Palin's rise is part of God's Plan..'cos she's pretty sure she's Esther..

[HipChick]

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-as-queen-esther-201010

Sarah Palin has often suggested that she believes her rise to power is divinely ordained. She is, moreover, the only contemporary American politician whose admirers openly describe her as a modern-day version of a biblical character

A 2008 e-mail obtained exclusively by Vanity Fair, which appears in full below (with its original spelling and punctuation), offers the clearest evidence yet made public of how seriously Palin and her advisers take this analogy. The e-mail was written by Lou Engle, a right-wing pastor and political activist who founded a movement known as the Call, which has coordinated widespread prayer and fasting to protest health-care reform and same-sex marriage. Of the latter, he has said, “What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.” Engle’s e-mail was sent to Palin as a last-minute exhortation just before she took the stage for her vice-presidential debate against Joseph Biden on October 2, 2008. It is an extraordinary document, referring to legalized abortions as a “holocaust,” and casting Engle in the role of Mordecai to Palin’s Esther. The message was handled by Palin’s advisers with a gravity (subject line: “URGENT Fwd: From Lou Engle – Urgent for Sarah to read...”) that suggests it was a message they knew Palin would want to see

Dear Sarah,

Many thousands are fasting and praying for you. I know you’ve heard it, but I believe this is an Esther moment in your life. Esther hid her identity until Mordecai challenged her to risk everything for such a time as this. Your identity is “Sarah Barracuda”. Esther removed corruption from the Persian government and Haman fell. She didn’t have experience, she had grace and favor. Sarah, don’t hide your identity tonight. There will be questions given to you that you don’t know, and I have been weeping over you. I believe the Lord would have you be real. If they ask you a question that you don’t know, don’t be ashamed to say: “I don’t have the experience of 30 years of politics like Senator Biden, but what I have is character, truth, and integrity, and I haven’t been seduced by 30 years of political and moral compromise like these men in DC. I believe America is not looking for more knowledge, they are looking for more character and more truth, and that is who I am. I refuse the politics of neutrality. I will stand for the family, I will stand on foundations of truth and this nation will be better for it.

Sarah I’m sure you’re doing this, but take a moment to still yourself before the Lord. The Lord is a shield about you. To those who have no strength, the Lord will show Himself powerful.

Sarah, I could be wrong, but I’ve been praying for five years for an Esther, with dreams of being a Mordecai to that Esther. I believe you’re the one and I think you’re even wearing a life band. Tonight don’t be ashamed to plead for the life of the unborn and all the wounded woman who have gone through this holocaust. You can throw this email away, but I have 50 young people fasting and praying day and night who are shouting tonight: “Grace, grace to you!”

We love you,
Lou Engle

[livetohike]

1. Maybe their Esther will ask them to drink the kool aid

Oh my, there are some true whackos out there.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Lou Engle is a fomenter of violence:

Google him:

Engle's involvement in organizing TheCall Uganda was mired in controversy from the very beginning given his long history of what Waymon Hudson considers to be violent anti-gay and anti-abortion rhetoric and preaching. At past TheCall rallies, like the one in support of Proposition 8 in California, Engle called homosexuality a "spirit of lawlessness" and called for "martyrs" to become "God's Avengers of Blood" to stop the "homosexual agenda" at all cost.<6>

[tularetom]

4. How long before Lou Engle gets caught with a "rent boy"?

Seems to me like he really doth protest an awful lot.

[Beartracks]

3. And they said the left called Obama "messiah"...

... when the only people I ever heard call him that were right-wingers -- derisively, of course.

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[HillbillyBob]

5. Crazy and evil .....who knew?

nt

[Beartracks]

6. And they said the left called Obama "messiah"...

... when the only people I ever heard call him that were right-wingers -- derisively, of course.

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[theophilus]

7. Could be. Behold a "Palin" horse? Revelation. Seems to fit. n/t

[tanyev]

8. Then God's plan was to have Barack Obama in the White House.

Cause Sarah really sealed that deal.

[asjr]

9. It must be Esther the Jester she is referring to.

[thecrow]

10. But... I didn't hear her say that to Biden!

She said "Can I call you Joe?"

Engle needs to fast and weep some more... maybe that's it.

[noel711]

11. Those ignorami (plural of ignoramus?) make up shit..

they manipulate ancient scripture to fit their agenda,
and the huddled masses, who themselves don't know any better,
swallow that swill whole.

Esther was a racial minority in Babylon after the destruction and exile of Israel.
The Jews didn't assimilate with the Persians. They were not happy..
(Is Palin a racial minority held in bondage in a foreign country?)

Persian King Ahassuerus disposed of his wife because she wouldn't play
games with his political allies. So he called for a beauty contest of all
the virgins in the kingdom, and during the bathing suit portion of the
pageant, the Jewish Esther caught his eye. (Well maybe that part is Palinish...)

He crowned her queen, how convenient, not knowing her ethnic background.
She became a concubine to him, a pagan ruler.
Her uncle Mordecai reminded her that perhaps your purpose is to be in the power
chambers.

She functioned as a kind of spy, ferreting out plots to overthrow the king.
Esther agreed to represent her people, but she was very quiet,
asked for nothing, and was an obedient, and respectful concubine.
You know, the way women are supposed to be according to teabaggers...
The racist Haman was bent on rubbing out the Jews.
When Esther finally approached the king with her request, it was with much bowing and scraping
and begging and crying...he gave in, and protected she... and her people.
and Haman did the gallows dance...

Now, how this is a parallel to that loud mouth idiot out of Alaska?
Somehow God chose her for ....what?
The word 'god' doesn't appear once in this ancient fable, not once.

These idiots will project themselves into anything that gets them attention.
Sarah Palin certainly isn't a Jewish queen, and IMHO neither is she
an example of a true Christian. Palin worships at the altar of celebrity.

[Flubadubya]

12. Please don't insult my favorite aunt...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vbrMa5TSSdY/SMPg_rKe6dI/AAAAAAAACI4/ywiEM0LReRg/s400/Sanford-Aunt+Esther.jpg

Those fish-eyed old fools!

[malaise]

13. Aunt Ester?

Wasn't she black?? :evilgrin:

[FSogol]

14. I forget, was Esther a quitter also?

:shrug:

[Gin]

15. 12 years of catholic school but I never studied the bible....all

these references are ????? to me

[VioletLake]

16. Esther the Molester, perhaps.

As in "to bother, interfere with, or annoy".