Both the challenges of war and the challenges of politics are challenges of leadership. And both military strategists and political strategists agree that the most basic leadership challenge in both arenas is to know and understand yourself - your strengths and your weaknesses - and to know your opponents and their strengths and weaknesses. While this may seem like basic common sense, it is quite amazing to see how often it is ignored.
The rarity of this sort of strategic wisdom in the public sphere was brought to the fore this week in the political uproar generated by US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain's selection of Palin was remarkable because in choosing her from the list of possible candidates, he made a decision that embraced rather than ignored this most basic challenge of leadership.
Given that the universality of the logic that informed McCain's selection of Palin is followed more in the breach than in practice, it is worth analyzing his choice, both for what it tells us about his leadership skills, and about the nature of his domestic opposition. But it is also useful to reflect on his choice of Palin to draw lessons that can be applied more widely by non-leftist political strategists and military strategists throughout the free world.
In the months preceding McCain's announcement of Palin as his running mate, his central challenges as the Republican presidential nominee came into focus. In Senator Barack Obama, McCain faces a young, vigorous and charismatic opponent who has successfully energized his supporters and the powerful US liberal media establishment. Owing to that excitement, Obama has raised unprecedented amounts of campaign contributions. He has also rallied tens of thousands of loyal foot soldiers who have volunteered to serve his campaign. Both the donors and the volunteers are essential for winning voters and bringing them to the ballot boxes on November 4.
Obama's velvet tongue is also a formidable asset. His ability to mesmerize audiences with soaring rhetoric is compared favorably to president John F. Kennedy's eloquence.
Obama's other massive advantage is the liberal media. Since he first launched his primary campaign, the liberal media - which include the major US newspapers, television news networks and two out of three cable news networks - have been actively advocating on his behalf while downplaying his opponents.
But all of these formidable strengths are matched by countervailing vulnerabilities. While Obama's supporters are energized, the drawn-out primary election battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton splintered the Democratic Party base. Whereas most of Clinton's voters will no doubt vote for Obama in the general election, their support is more tenuous in swing states where Obama's cultural cache is less appealing.
And while Obama is a stunning speaker, his record of actual accomplishments is all but nonexistent. The combination of his extraordinary speeches and his ordinary empty resumé engenders a sense that Obama suffers from extreme arrogance.
Then, too, while the media has done its best to project a positive and credible image of Obama, his past political associations with radicals such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayres and corrupt influence peddler Tony Rezko call both his patriotism and his honesty into question.
McCain's balance of assets and deficits is almost the polar opposite of Obama's. He has a wealth of leadership experience and demonstrable political accomplishments. His patriotism is massively recognized and respected.
On the other hand, McCain has been unable to generate excitement in his party. His reputation as a maverick has often been earned at the expense of his political base, which is overwhelmingly socially conservative and suspects him of being a closet liberal. This has made fund-raising a challenge, and raised concerns that many conservatives will simply not vote on Election Day.
Moreover, McCain has never distinguished himself as a great communicator. His war wounds, which prevent him from raising his arms above his shoulders, make him appear even older than his 72 years. When compared to the vigorous, handsome 46-year-old Obama, McCain tends to look and sound like an old man.
This age and rhetorical distinction is only magnified by the disparity of media coverage of the two candidates' campaigns. The media have a pronounced and documented tendency to play up McCain's weaknesses and Obama's strengths while downplaying McCain's strengths and Obama's weaknesses.
IN LIGHT of these realities, McCain's strategic challenge has been on the one hand, to transform Obama's strengths into weaknesses while bringing Obama's actual weaknesses to the public's attention in a persuasive way. On the other hand, McCain needs to unify his own party around his candidacy without alienating independents and Democrats whose votes can be won.
In recent weeks, largely through the well-conceived, satirical use of television ads, McCain sought to meet these basic challenges. By comparing Obama's speech in Berlin to Moses's parting of the Red Sea, he playfully yet effectively drew attention to Obama's arrogance and called the credibility of his rhetorical skill into question. Other ads effectively brought Obama's slim record of actual achievements into view. Still other ads sought to attract disaffected Clinton voters by using her own primary campaign denunciations of Obama's record and radical associations.
Most importantly, in the lead-up to Palin's selection as his running mate, McCain has successfully provoked a public debate about the fairness of the media's support of Obama.
McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate, then, came after he had set the conditions for a strategic assault on Obama by successfully weakening him and discrediting his support base. The surprise entry of a young, accomplished woman with a compelling personal story who was all but unknown to the national audience, placed the Obama campaign and particularly his media supporters in a state of shock. And in their shocked reaction to her selection, the liberal media destroyed their own credibility - not to mention likability - among the general public.
The media claimed that McCain's choice of Palin was ill-conceived for three reasons. First, they argued that the popular Alaska governor has no experience in foreign policy and with only two years in state-wide office, little demonstrable experience in governing. Yet their assertions merely highlighted Obama's own inexperience while amplifying McCain's wealth of experience.
