Ellington

The McCain-Palin campaign opened the floodgates when they told the media this weekend that they were about to start launching personal attacks against Barack Obama in order to "change the subject" away from the economy. In response to their (and especially Palin's) "terrorist" jabs (because Obama knows William Ayers, formerly of the Weathermen, when Obama was 8), media from national to local newspapers in Nevada are opening the doors of McCain and Palin's closets, revealing plenty. A sampling since yesterday:

L.A. Times: Keating 5 ring a bell? (5,259 new articles currently in Google News; pick one)

AP: McCain was on board of private Iran-Contra "rebel" group

L.A. Times: McCain as aviator; rest of the story

Washington Post: How John and Cindy got together

Palin lies about being a union member

And, of course, all of the Palins' loving up to the secessionist and anti-American Alaska Independence Party and that weird dude from Kenya who unleashed a "crusade" on a "witch" there before coming to the U.S. and laying hands on Palin to ward off witchcraft are back in the news.

What's so frustrating is that this didn't have to happen if McCain stuck to real issues that matter to the American people. Like the economy, health care and how to get out of Iraq as soon and wisely as possible. Tragic.

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From that Christian Science Monitor piece linked above about the Kenyan preacher: In 1988, he and his wife, Margaret, were "called by God to Kiambu," a notorious, violence-ridden suburb of Nairobi and a "ministry graveyard" for churches for years. They began six months of fervent prayer and research. Pondering the message of Eph.6:12 ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world..."), they prayed to identify the source of Kiambu's spiritual oppression, Mr. Muthee says. Their answer: the spirit of witchcraft. Their research into the community revealed that a woman called "Mama Jane" ran a "divination clinic" frequented by the town's most powerful people. After months of prayer, Muthee held a crusade that "brought about 200 people to Christ." Their church in the basement of a grocery store was dubbed "The Prayer Cave," as members set up round-the-clock intercession. Mama Jane counterattacked, he says, but eventually "the demonic influence - the 'principality' over Kiambu - was broken," and she left town.

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DonnaLadd

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2008-10-07T10:02:34-06:00

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138696

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So, is Palin going to condemn the actions of this man—she was a bit older than 8 when he rounded up a mob to run "Mama Jane" out of town? Just sayin': Mama Jane Muthee and his wife returned home to Kenya from Scotland, where he had finished his graduate studies, in 1988.[3][4] They soon felt that they were "called by God to Kiambu" and after six months of prayer, research, and "spiritual mapping," they came to believe that a witch known as "Mama Jane" was the cause of crime and spiritual oppression in the area.[2][3][4][5][6] Muthee alleged that "top government and business leaders [were] afraid to do anything without her approval," that at least one person per month would die in a car accident in front of her "divination house" (otherwise known as Emmanuel Clinic), and that she harassed his congregation.[3][4][7] Muthee made a public demand that either Mama Jane convert to Christianity or leave town, declaring, “Mama Jane either gets saved and serve the Lord, or she leaves town! There is no longer room in Kiambu for both of us!"[3] Soon after his followers began to pray that God would either save or oust Mama Jane,[3][4][7][8] three young people died in another apparent accident in front of Mama Jane's clinic, according to Muthee's account.[3][4][7] The angry townsfolk wanted to stone her in retaliation, and when the police entered Mama Jane's home to intervene, they were apparently startled by what they believed to be a demon and shot her pet python to death.[3][4][6][7][8] Mama Jane was then questioned by police, after which she left town.[3][4][8] Since then, Muthee has frequently referred to this event as an example of successful spiritual warfare.[2][3][6][8] The event was depicted in two videos by George Otis, Jr.,[9][10] in which Muthee claimed that the crime rate in Kiambu dropped drastically after Mama Jane left.[2][3][5][7][11][12] However, Workgroup "Back to the Bible," headed by Pastor Rien van de Kraats of Kamperland, Netherlands, found no police reports or any other sources that backed up this claim.[12] (Wikipedia)

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DonnaLadd

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2008-10-07T10:08:35-06:00

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Since then, Muthee has frequently referred to this event as an example of successful spiritual warfare.[2][3][6][8] Actually, I think that this is an example of spiritual abuse. If they believed that this woman was a witch who was causing problems, and if they really believed in the power of God, they would have stopped at prayer and intercession and let God do the rest. Chasing a woman out of town and shooting her pet is not spiritual - it's physical, which goes against Ephesians 6:12.

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LatashaWillis

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2008-10-07T10:54:53-06:00