Man, I really don’t feel like spending too much energy on this. I’m sooo over Sarah Palin, but feel that I should at least document the passage of time. Will she win[1]? I don’t know, but I do think that it is likely that America’s wobbly middle is strong enough in their collective delusions/beliefs to make it happen. And by now it is clear that Palin wasn’t chosen to reel in the female vote; her mission is to bring Christianity to the McCain campaign, and by extension to the world. Hot damn, I can’t wait.

America’s most glorious believer had the following to say in a recent interview on US network television when questioned on her immediate willingness to jump aboard the McCain ticket.

I answered him yes because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can’t blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on — reform of this country and victory in the war — you can’t blink.

That’s a hectic thing to say; describing yourself in such militaristic terms; on a mission, a mission of country and victory and war.

God’s own fist

Here’s more from the interview

Charles Gibson: [you 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.

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

P: 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.

God’s own family

Ok now I’m scared. There are several things here that freak me out but I won’t bother with the obvious absurdity of linking the rights of nation states to God’s plan for the world, or how unsophisticated it is to present God’s perceived grand plan as always being the American concept of life, liberty and happiness. But her concept of her son’s ‘decision’ is ludicrous. There is nothing ‘independent’ about Track Palin’s[2] decision. How could his decision possibly be independent when his mom cannot help but to remind him that it is serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself? He has been given from his mother’s bosom to serve as God’s own man, in God’s own family from God’s own land.
There is no trace of individual strength in this young man’s glorious conformity.