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Overnight Open Thread: Season of the Witch

By Jeralyn

Context:

• Associated Press: Palin Once Blessed to Be Free From Withcraft
• Max Blumenthal: The Witch Fighter Annoints Palin
• KagroX at Daily Kos: Preacher Problem

John McCain may want to think twice before running new ads about Rev. Wright. His campaign said this week Wright could come up during the last 43 days of the election. Undoubtedly, the Obama campaign will ignore them and refuse to fight back with the Palin preacher videos, saying saying it's all about the economy, but the media won't and voters will see them. [More...]

The Republican base and radical right won't care, but Independents and moderates who haven't yet made up their mind may well find witchcraft and preachers who speak in tongues just a tad too bizarre.

Max Blumenthal writes:

On September 20 and 21, I attended services at the church Sarah Palin belonged to since she was an adolescent, the Wasilla Assembly of God. Though Palin officially left the church in 2002, she is listed on its website as “a friend,” and spoke there as recently as June 8 of this year.

The You Tube video is here (Palin appears about 7:30 in.)

The pastor, as Max notes, is visiting Kenyan pentacostal preacher Thomas Muthee:

Muthee’s mounting stardom took him to Wasilla Assembly of God in May, 2005, where he prayed over Palin and called upon Jesus to propel her into the governor’s mansion — and beyond. Muthee also implored Jesus to protect Palin from "the spirit of witchcraft." The video archive of that startling sermon was scrubbed from Wasilla Assembly of God’s website, but now it has reappeared.

At 1:20 into the video, as Kagro X notes, Muthee says:

The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today.

Related: My Sept. 1 post about Palin's pastors based on this Harper's Magazine article.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).