This is slightly old school, but oh well

I was assigned to transcribe a Sarah Palin interview. Here you go.


SARAH PALIN SEZ...

Charles Gibson asks Sarah Palin if the Iraq War is a holy war.

Q: You said recently in your old church: "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?

A: You know, I don't if that was my exact quote--

Q: That's your exact words.

A: --But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words, when he said--first he suggested, "Never presume to know what God's will is." and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words, but what Abraham Lincoln had said and that's a repeat in my comments was, 'let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side." That's what that comment was all about Charlie.

Q: I take your point about Lincoln's words, but you went on and said "There is a plan, and it is God's plan."

A: I believe there is a plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good. I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given, Charlie, and I believe that those are the rights to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That in my world view is a grand--

Q: But--

A: -- the grand plan.

Q: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?

Q: I don't know if the task is from God, Charlie, what I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made what he decided to do, in serving for the right reasons, is serving something greater than self, and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer.

your long time curse hurts.

Good personal facts get meatier through re-evaluation, like the fact that, even though I mostly try to steer clear of him, Bob Dylan manages to break into me and face myself i.e. cry. I really avoid him, but Pandora sends him knocking on my door, or Dave makes me a cd where he purposely puts bob dylan on it even when i warn him not to. Then, as I'm listening critically to his voice pressed against his teeth and his musical saw-like pitch, and even as i'm thinking all these critical things i also notice that I'm crying. he scares me to death.

So why does he freak me out so much? You know when you don't want to do something good for you because you know it'll change the way your life is going? It's a loss of innocence. that's how I feel about going through a bob dylan phase. I know it'll happen, but i'm afraid of what it will do to me as a musician. i.e. devastated.
I don't ever wish I was less sensitive to really excellent art, but it can be hard when it really hurts you down to the bed, crying.
i should just do it. new year's resolution: deal with bob dylan.

Devoting oneself to art feels like trying to reinvent different ways to put oneself through puberty.