Second, the media insinuated that Palin is unfit for office because she has an infant child with Down's Syndrome. Either she will be a bad mother, or she will be a bad vice president, they claimed. Yet in so arguing, the liberal media merely demonstrated their own hypocrisy. While claiming the mantle of feminism, the media commentators belittled Palin's right to choose - together with her macho, blue collar husband - to serve her country as a mother of a child with special needs. Their harping on her personal family choices angered the vital demographic of middle class working mothers who felt personally insulted by their attacks on Palin.
Finally, of course, there was the media circus generated by Palin's belated announcement that her teenage daughter Bristol is pregnant and engaged to marry her teenage boyfriend. The news of her daughter's pregnancy evoked the ugliest media assault on a teenager in recent memory. Here, too, the media's pillorying of Palin as a lousy mother and her daughter as morally challenged discredited the media while increasing Palin's sympathy with voters shocked by this scurrilous assault on her daughter and her family values.
At the same time as McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate pushed the media over the edge, it profoundly rallied his own Republican base to his side. Palin's opposition to abortion, her membership in the National Rifle Association, her remoteness from Washington, her Pentecostal faith, together with the media attacks on her family gave social conservatives reason to be enthusiastic about the prospect of a McCain presidency.
IT BEARS noting that that the sight of Palin's pregnant daughter appearing happily with her clean-cut fiancé at the Republican Convention on Wednesday served to reinforce the fact that women who are "pro-choice" actually have the choice not to abort unplanned pregnancies. Their presence in the hall demonstrated that embracing the responsibility of parenthood even at an early age can be a source of happiness and personal fulfillment for both fathers and mothers. That image alone no doubt ensured that on Election Day, tens of thousands of volunteers will work to bring voters to the polls for McCain.
Indeed, the value of the image is so enormous that the possibility arises that using his understanding of the media as an adversary and his understanding of his own political base, McCain viewed Bristol Palin's pregnancy as an electoral asset.
In the midst of the maelstrom swirling around her in the days that preceded her address to the Republican Convention, it was noted repeatedly that Palin's performance Wednesday evening would make or break McCain's candidacy. If she failed to present herself in a compelling fashion, she would destroy McCain's chances of election because her failure would serve as an indictment of his judgment. But if she succeeded, she would advance significantly the Republican ticket's chances of winning on November 4.
Many argued that McCain took an unnecessary gamble by placing such an enormous burden on her shoulders. Yet the fact is that McCain no doubt knew precisely what her capabilities are as a speaker. Unlike the media, he claims that he has been watching her political rise for years. He knew that she was capable of rising to the challenge. Far from a gamble, his move was a stroke of brilliance that showed an acute understanding of who Palin is, how he himself is perceived, and what motivates both the media and his own party base.
McCain's undoing of the elite, leftist media provides a universal lesson for contending with the Left. At base, the Left's ideology, whether relating to women's rights, human rights, academic inquiry or war and peace is not universal but tribal. Moreover, when the Left is challenged on any one of its signature issues, because it cannot actually make a case for the universal applicability or even logic of its views, it tends instead to embrace the politics of personal destruction while ignoring the obvious contradictions between its stated beliefs and actual behavior.
Although a necessary component of political warfare against the Left is the ability to expose its hypocrisy, exposing its hypocrisy alone will not bring victory. Leaders and policies capable of supplanting the Leftist elite and their failed ideas are also required. In the case at hand, had Palin been perceived as under-qualified to serve as vice president on Wednesday night, McCain's chances of winning the presidency would have been vastly diminished despite his successful unmasking of the Left's hypocrisy.
McCain's strategic grasp of the requirements for a successful presidential race provide an important lesson for policy-makers and political leaders. To win in politics and war you must be willing to acknowledge both your strengths and your weaknesses, and those of your opponent. It is never easy to look reality in the face. But unless leaders are willing to do so, they will never win. What's more, they will lose.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
Comments (15)
The politic's of no hope,it's a dead end although the idol worshipers of the Left and the Right are all quite energized at this time.
Like so many,your hope and faith is greatly misplaced.
You wrote about McCain's closet liberalism but there is nothing closet about this anti-conservative Republican in name only and his openly globalist agenda. That he picked a good second fiddle to lure in the easily seduced right is just more of the same we had from the last R.I.N.O. con man who seduced the right for their vote.
How easily the sheep headed for slaughter grab onto any false hope thrown them by those who are masters in the art of deception and doublespeak.
Those who seek help and solutions from the political arena whether right or left are going down to Egypt for help and will be sorely displeased again, only this time unprotected from the catastrophic storm. Your man or woman will not save you.
It does not matter who is elected in the U.S. because with Obama we are doomed and with McCain we are doomed.Sarah Palin will not stop God's handwriting on America's wall. The politics of false hope and no solutions or salvation lead only to futility and great despair.
Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Daniel 5
Those of you who wasted time and life in the empty politics of no salvation will cry the loudest because your hope was in lies and delusion.
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Isaiah 31
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it;but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1
Posted by Marcel Cousineau | September 5, 2008 4:58 PM
Now that the conventions are over, the real race to the White House has begun. Senator Obama's choice of Senator Biden as his running mate is proof that Senator Obama is inexperienced. Conversely, Senator McCain's selection of Governor Palin as his running mate shows that he has far more experience than Senator Obama. In November, American voters need to elect Senator McCain to the Presidency because he has the right stuff to be commander-in-chief. Let’s pray that the next US Administration is led by President John McCain.
