McCain must embrace Palin's beliefs, evangelical leader says

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080909/pl_politico/20927;_ylt=AtZ0BeDq6iYegqkweXtcUqcDW7oF

He said he was alarmed by the report that she'd triggered a conflict with the local librarian in Wasilla, Alaska by inquiring about the possibility of banning books.

"Any time someone goes to the library and says, 'I want to ban books,' and the librarian says 'no,' and she threatens to fire them -- that's scary," he said.

(Palin at the time said she was just inquiring about the library's policy on banning books, with no aim of actually banning any. "It was a rhetorical question -- nothing more," the McCain-Palin campaign said in a memo yesterday. And no books were banned, the town says.)
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She sounds holier than we.
 
Theres been times in my life when I voted for whoever the TV preachers were against. This election is a bad time for the American voter because in my opinion at least neither candidate is decent Presidential material. I'm going to vote for McCain because he's the best of the two but overall he's not that great. The evangelists make matters worse.
 
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Should all books be allowed in a public library?
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Yup. The beauty of free speech and a government that defends it is that ALL speech is protected even the stuff that is crazy, disgusting, or evil. A better question would be should all books be easily accessible in a public library to which I am willing to answer no; so long as the rules for accessing questionable material are clearly defined, and easy to comply with. Of course then you get into the area of who does the defining of "questionable" and things get all cloudy again. These generalized questions really do get awfully complex.
 
I was watching Woopi Goldberg get all upset and taking it out on Hazelbeck, over the video of Palin talking about praying for the war in Iraq.
Woopi got all raged up because she thought she had been interrupted. Once they all calmed down, it turned out she was done and just wanted to repeat herself. Then Hazelbeck got all condescending about how churches should be a place to get a rest from politics. Well, nice for you to say because you live politics 24/7. Most people are not on TV as political commentators, and church might be the place for them, to be an outlet for their political expression of feelings. Great news folks. People are free in America to choose what church they go to. If Hazelbck does not want to hear about war or whatever, she can go to most churches who never let out a peep.
I felt like telling these people on the view, that Palin, in that video, was speaking in a church, not the state house of assembly. And I am sure her particular church were all for the USA winning, or whatever. Any die hard pacifists, I would suspect, left a long time ago.
As for the actual topic of this thread, I am sure McCain goes along, he just does not want to talk about it. Maybe because he does not like to lie. He can embrace, all day long, in order to get elected.
 
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(Palin at the time said she was just inquiring about the library's policy on banning books, with no aim of actually banning any. "It was a rhetorical question -- nothing more," the McCain-Palin campaign said in a memo yesterday. And no books were banned, the town says.)

Perhaps McCain/Palin should read a bit more. I always understood that a rhetorical question was one that doesn't require an answer.
 
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"Evangelical" seems to get thrown around a lot in a new connotation of " those backwards americans, not OUR smart christians". As if it excuses the equally retarded actions of christians everywhere else if "at least they're not evangelicals"

Seeing the OP " McCain must embrace Palin's beliefs, evangelical leader says" has me wondering, "which one? Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?"
 
Meh. One individual's not-very-persuasive opinion. WHo else are conservative Christians going to vote for? Are they going to write in Pat Robertson or something? Fat chance.
 
They are not saying that John McCain needs to believe like Palin, they are saying that now that they have Palin, they need to promote her faith as an asset rather than a liability or they will lose their religious base votes.

This is sort of a DOH thing, almost a non story.
But ... the next few days, next couple of weeks will be very critical because as you pointed out, her faith has become an issue. It's being attacked, being used as a weapon against her. People are watching. It will be very important how the McCain campaign handles this. If they become defensive and run from it and try to hide the fact that there is this element of faith, then I think it's going to turn off social conservatives, evangelicals, orthodox Christians.
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What I continue to find mildly amusing is how empty the threats are. Do conservative Christians think that it gets any better than this?

It's always something like - 'If we don't get exactly what we want we're gonna stay home on voting day.'

Oh please, don't do that... :rolleyes:
 
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