Posted on 05/04/2011 4:53:59 PM PDT by unseen1
The Palins were in Alabama today helping out with disaster relief in the wake of last week’s killer tornado outbreak. Via Samaritan’s Purse:
Todd Palin, four-time winner of the Iron Dog off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, along with his wife, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, joined Samaritan’s Purse volunteers to help tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday.
“I came here to work hard,” Todd said. “There’s no point in being here if you’re not going to work hard.”
After getting a safety briefing and talking with volunteers, the Palins joined a crew helping homeowner J.L. Price recover from the storm. They help haul off brush and debris, and, with the rest of the team, prayed with Mr. Price.
“It feels great to be working out here,” Sarah said. “I hope more people sign up with Samaritan’s Purse so they can be blessed like I am today.”
The Price home took a direct hit from a tornado, and sustained a lot of damage.
“It’s hard to imagine anyone surviving this,” Todd said. “What a terrifying time it must have been for them. This just really gets you.”
While going through the debris, Todd found a wooden plaque bearing the Price name and nailed it to a tree, one of the few things remaining standing on the property.
This is the third time the Palins have participated in Samaritan’s Purse relief efforts.
In December, Todd, Sarah, and daughter Bristol joined Franklin Graham for a two-day visit to Haiti. They surveyed our work with cholera patients, handed out Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts to children, and visited a shelter community Samaritan’s Purse built in the aftermath of the January earthquake.
In 2009, the governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee joined Graham to hand out food parcels to families in Alaskan villages facing hunger because of a harsh winter.
“I appreciate their willingness to bring hope to people in need,” Graham said
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Rush has been using it for a while, but it was something that came up in a conversation right after the One was elected.
I was talking to someone who noticed my “Antiobamunist On Board” bumper sticker and somehow Obamaville came up in the conversation. Didn't really think about it much until Rush made it part of his routine.
You're convinced Palin did this mostly, or partly, for positive publicity for herself. Yet one thing she does, or to be more accurate, doesn't do, is publicize to whom and how much she donates to charities, Church(es), etc. If she really wanted to be thought of as 'St Sarah' she would make sure the press was told of every cent or minute of her time that was given.
She simply did a good deed here, Now, ask her where she stands on ethanol handouts, that would be a fair question.
Unlike the political class, the Palins know how to pitch in and actually do physical labor.
Did they send out a press release to the media?
Missed this yesterday.
What a great American couple.
She’s amazing and is pouring herself out for her country.
God bless the Palins.
“I was raised not to highlight my good deeds or seek recognition for them”
I don’t know how you were raised, but I know how you turned out. You’re a deceiver.
At least ten times over the past two year you guys have called me a liar. I have always responded with this...
Prove with citations that what I post is not true and I'll leave the forum for good. Nobody has ever even tried...because when pushed to put up or shut up they shut up.
My point was clear...a photo-op is just that, regardless of the politics of the subject...and if the palinite freepers were honest about it they would say, yeah, so what? But they don’t, they twist and spin and sanctify everything palin does. That is cult of personality stuff.
You’re the deceiver’s deceiver—deceptive about your deception. Still a liar, even if you think you’re skilled at it.
I knew this as fact when you posted to me a few weeks ago, telling me not to “send you personal freepmails” and that you didn’t want to be my “secret friend.” The only reason for your veiled deceptiveness was that you were hysterical about having no response to one of my arguments.
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