{"id":195,"date":"2008-10-11T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-puny-antics-of-sarah-palin.html"},"modified":"2008-10-11T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:58:02","slug":"the-puny-antics-of-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-puny-antics-of-sarah-palin.html","title":{"rendered":"The Puny Antics of Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/Newsmaker_Palin_AKCM502_.JPG&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/2008\/03\/whos_tougher_go.html&amp;h=512&amp;w=387&amp;sz=41&amp;hl=en&amp;start=15&amp;usg=__hZdcz3ZMyFuVi5RAhu6scL8DfxM=&amp;tbnid=DcjZnYC3ORJs8M:&amp;tbnh=131&amp;tbnw=99&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dpalin%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:DcjZnYC3ORJs8M:blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/Newsmaker_Palin_AKCM502_.JPG\" width=\"99\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><span><font color=\"#000000\">&#8220;Gov Palin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/11trooper.html?_r=1&amp;em&amp;oref=slogin\">extracurricular efforts on behalf of her family <\/a>probably <\/font><span>stretch ethical boundaries<\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> but they are so inconsequential versus the enormous need for leadership our country now faces.&nbsp; To fault her for these efforts to avenge her family name misses the larger need:&nbsp; She operates on a pretty puny scale.&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><font color=\"#000000\">We need leaders to rise to a greater horizon and she is sadly incapable of that.&nbsp; How often did the people of Yahweh miss that same moment?&nbsp; I feel like we are still down in the valley right now worshiping the <span><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Golden Calf<\/span><\/span> <\/font><span>(which happens to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu\/lectionary\/APentecost\/aProper23.htm\">well-time lectionary this Sunday<\/a>)<\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> and we await our Moses to deliver us once again.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gov Palin&#8217;s extracurricular efforts on behalf of her family probably stretch ethical boundaries but they are so inconsequential versus the enormous need for leadership our country now faces.&nbsp; To fault her for these efforts to avenge her family name misses the larger need:&nbsp; She operates on a pretty puny scale.&nbsp; We need leaders to rise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-08"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Puny Antics of Sarah Palin - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-puny-antics-of-sarah-palin.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Puny Antics of Sarah Palin - Progressive Revival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Gov Palin&#8217;s extracurricular efforts on behalf of her family probably stretch ethical boundaries but they are so inconsequential versus the enormous need for leadership our country now faces.&nbsp; 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