCain?”
Well duh, what do you think?
They rank this right up there with their expose that Palin actually attends church, prayed for our troops, and failed to abort her downs child as facts that will make voters turn away from Palin in horror.
They don’t get it. Stories like this just endear more voters to her, especially in states like Michigan, Ohio, and Penn.
Huh....
Attention to detail...
Connects with constituents....
Follow up....
How in the heck did she make it this far in politics with THAT skill set????
Debating when the admixture of religion and government violates the Constitution is a good way to judge the average person’s intelligence. There is no “wall of seperation.” There is a phrase imbedded in the First Ammendment that deems it illegal to establish a religion. By “establish,” the Constitution obviously means “make official.” By “a religion,” the Constitution obviously means some specific church, not belief in God in general.
If anyone is incapable of realizing that the words in the Constitution have meaning, and that the specific words I highlighted mean what I just said they mean, they are ignorant and therefore do not deserve to join in debate. As for judges, they are not ignorant. They know what they’re doing when they cleave religion from the “public square.” They know what the words mean; they just don’t care.
If so, they likely failed. What I got from the article is that she is a very kind and sincere person who is thoughtful to all, big and small.
I was thinking Monty Python wrote the Obama campaign.
How sad that the drive by media has no sense of what being an American is all about.
What is sad is that they DO KNOW yet they seem determined to extinguish every last vistage of it from our collective
memory. Sadder yet is that they consider themselves Americans...
These bastards are pathetic. This idiot is a 'senior' investigative reporter, and only can come up with this?
Sarah rules! They are afraid. Very afraid.
THIS WOMAN MUST BE STOPPED!! My God, she writes thank you notes for smoked salmon! Obviously, she's just a God-fearing polite no-nonsense woman! We can't have that in Washington, it might make some look bad. /sarc
“Nobody messes with MY mommy!”
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