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Jeff G has the story and the quotes...

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GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there 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.

That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.

GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”

PALIN: I believe that there is a plan for this world and that plan for this world is for good. I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given, Charlie, and I believe that those are the rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That, in my world view, is a grand — the grand plan.

GIBSON: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?

PALIN: I don’t know if the task is from God, Charlie. What I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made, what he decided to do and serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer.

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Of course, the exact quote from the Wasilla Church speech proves that Charlie Gibson is an agenda-oriented scuzzbucket, and Sarah Palin knew he was fishing for a 'gotcha!'

The exact quote follows:

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“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

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Praying that our national leaders are sending our troops out on a task that might be from God does not not mean Sarah believes that this mission is from God, but praying that it really is (and hopefully is, given that her son volunteered for the fight) is a good thing.

Remember, Sarah is addressing a church crowd, and prayer and belief in God is a given. Sarah is obviously not like that socialist lefty Barack Obama, who can sit in a church for 20 years to pretend he's religious and not hear a word about Black Liberation Theology; Obama can become best pals with the "GOD DAMN AMERICA" 'minister' and not really hear that turn of phrase or acknowledge the sentiments behind it; Barack Hussein Obama even allowed that 'minister' to marry him and his 'bitter' wife and even title his second 'autobiography' (as if he's actually done anything to deserve one autobiography, much less two) and still find it necessary to throw the 'Reverend' Jeremiah Wright under the bus after said 'minister' proved to be more problematic than helpful.

Yes, give me Sarah Palin and her capacity for prayer over BHO and his capacity for socialism and identity politics.

How many people have the Republican ticket found necessary to to throw under the bus, BTW? Baracky, so many the wheels can't touch the ground anymore. That's your 'HOPE', that's your 'CHANGE': keep ditching your past until you are free!, man! Free to beThe ONE!

(Oh, and those are 'sneer' quotes btw...)

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