Posted by Marc Handelsman, USA | September 5, 2008 6:45 PM
I am visiting my family in the US now, from Israel, and arrived here the day McCain announced his choice. It is refreshing to see a ticket which seems to not be tied to the oil interests like Bush is. They say M. Begin would have been a better PM if he was elected when he was younger, in his prime. I felt the same about McCain somewhat, but he's a trooper and as Mrs. Glick wrote, it seems his political brain is still working well. I did not know about that thing with his injuries and raising his arms, it explains part of the impression he made on me.
Gov. Palin is an admirable figure and should give conservatives in Israel inspiration to get more involved in politics.
Posted by Chanoch Ne'eman | September 5, 2008 9:33 PM
Brilliant! Extreme arrogance, for sure. Obama's fixation on himself is evident in his only major achievements -- writing two books about himself and convincing the Chicago Democratic machine, often termed the "corrupt" Chicago machine, to back him as its front man to gain national political power and all the riches that would flow from it. History has taught us what narcissism run amok can do. To suggest that the Republican and Democratic tickets are equally bad is nonsense. Every effort must be expended to ensure success for McCain/Palin.
Posted by Fran Meaney | September 6, 2008 4:46 AM
Caroline Glick My Precious Sister AMEN WELL
WRITTEN SIS! I Pray Marcel Our Precious Brother
Has Something POSITIVE He Can "Glean" From This
Political MESS In The U.S.A.??? Sis You Are
TRULY Gifted Of The LORD Our God DEFINITELY IN
THE SAME HOLY GHOST ANNOITING AS SHULA COHEN
AMEN, SAME REMARKABLE COURAGE AND INTELLECT AS
DEBRA THE JUDGE OF ISRAEL. I Am Laughing At
The LOST (NOT JUDGING) Followers Of Mr. HUSSEIN
Obama The CLOSET SUNNI MUSLIM!!! Clearly The
Muslims Know He Is "Faking The Funk" WHICH IS
ALLOWED UNDER ISLAMIC TEACHINGS, THEIR "HUDNA"
Even The Late Ray Charles, God Bless His Soul,
Could See It And HE WAS BLIND!!! The Liberal
Left And Their Baby Killing ABORTIONIST Machine
In The U.S.A. Truly FEAR Women Such As Yourself
And Sarah Palin Sis, NO Doubt About It At ALL!
Check This Out, The Abortionist Whom Do NOT Want
The Women To Make The EDUCATED CHOICE To NOT
Kill Their Babies In The Womb (NOT Judging Just
Noting That The "Pro-Choice" Movement Does NOT
Want Women To CHOOSE NOT To Kill Their Babies)
HAS ALREADY PLEDGED $30 Million Dollars To
Defeat SARAH PALIN. How Bout That Sis??? This
Bold Courageous Woman Whom Speaks From HER Heart
WITHOUT FEAR OF THE LIBERAL LEFT MEDIA MACHINE,
HAS ALREADY SENT THE PRO-ABORTIONISTS INTO A
MAJOR STATE OF PANIC! I HAVE ALREADY WITNESSED
THEIR T.V. AND RADIO COMMERCIALS CLAIMING THAT
SARAH PALIN WILL CAUSE ROE V. WADE TO BE OVER-
TURNED! THE LYING LIBERALS, GOD BLESS THEM AND
MAY THEY ALL REPENT AMEN, ARE SHAKING IN THEIR
BOOTS AT THE MERE THOUGHT OF THIS COURAGEOUS
WOMAN SARAH PALIN BEING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
U.S.A., THAT IS TRUE FEAR SIS! Why On GOD's
Green Earth The LORD Jehovah EL Shaddai Created
(ELOHIM THOU ART FOREVER MORE OUR JEHOVAH EL
SHADDAI-GENESIS 1:26-28 AMEN PRAISE THE LORD)
Are The ANTI-Israel, ANTI-American, PRO-ISLAMIC
TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR CO-HORTS SUCH
AS "PLANNED PARENTHOOD" ETC. WHOM DO NOT EVEN
WANT WOMEN CONSIDERING ABORTIONS TO SEE AN ULTRA
SOUND OF THEIR BABIES, FEAR 1 WOMAN SIS??? I Am
Truly Wondering Could It Be THEY DO NOT WANT
Women To Make INFORMED Decisions NOT TO ABORT
LIFE? BABIES WHOM DID NOT ASK TO BE BROUGHT INTO
THIS MESS YET THE LORD OUR GOD WILL WORK IT ALL
OUT FOR THE GOOD OF THIS SICK WORLD WE LIVE IN,
FOR THE LORD OUR GOD'S PURPOSES TO BLESS THE
LIVES OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN HOPELESSNESS AND
DESPAIR??? It Is Written, "Children Are An
Inheritance FROM THE LORD" OUR GOD THE LORD OF
ALL FLESH AS IT IS WRITTEN JEREMIAH 32:26-27)
BABIES, INFANTS, CHILDREN ARE NOT "BLOBS OF
FLESH" OR "FETUS" LIKE THE ABORTIONIST CALL THE
LORD'S CREATION ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN), I
TRULY PITY THE FOOLISH MEN AND WOMEN WORLD WIDE
THAT CALL GOD'S CREATION BY FALSE NAMES SUCH AS
"BLOBS OF FLESH" OR "FETUS" IN A EVIL ATTEMPT TO
DECEIVE THE PARENTS OF THESE CHILDREN YET TO BE
BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD FOR GOD'S PURPOSES AMEN.
