Burning down the House (of God)

The church that Palin attends in Wasilla suffered a terrible fire last night but thankfully no one was hurt. Watertiger already has the definitive post on this, and do click over for the pictures, but it's worth noting that Sarah's immediate reaction was to make it all about her.

"Gov. Palin stopped by the church this morning, and she told an assistant pastor that she apologizes if the incident is in any way connected to the undeserved negative attention the church has received since she became a vice presidential candidate on Aug. 29.

Meanwhile, I hear the boys at Powerslime are already blaming it on some imaginary enraged Democrat. That doesn't even make sense. We won the election. Why should we be pissed? It would seem more likely to be some crazed fundie who was pissed off at God for not answering their prayers and making their Sarah the savior of DC.

In fact, if we're going to speculate, Palin herself, attention addict that she is, has more motive than most to be behind any arson attempt. She hasn't made the national news in some time now and suddenly -- there she is again. Just saying...

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