Sarah Palin to have dinner with Rev. Billy Graham
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Sarah Palin is sitting down for Sunday dinner with the Rev. Billy Graham a day before a planned stop on her book tour in eastern North Carolina.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee was scheduled to fly into Asheville Sunday afternoon and then go to Billy Graham's mountaintop home in Montreat for dinner, said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for Graham's son Franklin.
Franklin Graham issued the invitation to Palin.
"He just saw that she was going to be in the area and he said to come by," Blume told The Charlotte Observer.
The elder Graham has never met Palin, who is scheduled to stop at Fort Bragg on Monday to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
Franklin Graham got to know Palin early this year in Alaska. She accompanied him as Samaritan's Purse, a Boone-based international relief agency he heads, delivered 44,000 pounds of groceries to Alaskan families who had been hit by a harsh winter in villages along the frozen Yukon River.
Samaritan's Purse has an office in Alaska, and Franklin Graham owns a cabin in the state. Graham also leads the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which his father founded decades ago.
Was MLK a Baptist minister? Most assuredly, he was. All of your verbal gymnastics do not change the facts. Did MLK incorporate his religious views into his struggle for civil rights? Most assuredly, he did. You can fabricate lies to yourself all that you want, but it doesn't change history.
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.'
"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
Sounds like a Christian minister engaged in politics to me.
The right-wing-nuts are using the Bible to spread their hatred and even promote the murder of Obama with their newest bumper-sticker, which reads: "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8", which says, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." The line that follows reads: "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow". When liberals called for Bush and Cheney to be prosecuted for their war crimes, conservatives called us traitors, but when conservatives call for the murder of the president, they call it patriotism. I would hope that neither Sarah nor Billy sports that bumper sticker, but I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut that many of their zealot followers do. They're no less than Christo-terrorists.
There must be something in leftist thought that bends it toward hatred and inhumanity, whether its on the grand scale like Mao and the Khymer Rouge, or on a small scale like the unceasing smears about Sarah Palin. Personally, liberty and freedom have a better record for treating people well - and those are virtues both Palin and Graham have shown over and over again.
So you would have disqualified MLK as a political leader? The solution to segregation had to be political in nature, as it meant creating and enforcing new laws.
President Carter has also ministered, and taught Sunday School in the Baptist church. I didn't care for Carter, but I never disqualified him. Would you?
Or are you just against what you deem as right wing ministers?
Billy Graham is actually a registered Democrat. He has not pushed a political agenda since the civil rights protests, when he stood strongly against segregation, and even put up bail money for another minister, Martin Luther King Jr. He has ministered to every president from Truman to Obama. His life isn't politics, it's spreading God's word.
The Graham charities and ministries are world renowned.
While I am not a Christian, I am impressed by a man who once preached to a million people at one time, in Korea. Gallup did a poll of the most admired men of the 20th Century and Billy Graham was number 7.
Maybe you have Billy Graham, a true American legend, confused with some other evangelist. Or maybe yours is just a knee jerk reaction to a Christian minister. That would be sad that you are so prejudiced.
Maybe she should have asked Billy Graham if God would support a capitalist nation in the first place. Christianity and capitalism are diametrically opposed. Why would God choose a nation that made money, the love of which He said was the root of all evil, to be His chosen nation?!
The problem with Palin is she inserted her profanity into both.
Yes The Grahams have done charity work, but they are not elected to, nor are they constitutionally charged to govern. They quietly pushed Palin to govern as if she were some sort of Christian beauty queen. Now we know it was them.
Sarah Palin swore to us as electors, and to our Constitution, to be our Governor. Then she quit to sell this book to make lots of money. That is as trite as she and her hype are.
If you just wait a year you'll be able to heat your cabin with all the wasted Rogues cause she's going to disappoint more than Alaska.
The Grahams should be ashamed of her.
I know that a lot of people don't like Sarah Palin, but what do you have against Billy Graham? Is it that he's a Christian minister? He and his son, Franklin, have done a lot of good in the world. Your comment puzzles me.
Well, made somewhere.