I Personally Have WITNESSED People Whom AFTER
SEEING AN ULTRA-SOUND OF THIER BABIES, AND
HEARING THEIR TINY HEARTS BEATING, CHANGED
Their HEARTS AND MINDS By The GRACE Of The LORD
Our God And NO OTHER REASON, Found HOPE AND
TRUE HAPPINESS Raising These BABIES And LOVING
Them. LIFE IS SACRED, THE LORD OUR GOD DECLARES
CLEARLY IN HIS WORD, "I SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND
DEATH, THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE!" or WORDS To That
Effect AMEN Sis??? I Surely Am NOT In Favor Of
JUDGING ANYONE For ANY Reason, I Am Merely
Stating What I Truly Believe Is BLATANTLY
OBVIOUS FOR ALL TO SEE AND HEAR: The LORD Our
God Clearly States REPEATEDLY IN HIS WORD TO ALL
"Fear NOT" So My Question To All The "Genius"
Horses' Behinds (I Am Attempting In Good Faith
To Be TACTFUL AS POSSIBLE AMEN) Is This SIMPLE
Question: Why Does ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN FEAR
WOMEN Choosing AGAINST ALL ODDS NOT TO ABORT OR
MURDER THEIR UN-BORN CHILDREN??? They Often Use
The Term "FETUS" Instead Of BABY Or INFANT To
"FAKE PEOPLE OUT", Sort Of Like The "LAND FOR
PEACE" LIES THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL HAVE BEEN
REPEATING FOR DECADES NOW, Sort Of Like Another
BLATANT LIE "ARAB/MUSLIM MODERATES", LIES AND
MORE LIES! I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE ANY OF THESE
PEOPLE ON JUDGEMENT DAY THAT IS FOR SURE AMEN!!!
It Is Written, "We Have ALL SINNED And Fallen
Short Of The Glory Of The LORD Our God" Or WORDS
To That Effect, I Pray That The TRUTH To Be
RELENTLESSLY SOUNDED BY THE SHOFAR IN ZION FOR
ALL NATION'S AND PEOPLE'S SAKE AMEN. STAY
STRONG CAROLINE GLICK AND PLEASE NEVER EVER
STOP OR EVEN PAUSE FROM SOUNDING THE SHOFAR
FOR ZION'S SAKE THAT ALL NATIONS SHALL KNOW
THAT THE LORD OUR GOD HAS WRITTEN HIS NAME IN
JERUSALEM AND IT IS THE ETERNAL CAPITAL OF HIS
ETERNAL COVENANT PEOPLE ISRAEL THE APPLE OF HIS
GLORIOUS AGAPE' LOVING MERCIFUL NAME AMEN :):):)
I Love You ALL, Jew & Gentile, Man & Woman, Free
And Slave, ALL Tribes, Tongues, Nations, Peoples
AND YOU CANNOT DO A THING ABOUT IT AMEN :):):)
Stay Strong All My Precious Brothers And Sisters
And NEVER EVER SURRENDER FOR ZION'S SAKE AS IT
IS WRITTEN GENESIS 12:1-3,ISAIAH 62,HAGGAI 2:8,
AMOS 3:7,HABAKKUK 2:1-3,NUMBERS 6:24-27 AMEN :)
P.S.-Here Is The Article From AOL Political
Machine Sis, God Bless You Eternally Caroline :)
Abortion Rights Groups Target Palin
By Liza Porteus Viana
Sep 5th 2008 3:29PM
Filed Under:eJohn McCain, Featured Stories,
2008 President, Abortion, Sarah Palin
We knew this was coming.
A number of pro-choice groups are targeting
Sarah Palin, spending a TON OF CASH in an
effort to make sure women - particularly
undecided voters, no doubt - don't take too
much of a liking to the feisty Alaska governor
and cast their vote for John McCain in November.
Three major advocates of abortion rights are
planning to spend nearly $30 million to defeat
John McCain's run for president, CITING HIS NEW
RUNNING MATE AS "THE CORE REASON", The Hill
reports.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood
and EMILY's List plan to spend $30 million,
combined, to defeat McCain's presidential run,
citing his anti-abortion running mate as the
MAIN REASON.
"This is the most anti-choice ticket in history
of the Republican Party," NARAL Political
Director Beth Shipp told the paper. "McCain put
someone as outside the mainstream as you can on
his ticket, which is Sarah Palin."NARAL says
Palin is especially troublesome for the
Independent and Republican pro-choice women in
suburban and exurban swing districts who may
play a pivotal role in the election. The group
will reportedly spend $10 million to target 34
to 35 congressional districts in battleground
states.
