Remember during the Clinton administration, when we were advised by Bubba of his fantasy memories about church burnings that occurred in the South? The implication of course was an only racist Republicans could do something so terrible.
Well, now, let’s look at the news coming out of Anchorage this morning:
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA —Denver Post- Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church has been badly damaged in an arson fire.
Damages to the Wasilla Bible Church were estimated at $1 million, authorities said today. No one was injured in the fire, which was intentionally set while people, including two children, were inside.
“This fire is definitely suspicious,” said Central Mat-Su Fire Chief James Steele.
Pastor Larry Kroon declined to say if the Friday night blaze was politically based or directed at Palin, the failed Republican vice presidential candidate. He also declined to say whether the church has received any recent threats.
“There are so many variables,” he said. “I don’t want to comment in that direction.” Palin stopped by the church this morning. Her spokesman, Bill McAllister, said in a statement that Palin told an assistant pastor she apologizes if the fire was connected to the “undeserved negative attention” the church has received since she became the vice presidential candidate on Aug. 29.
Gee, what do you suppose we should take from this?
My own take-away; The legendary tolerance of the left strikes again.
Doubtless, we will have the like of John McCain telling us about how that Coke bottle filled with gasoline just spontaneously combusted. If you’re watching closely, you may get the idea I’m a little annoyed here. this is precisely the mentality that I was talking about in my John McCain post of earlier today.
I could be wrong, but I have every reason to believe that this fire was politically motivated. The kind of people who would do this… these are the kind of mental midgets, that Mr. McCain would have us getting along with.
And let’s be honest, here; and do a little role reversal; If this was the church of Jerry Wright, where Obama supposedly sat and listened for 20 years to the preaching but never knew of Wright’s racist tendencies, we have headlines all over the place this morning. We’d see all the nets doing their wall to wall number, and the whole thing would be blamed on what they would call racist conservatives… extreme right-wingers, etc. As it is, I will guarantee you this is the first most of you will have heard of it.
Agreement: Right Wing News, Gateway Pundit, who has video, and Powerline, who says correctly:
“Given the insane hatred that Democrats directed toward Palin during the recent campaign, it would be easy to jump to the conclusion that the arson is the work of a liberal Democrat.”
No kidding. At this point I have every reason to think that’s what’s going on here and no reason to think otherwise.
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