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Sarah Palin has a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes: God uses them.

When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs on her hand to remember them, she said:

“I didn’t really have a good answer, as so often — is me…But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I’ll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m in good company.’”

The line alluded to by Mrs. Palin:

“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.”

Was Isaiah referring to permanent marker, or something more drastic?

Before invoking God, Palin tried to explain the hand notes by calling them “a poor man’s teleprompter.” Earlier in her speech before Ohio Right to Life, she claimed that she really got the idea from her father, a schoolteacher, who would “read the palm of his hand to see what, you know, was on tap first for the curriculum the next day.”

Palin also repeated the God story in Calgary on Saturday, after Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin joked about her hand notes during a question-and-answer session. One audience member yelled out, “Atta girl!”