{"id":320,"date":"2008-09-25T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/09\/sarah-palin-the-florida-israel.html"},"modified":"2008-09-25T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:58:19","slug":"sarah-palin-the-florida-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/09\/sarah-palin-the-florida-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"This Video May Hurt with the Israelite Vote in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jl4HIc-yfgM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jl4HIc-yfgM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>This is Bishop Thomas Muthee of the Wasilla Assembly of God church in 2005. Palin no longer attended the church regularly but was there that day (and is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/09\/tough-questions-for-sarah-pali.html\">prayed over here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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&#8217;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&#8217;s what we are waiting for. That&#8217;s part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the &#8212; you know &#8212; if you look at the Israelites, that&#8217;s how they work. And that&#8217;s how they are, even today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how this will go over in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/09\/phew-florida-in-play-for-obama.html\">condo communities.<\/a>(Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/palin-muthee--1.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Bishop Thomas Muthee of the Wasilla Assembly of God church in 2005. Palin no longer attended the church regularly but was there that day (and is prayed over here) &#8220;The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. 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