According to the NY Post, Elizabeth Payne, 37, claims to have had an affair with controversial preacher, Jeremiah Wright, earlier this year. Payne met Wright while working as a secretary at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas. Since the affair became public this spring Payne was fired from her job, and her husband, Fred Payne, 64, (guess she likes older men) has divorced her.

Apparently Payne was busted when her husband found e-mail correspondence between her and Wright in February. Payne claims Wright said he would leave his wife of over 20 years, Ramah, for her. The NY Post article also claims Ramah met Wright when she came to him for marriage counseling with her ex-husband. Nice. Oh yeah, one more thing, Payne is a white lady. That’s right, (punny) America’s most prominent voice of black liberation theology had a white girlfriend 30 years his junior.

Now before we rush to judgement let’s remember Rev. Wright is a member of the clergy. I think it would behoove us to treat him with the same Christian love, respect, compassion, understanding, forgiveness and grace he so often preached about from his pulpit at Trinity. We should also restrain from citing these allegations as basis for generalizations about all proponents of black liberation theology. We should learn from the way Rev. Wright always judges each person independently based on character and circumstances and not by skin color. We also shouldn’t assume that any of these allegations are true until we have concrete, verified facts to back up these claims, just like Rev. Wright would do.

Thank God Rev. Wright set such a fine example of Christian love, so we would know how to care for him in his hour of need. Thanks Rev. Wright.

Sorry I’m late. I was in St. Paul cleaning up the broken glass from that ceiling that a fine conservative woman shattered last night. I wanted to get to it before Gloria Steinem slit her wrists with it. Not because I care about Gloria Steinem, but because I’m pro-life. By the way, I’m so glad that baby woke up after the speech, so Palin could lift him up so the whole world could see his beautiful face.

Now, for the last 4 days everyone (republicans too, shame on you) was so sure Palin didn’t know what she was getting into. She wasn’t smart enough, tough enough or experienced enough. They couldn’t get enough dirt on her, so they resorted to exploiting her children and downright lying. Last night, she simply defended herself with the truth and advocated her nominee, and did so with grace, humor and style. And this morning she’s called snide, on the attack and cynical. Instead of discussing what she did say they can only discuss what topics she didn’t address (like universal healthcare, thank your lucky stars she didn’t get to that Joe Biden).

Joe Biden also mentioned that she didn’t address the economy. Uh, the breakdown of how Obama’s tax hikes will cripple the middle class, even if they’re not taxed directly, was addressing the economy.

And Obama, if you question whether John McCain “gets it” (which I believe he does) you can’t argue that Sarah Palin doesn’t. I know you’ll try though. I’ll tell you what she doesn’t “get“. It’s the same things I don’t “get”. How the value of a life is determined on a case by case basis, even outside the womb. How keeping the poor crippled in the welfare culture will help their children. Why wealth should be redistributed without regard to who earned it. Why high profile equals high experience. Yes, please explain these things to us small town moms who don’t “get it”.

And what’s this bologna about “her speech was written for her”. ALL their speeches are written for them.

And you republicans and overgrown irish pundits that still doubt her don’t “get it” either. You’re elitist sexists just like the rest of ’em. Real America gets it and Sarah Palin gets Real America.

Wasilla, Alaska may be a small town. But America is made out of and carried on the backs of Wasillas. And when all the small towns with small budgets get together we’re going to beat the stuffing out of the Upper East Side and San Francisco. By the way, why does a small budget mean easier to manage. I would suspect it could be quite the opposite.

I know it‘s scary, the thought that America might be run by the stupid, incompetent souls that keep it running day after day. The people that grow your whole grain organic bread (I said grown by not harvested by), drive the trucks that deliver the laptop you use to read the Huffington Post and we’ll be the one’s that serve your 10^th cosmo the night Obama loses this election.

I also have something to say to Bristol Palin. Welcome to motherhood, congratulations! Keep holding your head up high. All you need to worry about the next few months is preparing yourself for the best thing that will ever happen to you.