NARAL also points out that Palin, a member of
the anti-abortion group Feminists for Life,
said during her campaign for governor that she
is opposed to abortion, even in cases of rape
or incest. But she also said she would support
abortion only if the mother's life was in
danger. But when it came to her daughter, she
said, "I WOULD CHOOSE LIFE."
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund says of
Palin: "This selection may satisfy the right
wing of the Republican Party, but it will
further alienate mainstream women voters." This
group is also spending $10 million to reach out
to pro-choice voters in battlegrounds.
EMILY's List, which supports female Democratic
candidates who support abortion rights, will
spend a similar amount. This group on Wednesday
released a new poll on what women voters,
including Sen. Hillary Clinton supporters,
think of Palin and the McCain-Palin ticket as
compared to the Obama-Biden ticket.
Of the 800 likely Democratic, Republican, and
Independent women voters, the poll found, among
other things:
-Palin's background and personal narrative are
not particularly appealing to women voters
-Several of Palin's positions on issues,
including that on abortion, alienate large
segments of the women's electorate and add to
the perception that the GOP ticket is out of
step with women voters' views and priorities.
-Women voters conclude that the Obama/Biden
ticket is more in step with the issues and
concerns that are important to women than is
the McCain/Palin ticket.
"With the most important decision of his
candidacy, Senator McCain managed to appear
politically expedient, reverse his advantage on
experience, damage his potential for growth
among independents and undecided voters, and
turn off the women who supported Senator
Hillary Clinton," said EMILY's List President
Ellen Malcolm. "If Senator McCain thought that
putting Governor Palin on the ticket would be a
game changer, he may have been right, but not
in the way he intended. Senator McCain has
seriously misjudged women voters if he thinks
he can win them over simply by putting a woman
on the ticket."
Posted by Timothy Kriete FOR ISRAEL FOREVER AMEN | September 6, 2008 8:19 AM
Sen. McCain made an amazing choice with Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Given the fact that George Soros had a hand in selecting Joe Biden as Obama's VP pick, it shouldn't surprise us that the mainstream media would attack Gov. Palin as much as they do. The question that no one is asking in the mainstream media is who vetted Obama? If the media can find fault with what they perceive to be a lack of experience with Sarah Palin, why can't they do the same for Senator Obama? What's more Gov. Palin is very pro-Israel, as opposed to Senator Biden, who clearly is not.
Posted by Jay | September 7, 2008 1:53 AM
I linked to your excellent analysis at the Net Cafe:
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/09/john_mccain_master_strategist.asp
You saw it clearly and explained it masterfully.
Many thanks!
Posted by SurferDoc | September 7, 2008 10:13 AM
'I Pray Marcel Our Precious Brother
Has Something POSITIVE He Can "Glean" From This
Political MESS In The U.S.A.???'
Yes I do ! It's positivly corrupt beyond repair and those who sit at this table of vomit do not sit at the table of the Lord.
You can't serve two masters my deceived Timothy. Choose one or the other.
Here's a video of Sarah talkng at her Assembly of God Church in Alaska.
It's amazing how apostate and without salt the church has become.This vain and sugar filled religion is 'cool'but dead and Palin will only accomplish to lead the dumb sheep to more false hope as we had with the other false peacemaker,deceiver Bush who has successfully done what Israel's enemies could not do in five wars ,carved up what little land she has and given it to Islamic terrorists.
"There is no political salvation coming to America without repentance and the false political road bypasses repentance and is all about the worthless power of the flesh,it's not in the bible this false religion of God's people in bed with corrupt,filthy politics"
And one cannot "do the will of God" if one does not fall into true repentance as this video of Mrs. Palin claims no approach to repent or perish, no born again transformation, no blood of Jesus mentioned here at all, only political efforts by the hand on man again failing to do things God's way.
That is why the Road Map has failed ,it's not God's way !!!!!
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341
Posted by Marcel Cousineau | September 7, 2008 3:08 PM
What an excellent assessment. Love the article.
Posted by 8 My Foot | September 7, 2008 7:48 PM
Dear Caroline:
Great assessment, although I believe Mrs. Palin is no longer a member of the Pentacostal church, having determined that that is too extreme a form of Christianity.
Posted by Grace | September 7, 2008 9:26 PM
Two thumbs up!!!!
Posted by Fueled By Randomness | September 7, 2008 10:15 PM
STAY STRONG Caroline Glick My Precious Sister,
PLEASE ALLOW THIS POST CAROLINE MY SISTER :)
MARCEL, MARCEL, VERILY VERILY I SAY TO YOU I
SERVE ONLY 1 MASTER=ELOHIM WHOM IS FOREVER MORE
MY JEHOVAH EL SHADDAI THAT WATCHES OVER ISRAEL
THE APPLE OF HIS EYES FOREVER MORE AMEN. I Pity
You My LOST Brother, Your Anger And Despair Is
TRULY SELF-IMPOSED. It Is Written, "The Joy Of
The LORD Is Our Strength" AMEN. Based On Your
Chronic NEGATIVE POSTS Where Is Your JOY Marcel
Marcel??? Indeed There Is Corruption As The
LORD Said Would Be So, Always Has Been Until The
Return Of The HEBREW MESSIAH THE HEBREW RABBI
YESHUA To Set Up HIS Kingdom On Earth As It Is
In Heaven Marcel. Perhaps You Could Reference
What The Blood Of Jesus Christ Does My LOST
Brother, If You Truly Are COVERED In The Blood
Of The LAMB OF GOD YESHUA Then Why Are You Soo
Chronically ANGRY And Hostile MARCEL MY LOST
BROTHER??? You Seem To Always Find Something
To WHINE ABOUT LIKE A LITTLE BABY WHOM DROPPED
HIS BOTTLE OF MILK, No Disrespect Or Offense
Intended Marcel. Perhaps Your CHRONIC Hatred
Of WOMEN In Positions Of AUTHORITY Rubs You
Wrong Marcel, A Burnt Chicken Fears FIRE Huh?
