--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 8 Reasons Sarah Palin is More Qualified than Barack Obama > > by Seth Grahame-Smith <snip> > Yes, Sarah admitted that she hadn't paid much attention to > the war in Iraq, but she knew enough to rightly call it a > "task from God."
This is one of many out-of-context quotes that's being used against Palin. What she actually said to the group she was speaking to was that they should pray "that our national leaders are sending them [her son's unit, which is about to go to Iraq] out on a task that is from God, that's what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan." In other words, she was *not* asserting that she or anyone else knows what "God's plan" is, contrary to Grahame-Smith's demeaning interpretation. In fact, she was saying precisely the opposite: that we *don't* know, and all we can do is pray that what we're doing is according to that plan. Or, in secular terms: "Boy, I hope we're doing the right thing here."
