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Originally Posted by gambit
Did you watch the video? He's placing his hand on her, praying that God deliver her from witchcraft and give her money to win her campaign.
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Yeah I did.
Let me explain what I mean by "sorry for her" - it is more "compassion" in the Buddhist sense than it is "empathy" or even "sympathy". In the same way that you can see someone who is clearly mentally ill in the street or on a bus muttering to themselves or cursing and feel sorry for them. You feel for their suffering, in other words, even though they themselves don't necessarily realise they are suffering.
I believe she is so utterly deluded, and convinced of her own awesomeness and invincibility, that she fails to realise that she is little more than a laughing stock now for vast swathes of the international population.
The only people who continue to put her on a pedestal seem to be those who are equally as deluded - the creationists, the rapture-believers, those who genuinely believe she is God's messenger on God's mission to take over America.
I cannot imagine that any person in their right mind, Republican or not, Christian or not, can look at the catalogue of incidents and statements that have been coming to light since her appointment as Veep candidate, in particular the "casting out of witches", and think that the country could ever be safe in her hands. Unless, of course, they are equally nuts and actually believe in witches, creationism, the Rapture, the End of Days, blah blah blah.