JUDGE NOT LEAST YE BE JUDGED IS WHAT OUR LORD
SAID REPEATEDLY MARCEL, SO WHY ARE YOU BEING
SOO CHRONICALLY JUDGEMENTAL WHEN THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST CLEARLY SAID, "LOVE YE ONE ANOTHER AS I
HAVE LOVED YOU ALL" Or WORDS To That Effect AMEN
Marcel??? Mrs. Sarah Palin AND Mr. McCain BOTH
OPENLY Spoke Of The LORD's Blessings On THEIR
Lives And THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THOSE BLESSINGS.
Did YOUR SUNNI MUSLIM Boyfriend Mr. HUSSEIN
OBAMA AND HIS SUNNI MUSLIM WIFE MENTION JESUS
CHRIST OR THE LORD OUR GOD IN THEIR SPEECHES???
I Have NO Doubt Mr. Hussein And His Sunni Muslim
Wife Shall Be The Next USA President And First
Lady Because God Puts Kings And Leaders In Those
Positions Because People Cry Out For EVIL
LEADERS As Did The Children Of Israel With King
Saul, As Does MANY Nations, Tribes, Tongues And
Peoples, Past, Present, AND Future Marcel. The
Majority Of The USA's "LOST SHEEP" BELIEVE IF WE
HAVE A MUSLIM PRESIDENT THAT IRAN AND THE HATERS
OF HUMANKIND WILL TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, A
BLIND MAN OR WOMAN CAN CLEARLY SEE THE WRITING
ON THE WALLS, SO TO SPEAK. Whatever Is LACK OF
FAITH Is SIN As It Is Written In The Book Of
LAMENTATIONS Correct MARCEL MARCEL??? The LORD
Clearly Stated, "All Scriptures SHALL COME TO
PASS, But Let Your Heart NOT Be Troubled" Or
WORDS To That Effect AMEN Marcel Marcel???
Where Is Your FAITH In The Blood Of Jesus Christ
YOU Proclaim Marcel, Marcel??? Marcel Jesus
Christ THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SINS
OF THE WORLD AMEN Did NOT Want Your Heart And
Mind To Be TROUBLED By What Is Happening World
Wide MY Brother. THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE THE
LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB (ISRAEL)
Is IN CONTROL Regardless Of What Is Truly Evil
And Being Manifested By The Enemy Lucifer The
FALLEN Angel And His Crew Of FALLEN Angels As
It Is Written By The Hand Of THE HEBREW PROPHET
ISAIAH AMEN, So What Is The TRUE SOURCE OF YOUR
ANGER AND GRIEF SIR??? You Mentioned That FALSE
"Religion" Is IN BED WITH CORRUPT FILTHY PEOPLE
Politics, THIS IS 1 OF THE MANY SIGNS THE LORD
SAID WOULD COME TO PASS IN THE LATTER DAYS SIR.
Where Is YOUR FAITH In The LORD OUR God Of ALL
FLESH (Jeremiah 32:26-27 AMEN) Marcel, Marcel?
I Truly Believe The LORD Our God Is NOT Sitting
On The Throne In Heaven ALL CONFUSED, PERPLEXED
AND SURPRISED SCRATCHING HIS HEAD AMAZED, AND
SAYING, "GEE, I NEVER THOUGHT MY CREATION WOULD
DO THIS EVIL IN MY SIGHT" Or WORDS To That
Effect Marcel, Marcel. It Is Written, "The
LORD Declares THE END FROM THE BEGINNING" Or
WORDS To That Effect, So Is The LORD ELOHIM
THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH AND THE
FULLNESS THEREOF, SUPRISED BY ANYTHING THAT HAS
HAPPENED, IS HAPPENING NOW, OR SHALL HAPPEN SIR
MARCEL MARCEL MY PRECIOUS LOST BROTHER??? I
Can Guess From YOUR Posts YOUR HEART IS GREATLY
TROUBLED THUS COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THE LORD IS
USING THIS TO JOIN WITH CAROLINE GLICK TO SOUND
THE SHOFAR FOR ZION'S SAKE WITHOUT TURNING
AGAINST EACH OTHER MARCEL MARCEL??? PLEASE
FEEL FREE TO STONE ME MARCEL, YOUR tiny pebbles
just bounce off My HOLY GHOST ANNOITED SPIRITUAL
ARMOR AS IT IS WRITTEN EPHESIANS 6:1-24 AMEN. I
Shall Continue To Pray FOR YOU And EVERYONE Sir
Marcel Marcel That The LORD Of Glory Circumcise
YOUR HEART MARCEL MARCEL, It Is Written, "A
BROKEN HEART And A CONTRITE SPIRIT The LORD GOD
Shall NOT Forsake",Or WORDS To That Effect AMEN.
