# If McCain loses, whose fault is it? THE WITCHES!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856 "2008-10-21T04:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/1 "2008-10-21T04:37:47Z")
[A friend pointed out this link.](http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G&label=&paging=all) Once you’ve read it, I’m sure you’ll agree that any further comment from me is unnecessary. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/2 "2008-10-21T05:30:44Z")
That is extremely serious. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/3 "2008-10-21T05:38:35Z")
I’m here to tell you the ultra top secret hush hush mystical surefire proof against witchcraft and spells. Step 1: Point at the witch or sorcerer. Step 2: Laugh ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/4 "2008-10-21T05:44:28Z")
I’m confused. I’ve read several places that Sarah Palin is “God’s Anointed” to take the White House and deliver the country from the Forces of Darkness. Doesn’t an anointing by the Almighty trump a witch’s curse? Or could these people be just a teensy bit afraid that the divinity they’re praying to might not be the Big Kahuna after all? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/5 "2008-10-21T05:49:06Z")
Don’t blame us if he loses! Unless you want him to lose…then it was all us. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/6 "2008-10-21T05:50:30Z")
Please. You think we’re using our powers for something as puny as an election affecting a single area of land on one planet? We’re plotting to take out **Skald the Rhymer** , bitches. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/7 "2008-10-21T06:52:09Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > That is extremely serious. No. It’s super, super serial is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/8 "2008-10-21T07:02:26Z")
The best part: [QUOTE=from the link in the OP] Also, Dick Morris of Fox News was sent to Kenya to help Odinga run his campaign! I find that unbelievable. [/quote] The rest doesn’t raise a single eyebrow. But the idea that FOX News could be involved…whoa. That just couldn’t possibly be true. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/9 "2008-10-21T07:06:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I’m here to tell you the ultra top secret hush hush mystical surefire proof against witchcraft and spells. Does this work against people who (apparently) show real concern about what witches are allegedly doing? Because that would be good. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/10 "2008-10-21T07:26:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Does this work against people who (apparently) show real concern about what witches are allegedly doing? Because that would be good. _sigh_ OK, I’m breaking “the code” and getting myself into a lot of trouble, but _The Simpsons_ has been trying to clue people in for a while now and as they say; you can shout the secrets of the universe from the rooftops, and only those who know will understand. This method is proof against all manner of things. It’s the ultimate act of thaumaturgy. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/11 "2008-10-21T07:36:13Z")
Well, Palin’s preacher has experience fighting witches, so this shouldn’t be a problem. [Oh wait. . .](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3204292/False-claims-exposed-of-Kenyan-pastor-who-protected-Sarah-Palin-from-witches.html) > [@](#): > > A Kenyan pastor who prayed to protect Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin from witches is being criticized at home after it emerged that his chief claim to power - that he forced an evil, spell-casting woman from town - was false. > > Bishop Thomas Muthee staked his early reputation in the town of Kiambu on boasts that he banished a witch named Mama Jane, whom he blamed for crime, traffic accidents and public drunkenness in town. Once she fled, Muthee claimed, her spell was broken and peace returned. > > In fact, Mama Jane never left. She is a pastor just down the road from Muthee’s Word of Faith Church. > > “Muthee was saying that this was a place of witch doctors - where do you see the witch?” said Mama Jane, whose real name is Jane Njenga. Uh, oh. (And WTH is it with Kenyans this year? They really seem to be coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden. I can understand a connection to Obama, but _Palin?_ That don’t make no sense. 😕 ) ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/12 "2008-10-21T07:40:06Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I’m confused. I’ve read several places that Sarah Palin is “God’s Anointed” to take the White House and deliver the country from the Forces of Darkness. Doesn’t an anointing by the Almighty trump a witch’s curse? > > Or could these people be just a teensy bit afraid that the divinity they’re praying to might not be the Big Kahuna after all? I think they are afraid that God is a big pussy and Satan would whip His ass in a fair fight. I mean, [does this look like a fair match-up to you?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Southpark_ep108_2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/13 "2008-10-21T07:48:10Z")
[Are we sure this _isn’t_ the real Sarah Palin?](http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palinsuccubusrn1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/14 "2008-10-21T07:59:15Z")
I’ll get my large wooden scales and a duck and nip right on down to Kenya to take care of this. Of course, then there was [this](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7649420.stm). ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/15 "2008-10-21T08:14:30Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Are we sure this _isn’t_ the real Sarah Palin?](http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palinsuccubusrn1.jpg) Aren’t you supposed to follow the two link rule for that? You should also draw a pentagram around each link too, just in case. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/16 "2008-10-21T09:03:56Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Are we sure this _isn’t_ the real Sarah Palin?](http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=palinsuccubusrn1.jpg) All right! I asked for one of those after I saw the one of whats-her-face from Minnesota! Edit: Michele Bachmann ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/17 "2008-10-21T09:37:24Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > [A friend pointed out this link.](http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G&label=&paging=all) > > Once you’ve read it, I’m sure you’ll agree that any further comment from me is unnecessary. Articles like that make me wonder if if the other civlized societies are whacky or if its just us? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/18 "2008-10-21T12:25:36Z")
That zany, whacky cousin Odinga! ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/19 "2008-10-21T13:26:57Z")
> [@](#): > > PRAY AND COVER MCCAIN AND PALIN WITH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST I dunno. Seems like the sort of thing that could get you arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856/20 "2008-10-21T13:37:30Z")
I like that the guy sort of provides citations at the end. > [@](#): > > I read a portion of “Obama Nation” book and looked at several websites and found most of this information to be true, all except the curses part, of course… Well, if a portion of a book and some websites said it, it _must_ be true. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mccain-loses-whose-fault-is-it-the-witches/468856.md?page=2)