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Shameless Sarah: Speaking out of Both Sides of Her Mouth


While she’s accused Obama of talking one way in San Francisco and another in some small town, it’s clear that Palin has one message for the religious right and another for the general public.  For her church, she described the war in Iraq as follows:  "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God."   When talking to Charlie Gibson, she attempted to twist the meaning of her words to an entirely different outlook:  “....the reference...is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words when he said -- first, he suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that's a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side.”  

Sarah Palin, have you no shame? This is an obvious and direct LIE.  The first is an unequivocal statement about the mission in Iraq being God’s mission.  Lincoln, who came into office practically an atheist, deliberately eschewed the certainty that the religious right consistently claims, that they were doing God’s will.   Can’t you just admit that you either believe that the war is God’s mission, or that you were lying to your church when you said that?  As someone should have asked Samuel Alito, were you lying then or are you lying now, because the two things can’t be simultaneously true.

By the way, Abraham Lincoln destroyed secessionist traitors, rather than courting their vote.  Perhaps you can give your husband a Mary Todd Lincoln biography about supporting the country rather than trying to dismember it.

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