I DAILY THANK The LORD Our God FOR SUCH HOLY
GHOST ANNOITED WOMEN, CLEARLY DAUGHTERS OF ZION
AS SHULA COHEN AND CAROLINE GLICK Whom The LORD
Is Using For HIS GLORY, I Salute Sarah Palin For
HER BOLDNESS AND COURAGE And HER DECISION TO
STAND AGAINST ABORTION AND THE EVIL ONE SATAN.
It Is Written, We Battle NOT Against Flesh &
Blood, But We Battle AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES,
POWERS, AND RULERS IN DARK PLACES, OR WORDS TO
THAT EFFECT. I Love EVERYONE And I Pray For
EVERYONE As The LORD Commands, Yet I Stand
AGAINST Evil Regardless Of Where It Is AMEN.
The Oslo Accords, "The Road Map", And Several
Other FAILED ATTEMPTS BY HUMANKIND To Allegedly
"BRING PEACE" To The Middle East Has Always, And
SHALL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO FAIL BECAUSE ONLY THE
PRINCE OF PEACE YESHUA THE HEBREW RABBI AND MY
MESSIAH IS THE ONLY 1 THAT CAN BRING TRUE AND
EVERLASTING PEACE SHALOM TO THE NATIONS OF THIS
TROUBLED, WAR-TORN, GREEDY, EVIL, COVETEOUS
WORLD WE LIVE IN AMEN. I Do Sincerely Respect
The GOOD FAITH EFFORTS Of People Like Caroline
Glick Marcel, Marcel. It Is IMPOSSIBLE TO FORCE
THE BLESSINGS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WHICH ARE
INCLUDING TRUE AND EVERLASTING SHALOM UPON ANY
NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE OR PEOPLE PAST, PRESENT
AND FUTURE UPON THOSE WHOM HARBOR EVIL IN THEIR
HEARTS. I TRULY BELIEVE MANY IN ISRAEL DESIRE
THIS SHALOM (PEACE) DESPARATELY, NO ONE EVER
TRULY WINS A WAR, THAT IS A FACT! John McCain
Declares He HATES WAR, I BELIEVE HIM BECAUSE I
TOO HATE WAR, YET IN SOME CASES WARS ARE VERY
NECESSARY AS KING DAVID DECLARED IN THE PSALMS
144, IF YOU OFFER TRUE PEACE TO YOUR ENEMIES,
AND THEY REFUSE PEACE, THEN I BELIEVE ISRAEL
HAS EVERY RIGHT TO INFLICT THE HARSHEST OF WARS
ON IT'S ENEMIES. Israel Has BY FAR The Most
Moral Courageous Military In The World, This Is
1 Of The Blessings The LORD Our God Promised On
Israel, Praise To The LORD Our God The King Of
The Universe, The LORD Of Hosts Is His Name
AMEN!!! The LORD That Brings Forth Bread FROM
The Earth, Jesus Christ Of Nazareth THE HEBREW
RABBI & My Messiah Is Forever More THE BREAD OF
LIFE AMEN. "You can't serve two masters my
deceived Timothy" Is What You Posted Marcel,
Whom Is It YOU CLAIM I SERVE??? I Do NOT Serve
Money, MONEY Is Just A SEED, If You Sow A Seed
Then You Reap A Harvest, If You EAT The Seed,
Then YOU Starve. I Am Surely NOT Starving By
THE GRACE, AGAPE' LOVE, AND MERCY OF MY ADONAI
YESHUA THE HEBREW RABBI. Whom Is "YOUR MASTER"
MARCEL, MARCEL THE ANGRY BITTER PERSON WHOM
RARELY IF EVER SEEKS TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN
TO DESTROY WITH BITTER ANGRY MALICE WORDS GOD'S
CREATION??? The Evil One Can Quote Scripture
Marcel, Marcel So I Ask YOU Sir, "WHOM IS IT
THAT YOU SERVE MARCEL? DO YOU SERVE THE EVIL
ONE BY YOUR BITTER, ANGRY, DESTRUCTIVE WORDS?
IT IS WRITTEN, "LIFE AND DEATH IS IN THE POWER
OF THE TONGUE" SO WHY DO YOU NOT SPEAK LIFE???
I Believe People Write AS THEY SPEAK, So Is
There ANYTHING POSITIVE IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU
CAN PROCLAIM MARCEL, MARCEL??? Caroline Glick
Speaks, And WRITES THE TRUTH IN LOVE, IN THE
HOPES THAT OTHERS WILL TURN FROM THEIR WICKED
WAYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH 2 CHRONICLES 7:1-15 AMEN
Do YOU Dispute This Marcel, Marcel??? I Agree
With Much That You Write Marcel, But When You
Or ANYONE ATTACKS A WOMAN, ANY WOMAN IN A
POSITION OF AUTHORITY, THAT CAUSES ME TO WONDER
WOULD YOU DO THE SAME THING TO DEBRA THE JUDGE
OF ISRAEL??? Marcel Would YOU Humble Yourself
And Serve IN THE IDF And Thus Take Orders From
A MIGHTY WOMAN OF VALOR IN THE IDF Such As
CAROLINE GLICK, SHULA COHEN, GOLDA MEIR, OR
ANY WOMAN SERVING IN THE IDF FOR ZION'S SAKE???
