The woman is a raving lunatic. From the NY Times: Ms. Palin’s faith has come under scrutiny after two videos taken in her former church surfaced on YouTube and became immediate sensations. The first showed a visiting preacher from Kenya praying fervently over Ms. Palin in a gravelly voice and asking God to favor her campaign for governor and protect her from “every form of witchcraft.” The second showed Ms. Palin at an event in June praising the African preacher’s prayer as “awesome” and “very, very powerful.” She is also seen nodding as her former pastor from Wasilla prays over her and declares that Alaska is “one of the refuge states in the Last Days,” a piece of prophecy popular in some prayer networks that predicts that as the “end times” approach, people will flock to Alaska for its abundant open space and natural resources. read more | digg storyHere are the videos: #1 #2 Here's Keith Olbermann ripping Palin over this:

Pray for Sarah.

Very scary. If she became President she could bring about the "End Times".On Faith: Palin's Association TroublingBut the Palin involvement with Rev. Muthee is very different. It is not just a matter of her association with the Reverend or his church. She is on record as herself openly espousing "end times" theories and considering that our national wars, actually occurring and actively anticipated, are part of "God's plan" for the world. So in her case it is abundantly clear that her decisions in a possible position of national governmental authority would be very directly influenced, even motivated, by specific, extreme, religious prophetic beliefs. This means that a person within close reach of nuclear codes and so forth could make decisions to use them based not on rational calculations of the dangers and necessities involved, but on avowedly non-rational religious beliefs. This is simply unacceptable for anyone who does not share her particular beliefs, and should be brought out in the press much more forcefully for people to consider. No one so far has asked directly on the record if she would make decisions based on her belief in the "end times" scenario that involves Muslims, Russia, Israel, and America.Watch It:

Pentecostals are a Christian sect whose most prominent charcteristic (other than the low entry barrier for ministerial ordination) is a penchant for ecstatic gibberish. In the video that’s been making the rounds (see below) Sarah Palin’s Pastor Muthee prays in English, but I still feel like his message is hard for layfolk to discern.  Because I spent most of my youth trying to avoid being slathered in olive oil and sauteed in the Holy Ghost fire, I think I can offer a plainer translation, after the jump.The amazing god-fearing video, in rapturous tounge-speak: The exclusive Pinko translation, in snarky English: Dear Jesus,We thank you for Sarah.  She’s going to do your work in the capitol.  We just ask that you grant her a bunch of money, and power, so that we can share in that money and power too.  And please protect her from all the witch-doctors, witch-lawyers, and freelance-witch-consultants plotting against her…and bears - you know we have problems with them up here.  You are mysterious and your ways are higher than ours, and that’s exactly how we know you want Sarah to be governor.  Please Jesus, see to it that things like lack of qualifications, pesky legal investigations, or even disagreements on matters of personal opinion do not prevent you from doing our will. We thank you for dying to serve as a justification for our hypocritical behavior and frankly secular ambitions. Amen.

(tagesanzeiger.ch) Im Internet-Portal YouTube tauchten Videoaufnahmen auf, welche die republikanische Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin Sarah Palin bei einer speziellen Messe in ihrer Kirche zeigen.Die Bilder zeigen, wie Palin im Mai 2005 vor dem kenianischen Bischof Thomas Muthee in der Kirche Wasilla Assembly of God steht, während er Jesus Christus auffordert, sie vor «jeder Form der Hexerei» zu beschützen. [...]