A chilling video from Wasilla by Max Blumenthal that helps explain more deeply how Palin is a product of some of the most extreme forms of Christianism that exist. I also learned a new nugget from local pastor, Howard Bess. He claims that Palin's church took over the board of Mat-Su Medical Center, the hospital that Palin was absolutely determined to have her fifth child in, even though her water had already broken on a trip in Texas:

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