If You Answer YES I Declare You Are A Man Of
Honor, If You Answer NO I DECLARE YOU ARE A
HE-MOUSE WOMAN HATER LIKE YOUR MASTER SATAN.
The FIRST Bible Prophecy The LORD Our God Spoke
Is Written In Genesis 3:15, Thus Of Course The
TRUE ENEMY Satan/Lucifer/The Devil HATES WOMEN
AND ANY Male (MOUSE NOT A REAL MAN OF GOD AMEN)
THAT ATTEMPTS TO PUT WOMEN UNDER THE FOOT OF
MANKIND IS OF THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL!!! Marcel
Marcel, WHOM DO YOU SERVE??? YOUR WRITINGS HAVE
CHRONICALLY DECLARED YOU SERVE YOUR FATHER SATAN
BUT EVERYONE DESERVES THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT,
SO WHOM IS IT YOU SERVE SIR? MARCEL ARE YOU A
TRUE MAN OF GOD, OR ARE YOU A MOUSE SERVING
SATAN THUS SADLY CONDEMNING YOURSELF TO HELL?
Please Do NOT Be Offended I Am Only Seeking The
TRUTH About What Is In YOUR Heart, Mankind Looks
Upon The Outward Appearance But The LORD Our God
Looks Upon The HEART, SO WHOM IT IS YOU SERVE???
I Love You ALL And You Cannot Do Anything About
It, STAY STRONG Caroline Glick And PLEASE Never
Ever STOP Or PAUSE From Sounding The Shofar FOR
ZION'S SAKE (GENESIS 12:1-3,ISAIAH 62 AMEN :)
Thy ETERNAL Servant & Brother Forever More AMEN
Timothy Kriete Bond Servant Of Yeshua The ONLY
TRUE LOVER OF A WOMAN'S SOUL AMEN PRAISE THE
LORD OUR GOD THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE WHOM
CREATED CAROLINE GLICK MY PRECIOUS BOLD SISTER:)
Posted by Timothy Kriete FOR ISRAEL FOREVER MORE AMEN | September 8, 2008 1:22 AM
Caroline, I praise G-d for you and this honest look at what we in the U.S. are up against. You are a gift to the cause of righteousness! Honestly, many of us had pretty much given up the fight, and were waiting for judgment to fall, but the nomination of this righteous lady has breathed life back into hope for us all (except for Marcel, who lives in utterly desolate wastelands of hammers threatening to drop, and levies to break) (Really Marcel, would you have her baking cookies instead?) No one can say for sure the changes she will be able to bring about, but she sure seems like one who will try, and pray for guidance while seeking. In that, there IS hope, for eight years many prayers of the faithful have gone up, asking for the candidate of the L-rd's choosing for this election. Up until the last days before the Rep. convention, it would have been easy to give up this hope. But NO, there is always a bigger plan, and this one was carried out perfectly! The same goes for Israel, don't give up!Trust in the L-rd, and believe for H-s promised goodness!
Posted by radiantstreams | September 9, 2008 4:52 AM
Hello,
I am "SICK" and oh-so-sick and tired of the IDIOTS on the left, and there little PUPPET Barry O' trying to make it look like he is a TRUE-CHRISTIAN when all he is-- is a total "LIAR", and to further the whole story we have the media kissing his anal area at every chance that they get. Less talk just for a moment about a trully STRONG women, and I am not talking about Hil. at all. Oh how that must PEE her off, and I am just seeing her now as she, and her husband.
Well it is Nov. 04, 2008, and they have got to make a selection for the Presidential selection, and "GOOD" Hillary says well to the Sorry-A$% "LEFTY" media numbskulls "Of course I voted for OUR next President Barry O'", and then comes out Slick-Willy, and same sorry you know what reporter says Bill Clinton who did you vote for, and good-old "SLICK-WILLY" says without waiting "I voted for that sexy babe, and the old man".
Hil. comes over, and graps him by the ear, and says to him we must have a long talk when we get home, and to that Bill says, " You are actually coming to the Penthouse tonight Hil."
So what do we see here? a bunch of CRY-BABY- libs. getting there you know what handed to them on a silver-platter, and whats worst it is by a special women no less. Lord of Hosts watch over you my dear sister. Thanks for the GREAT article, and may God Almighty Bless, and keep you always.
Lord God of Isreal Bless you,
Larry D. Crumbley
bearone7777@yahoo.com
Posted by Larry D. Crumbley | September 12, 2008 5:56 AM
I know I am commenting rather late but I just read the article. It is a very well thought out article and your analysis is right on the money. I just hope that McCain wins and America avoids the darks times that will come if Obama wins.
Posted by John Nosser | October 1, 2008 4:54 AM